Matali is said to be the charioteer of Lord Indra, as per the Puranas. Matali was sent to convey Yayati to heaven, when Indra invited him there. The Padma Purana relates a philosophical conversation that took place between the king and Matali, in which the imperfection of all corporal existence and the incomplete felicity of every condition of life are discussed. These attributes even belong to the gods themselves, for they are affected with disease, subject to death, disgraced by the passions of lust and anger, and are consequently instances of imperfection and of misery. Various degrees of vice are then described, and their prevention or expiations are declared to be the worship of Lord Shiva or Vishnu, between whom there is no difference.

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