Asura, work for destroy the world
Bg 16.9
etam drstim avastabhya
nastatmano ‘lpa-buddhayah
prabhavanty ugra-karmanah
ksayaya jagato ‘hitah
TRANSLATION
Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.
PURPORT
The demoniac are engaged in activities that will lead the world to destruction. The Lord states here that they are less intelligent. The materialists, who have no concept of God, think that they are advancing. But according to Bhagavad-Gita, they are unintelligent and devoid of all sense. They try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore always engage in inventing something for sense gratification. Such materialistic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, cruel to animals and cruel to other human beings. They have no idea how to behave toward one another. Animal killing is very prominent amongst demoniac people. Such people are considered the enemies of the world because ultimately they will invent or create something which will bring destruction to all. Indirectly, this verse anticipates the invention of nuclear weapons, of which the whole world is today very proud. At any moment war may take place, and these atomic weapons may create havoc. Such things are created solely for the destruction of the world, and this is indicated here. Due to godlessness, such weapons are invented in human society; they are not meant for the peace and prosperity of the world. [As-They-Surrender-Unto-Me ]
The material nature (Durga Devi) will punish the asura.
“This Durga power is there. You have seen the picture of Durga. She has got ten hands and different types of weapons. Now the Durga-puja will be performed. You can see the Durga deity. So ten hands, the material nature. Ten hands means ten directions: north, south, east, west, and then the four corners, eight, and up and down. So ten directions. So this material nature, Durga, is controlling the whole universe, ten directions. S rsti -sthiti-pralaya-s a dhana- s aktir ek a [Bs. 5.44]. Ek a . Ch a yeva. But how she is working? Not independently. S rsti -sthiti-pralaya-s a dhana- s aktir ek a ch a yeva. She is working just like shadow. The original body and the shadow body, they are two different. But the shadow body moves if the original moves. So therefore this word is used, ch a yeva. This vast power, material nature… It is a very powerful… S rst i-sthiti. It can create; it can destroy. At any moment, if there is some earthquake, the whole sea water may come and cover the land portion, and within the sea you can see one island has come out. Everyone has got this experience. So s rst i-sthiti-pralaya. One side, pralaya; one side, creation. So this can be done by the material nature. But how she is working? She is working under the direction of somebody else. That is Govinda. And Govinda also says in the Bhagavad-Gita, may a dhyaks e n a prak r ti h s u yate sa-car a caram: [Bg. 9.10] “She is working under My direction.”
So… So far killing or destroying is concerned, that Durga power, Krishna’s power, that is sufficient. That is sufficient. He doesn’t require to come to kill the demons. She is engaged. You have seen that Durga is killing the demon, that asura. You have seen the Durga’s picture? The asura is there and the lion is there, and she has taken a bunch of hair of the asura, and the trident is pushed on his chest, and the lion has captured him. So he is overpowered. So the asura is overpowered, but if the asura makes more attempt to save himself, then there are, only two hands are engaged of Durga to kill the asura, one catching his hair and one the trident. Only two hands are engaged. But if he shows more power, then there are eight hands more, reserved with different types of weapons. So you cannot overcome the ruling, or the control, of the material nature. That is not possible. Daiv i hy e sa gu n amay i mama m a y a duratyay a [Bg. 7.14]. So asura, to kill the asuras, however powerful they may be… We have seen. There were so many asuras in this world. There were Lenin, there were Stalin, there were Hitler, there were Hira n yaka s ipu. So many. But they could not survive. It is not possible. They’ll be finished. SB Lecture, by Srila Prabhupada 1.8.20 M aya pura, September 30, 1974
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“Since the beginning of creation, the demons and the demigods, or the Vaish n avas, are always the two classes of living beings to dominate the planets of the universes. Lord Brahma is the first demigod, and Hiranyaksha is the first demon in this universe. Only under certain conditions do the planets float as weightless balls in the air, and as soon as these conditions are disturbed, the planets may fall down in the Garbhodaka Ocean, which covers half the universe. The other half is the spherical dome within which the innumerable planetary systems exist. The floating of the planets in the weightless air is due to the inner constitution of the globes, and the modernized drilling of the earth to exploit oil from within is a sort of disturbance by the modern demons and can result in a greatly harmful reaction to the floating condition of the earth. A similar disturbance was created formerly by the demons headed by Hiranyaksha (the great exploiter of the gold rush), and the earth was detached from its weightless condition and fell down into the Garbhodaka Ocean. The Lord, as maintainer of the whole creation of the material world, therefore assumed the gigantic form of a boar with a proportionate snout and picked up the earth from within the water of Garbhodaka.”
Today we can practically see how much waste is created by the use of oil upon which all modern industries depend. Only Lord Vishnu in His Form as the Divine Boar could dig the Earth from the filth at the bottom of the universe. But today who will save us from the demons of Kali Yuga? The guideline for these little demons of today is greed alone. These demons in the form of religionists, industrialists, politicians and scientists have neither regard for the Earth, nor the cow, nor for women and neither even for tomorrow. Devotees cannot expect mercy in the hands of living entities that are blinded by the desire to lord it over all they survey. The world desperately needs to take shelter of the Holy Names of the Lord Shri Krishna. To access the situation accordingly, we need to use our divinely-endowed intelligence by the grace of Shrila Prabhupada and plan accordingly.
We are already 5100 years into the depths of Kali Yuga. We know from the Shrimad Bhagavatam, that Kali Yuga has total of 432,000 years. Furthermore, we know that there is no prediction of devastation after the passing of a mere fifty or fifty-one centuries of Kali Yuga. Therefore as devotees we should have faith in the spotless Purana, the Shrimad Bhagavatam. The only light in this Dark Age is the mercy of Lord Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In this material world the situation tends to grow darker over time. For this reason at the end of Kali Yuga and the beginning of Satya Yuga an incarnation of Godhead appears to reset the measurement of time. Still, Shri Krishna has promised a mini Satya Yuga even within the present Kali Yuga. Will this Golden Age totally re-work and repair the tendencies of Kali Yuga like our shortened memories and life spans ? We should not expect miracles of this sort but we should rather concentrate on the essence of preaching and chanting the mahamantra . Abhaya Mudra Dasi
Compiled by Guna Avatara Dasa
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