[world-vedic] Dating Buddha Again---of different Kali age.

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SB 2.7.37 T Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions

 

 

deva-dvisam nigama-vartmani nisthitanam

purbhir mayena vihitabhir adrsya-turbhih

lokan ghnatam mati-vimoham atipralobham

vesam vidhaya bahu bhasyata aupadharmyam

SYNONYMS

deva-dvisam--of those who were envious of the devotees of the Lord;

nigama--the Vedas; vartmani--on the path of; nisthitanam--of the well

situated; purbhih--by rockets; mayena--made by the great scientist Maya;

vihitabhih--made by; adrsya-turbhih--unseen in the sky; lokan--the different

planets; ghnatam--of the killers; mati-vimoham--bewilderment of the mind;

atipralobham--very attractive; vesam--dress; vidhaya--having done so; bahu

bhasyate--will talk very much; aupadharmyam--subreligious principles.

 

TRANSLATION

When the atheists, after being well versed in the Vedic scientific

knowledge, annihilate inhabitants of different planets, flying unseen in the

sky on well-built rockets prepared by the great scientist Maya, the Lord

will bewilder their minds by dressing Himself attractively as Buddha and

will preach on subreligious principles.

 

PURPORT

This incarnation of Lord Buddha is not the same Buddha incarnation we

have in the present history of mankind. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, the

Buddha incarnation mentioned in this verse appeared in a different Kali age.

In the duration of life of one Manu there are more than seventy-two

Kali-yugas, and in one of them the particular type of Buddha mentioned here

would appear. Lord Buddha incarnates at a time when the people are most

materialistic and preaches common-sense religious principles. Such ahimsa is

not a religious principle itself, but it is an important quality for persons

who are actually religious. It is a common-sense religion because one is

advised to do no harm to any other animal or living being because such

harmful actions are equally harmful to he who does the harm. But before

learning these principles of nonviolence one has to learn two other

principles, namely to be humble and to be prideless. Unless one is humble

and prideless, one cannot be harmless and nonviolent. And after being

nonviolent one has to learn tolerance and simplicity of living. One must

offer respects to the great religious preachers and spiritual leaders and

also train the senses for controlled action, learning to be unattached to

family and home, and enacting devotional service to the Lord, etc. At the

ultimate stage one has to accept the Lord and become His devotee; otherwise

there is no religion. In religious principles there must be God in the

center; otherwise simple moral instructions are merely subreligious

principles, generally known as upadharma, or nearness to religious

principles.