[world-vedic] Buddha Destruction:Beginning of end for Taliban

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Ajay Kaul's article has got a valid point.

 

Infact Lord Buddha is a saktyavesa avatara (a devoteee especially empowered

by Lord Krsna)--so there is enough evidence to say they brought about their

own destruction by considering the deity of Lord Buddha as ordinary stone

statue.

 

Caitanya Caritamrta (His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

Antya 3.164 T The Glories of Srila Haridasa Thakura

mahantera apamana ye desa-grame haya

eka janara dose saba desa ujadaya

SYNONYMS

mahantera--of persons who are highly advanced in spiritual life;

apamana--disrespect; ye desa-grame--in which country or village; haya--is;

eka janara--of one man; dose--for the fault; saba desa--the whole country;

ujadaya--becomes afflicted.

TRANSLATION

Wherever an advanced devotee is insulted, for one man's fault the ENTIRE

town or place is afflicted.

 

Srimad Bhagavatam (His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada) B

1.15.10 P

The Pandavas Retire Timely

Queen Draupadi had a beautiful bunch of hair which was sanctified in the

ceremonial function of Rajasuya-yajna. But when she was lost in a bet,

Duhsasana touched her glorified hair to insult her. Draupadi then fell down

at the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, and Lord Krsna decided that all the wives

of Duhsasana and company should have their hair loosened as a result of the

Battle of Kuruksetra. Thus after the Battle of Kuruksetra, after all the

sons and grandsons of Dhrtarastra died in battle, all the wives of the

family were obliged to loosen their hair as widows. In other words, all the

wives of the Kuru family became widows because of Duhsasana's insulting a

great devotee of the Lord. The Lord can tolerate insults upon Himself by any

miscreant because the father tolerates even insults from the son. But He

never tolerates insults upon His devotees. By insulting a great soul, one

has to forego all the results of pious acts and benedictions also.

 

 

SB 9.8.11( His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) The Sons

of Sagara Meet Lord Kapiladeva

By the influence of Indra, the King of heaven, the sons of Sagara had

lost their intelligence and disrespected a great personality. Consequently,

fire emanated from their own bodies, and they were immediately burned to

ashes.

 

SB 9.8.11 P

The material body is a combination of earth, water, fire, air and ether.

There is already fire within the body, and our practical experience is that

the heat of this fire sometimes increases and sometimes decreases. The fire

within the bodies of the sons of Sagara Maharaja became so much hotter that

all of them burned to ashes. The fire's increased heat was due to their

misbehavior toward a great personality. Such misbehavior is called

mahad-vyatikrama. They were killed by the fire of their own bodies because

of insulting a great personality.

 

SB 4.9.23 P(His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

Dhruva Maharaja Returns Home

Dhruva Maharaja came to the forest to search out the Supreme Personality

of Godhead with a revenging spirit against his stepmother. His stepmother

had insulted Dhruva, who was not an ordinary person, but a great Vaisnava.

An offense at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava is the greatest offense in this

world. Because of having insulted Dhruva Maharaja, Suruci would become mad

upon the death of her son and would enter a forest fire, and thus her life

would be ended. This was specifically mentioned by the Lord to Dhruva

because he was determined for revenge against her. From this we should take

the lesson that we should never try to insult a Vaisnava. Not only should we

not insult a Vaisnava, but we should not insult anyone unnecessarily. When

Suruci insulted Dhruva Maharaja, he was just a child. She of course did not

know that Dhruva was a great recognized Vaisnava, and so her offense was

committed unknowingly. When one serves a Vaisnava unknowingly, one still

gets the good result, and if one unknowingly insults a Vaisnava, one suffers

the bad result. A Vaisnava is especially favored by the Supreme Personality

of Godhead. Pleasing him or displeasing him directly affects the pleasure

and displeasure of the Supreme Lord. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, in

his eight stanzas of prayer to the spiritual master, has sung, yasya

prasadad bhagavat-prasadah: by pleasing the spiritual master, who is a pure

Vaisnava, one pleases the Personality of Godhead, but if one displeases the

spiritual master one does not know where he is going.

 

730721BG.LON Lectures

So whatever we are seeing in this material world, the origin is in Krsna.

But here it is perverted. That is the only difference. Just like a tree. The

original tree is standing erect. But when you see the perverted reflection

of the tree, everything is topsy-turvied. The upside has gone downside. You

have seen the reflection of the tree. So the upside, downside. When the

upside of the tree becomes downside, that is called perverted reflection. So

this material world is perverted reflection of the spiritual world. It is

false in this sense because it is reflection. Otherwise, exactly the same

things are there in the spiritual world. Urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham asvattham

prahur avyayam. There is. In the Bhagavad-gita you will find in the

Fifteenth Chapter. Urdhva-mulam. Here, this material world, the

origin--mulam means root--is upside, upside. Because it is reflection. This

tree is erect, and this is reflection. So the root has gone upside. So here

is the problem. Because we are attached to our this so-called family,

society, friendship and love... When Arjuna was faced, then he became krpaya

parayavisto visidann idam abravit. "How it is possible, Krsna, that I have

to kill the other side, my fathers, my father-in-law, my grandfather, my

sons, my grandsons, my brother, my so many friends?" So it is natural.

Krpaya paraya avistah. He becomes overwhelmed with compassion. Krpaya

parayavisto visidan. Very morosely. "Oh, Krsna, I will have to fight with

them. I will have to kill them." Why this consciousness came? The other side

also, Duryodhana, why he did not think in that way? Why Arjuna is thinking?

Because he is devotee. That is the difference. A devotee thinks like that. A

devotee does not like to kill anyone, even an ant. Why he should be

encouraged to kill his friends? A devotee is like that. Yasyasti bhaktir

bhagavaty akincana sarvair gunais tatra samasate surah. This is the result

of devotional life. Arjuna was insulted. Arjuna was taken away all his

belongings. Arjuna was banished for thirteen years. His wife was insulted.

So many atrocities was done to him. Still, when the question of killing

came, he was not very happy: "No." This is Vaisnava. This is Vaisnava. He is

ready to excuse even the greatest enemy. But Krsna does not want. If you

insult His devotee, the devotee may excuse, but Krsna will not excuse. This

is Krsna's position. Therefore be careful to insult a devotee. A devotee may

excuse you. But Krsna will not excuse you. Krsna is so strict. He cannot

tolerate any insult to His devotee. Therefore this arrangement of fighting.

Arjuna wanted, "No, let them be excused." Krsna wanted, "No, you must fight.

You must kill them." This is the position.

 

 

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