Prayer for World Deliverance

Our dearmost Lord Sri Krishna, at the present moment the entire human population is deeply engrossed in ignorance and passion and suffering greatly because of it. By the unlimited kindness of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the entire world has been blessed with the pathway of deliverance back to the original home of all living beings in the spiritual sky. Unfortunately only a very small fraction of the world population is aware of this. Those of us who have been blessed with the knowledge of this pathway of pure Krishna bhakti understand that even though we are most undeserving we still have received this greatest of all good fortunes. And all around us we see this world full of lost souls who are most pitiably completely entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Therefore, our most beloved Lord Krishna, we are begging you to use us as your instruments for as soon as possible delivering them by bringing them to their original, natural, fully enlightened state of consciousness as your eternal servants.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srimad Bhagavatam Class in Pune, India 17 December 2008

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Armed with a Machine Gun?

How long should we remain tolerant and engage ourselves in the Hare Krishna mantra in the world full of rouges, greedy people and terrorists? In the event of Mumbai carnage I am unable to control my anger and hate towards people who kill others in the name of some barbarian religion originated in the middle of a desert thousand years ago. Should we still remain engaged in Hare Krishna mantra sixteen rounds a day when our backyard is burnt, our brothers are tortured and killed and mothers and sisters lose their dignity? Isn't it the right time to wake up with Hare Krishna mantra in heart and sword (or a machine gun in the present age) in the hand to defend dharma? Shouldn't we spread this message worldwide before another massacre happens?

Rajarshi

Answer: No. Armed with Hare Krishna

If you are powerful enough to control the government then you can and should use violence against the criminal element. It is the government's duty to do this. But if you try to take the law into your own hands and directly take to violent action yourself, you will be treated by the government as a criminal, and you be will be arrested and prosecuted. Another option would be that you join the anti-terrorism unit of the police or of the military. This could give you the direct opportunity to battle it out with terrorists.

But as I have previously explained, the actual cause of terrorism is our karma. Because we as a world society are inflicting terrorism upon the innocent animals in the slaughterhouses and upon the innocent children in the abortion clinics, we are now being terrorized as a karmic reaction. The only real solution for terrorism is that we have to stop engaging in it ourselves. Then we will see how the terrorism menace has been defeated.

So if you really want to be the most effective for putting a stop to terrorism, you should fully purify yourself of all of your past karma by taking complete shelter of Lord Sri Krishna under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master. And then with your guru's blessings you should fully absorb yourself in preaching the message of Krishna consciousness all over the world. This and only this will bring a permanent stop to terrorism. As long as the world population is in the jungle of animalistic consciousness it is sure and certain that some of the animals will be ferocious. It is only when we elevate the entire human civilization to the human platform by the wide scale propagation of the Krishna consciousness movement that terrorism will be in the history books only and not in the newspapers.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari