AncientMariner 0 Report post Posted January 26, 2009 Love this one. Oops should be text 21 in title. Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.3.21 tvam asya lokasya vibho rirakṣiṣur gṛhe 'vatīrṇo 'si mamākhileśvara rājanya-saḿjñāsura-koṭi-yūthapair nirvyūhyamānā nihaniṣyase camūḥ SYNONYMS tvam — Your Lordship; asya — of this world; lokasya — especially of this martya-loka, the planet earth; vibho — O Supreme; rirakṣiṣuḥ — desiring protection (from the disturbance of the asuras); gṛhe — in this house; avatīrṇaḥ asi — have now appeared; mama — my; akhila-īśvara — although You are the proprietor of the entire creation; rājanya-saḿjña-asura-koṭi-yūtha-paiḥ — with millions of demons and their followers in the roles of politicians and kings; nirvyūhyamānāḥ — which are moving here and there all over the world; nihaniṣyase — will kill; camūḥ — the armies, paraphernalia, soldiers and retinues. TRANSLATION O my Lord, proprietor of all creation, You have now appeared in my house, desiring to protect this world. I am sure that You will kill all the armies that are moving all over the world under the leadership of politicians who are dressed as kṣatriya rulers but who are factually demons. They must be killed by You for the protection of the innocent public. PURPORT Kṛṣṇa appears in this world for two purposes, paritrāṇāya sādhūnāḿ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām: [Bg. 4.8] to protect the innocent, religious devotees of the Lord and to annihilate all the uneducated, uncultured asuras, who unnecessarily bark like dogs and fight among themselves for political power. It is said, kali-kāle nāma-rūpe kṛṣṇa avatāra. The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement is also an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa in the form of the holy name (nāma-rūpe). Every one of us who is actually afraid of the asuric rulers and politicians must welcome this incarnation of Kṛṣṇa: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Then we will surely be protected from the harassment of asuric rulers. At the present moment these rulers are so powerful that by hook or by crook they capture the highest posts in government and harass countless numbers of people on the plea of national security or some emergency. Then again, one asura defeats another asura, but the public continues to suffer. Therefore the entire world is in a precarious condition, and the only hope is this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. Lord Nṛsiḿhadeva appeared when Prahlāda was excessively harassed by his asuric father. Because of such asuric fathers — that is, the ruling politicians — it is very difficult to press forward the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, but because Kṛṣṇa has now appeared in His holy name through this movement, we can hope that these asuric fathers will be annihilated and the kingdom of God established all over the world. The entire world is now full of many asuras in the guise of politicians, gurus, sādhus, yogīs and incarnations, and they are misleading the general public away from Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which can offer true benefit to human society. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mahak 0 Report post Posted January 27, 2009 Haribol. This is Srila Prabhupada's closing arguement about the nature of the futility to co-exist with "that which is not (maya)". It is futile. Even though some may be a bit relieved that the supre-thieves are now awaiting trial from a less powerful position, the solution may, as usual in this realm, worse than the problem itself. The 80s rock group, the police, had an excellent song, "There is no political solution, we are spirits in the material world". Great group, great song. So, at the end of his appearance, the end of his work on Srimad Bhagavatam, these early chapters of tenth canto, he gives us his closing arguement. "Every one of us who is actually afraid of the asuric rulers and politicians must welcome this incarnation of Kṛṣṇa: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Then we will surely be protected from the harassment of asuric rulers. At the present moment these rulers are so powerful that by hook or by crook they capture the highest posts in government and harass countless numbers of people on the plea of national security or some emergency. Then again, one asura defeats another asura, but the public continues to suffer. Therefore the entire world is in a precarious condition, and the only hope is this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement." We continue to suffer, even the Obama victors, because the problems arer beyond all solution, and the solution is just more oppression. We are fish flopping on the concrete walkway, hook just yanked out of our mouth. A kid may take compassion, and pet us, talk to us, even take us home to love and cherish, but all we really need is to have a big wave come and take us home, back to ocean, where we are in out environment. Srila Prabhupada comes from our true environment, demonstrating the reality (thus he is ACARYA), and we may FOLLOW him, or flop around, hopeful for a kid to talk softly, pet us, take us home. hare krsna from the netherlands (the entire world, not just copenhagen), mahaksadasa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
