Lord. Patanjalis Yogasutras introduce Ishvara, the Lord, as a special kind of Purusha untouched or unaffected by sufferring, action or karmas. Ishvara is denoted by the symbol Om. Other Darshanas (see Darshana ) or philosophical systems postulate the Lord as the cause of right knowledge, creation and destruction)

Lord; God.

("ruler"): the Lord; referring either to the Creator (see Brahma) or, in Patanjali's yoga-darshana, to a special transcendental Self (purusha)

Ishvara is meant to be a wide open system that uses several modules to control several services, among apache and postfix etc. Futher description will be added as soon as this project is out of planning and in pre-alpha.

a controller. Krishna is parameshvara, the supreme controller.