Text 15]
Punishment and Reward of Kali
893
TRANSLATION
Whoever causes offenseless living beings to suffer must fear me anywhere and everywhere in the world. By curbing dishonest miscreants, one automatically benefits the offenseless.
PURPORT
Dishonest miscreants flourish because of cowardly and impotent executive heads of state. But when such executive heads are strong enough to curb all sorts of dishonest miscreants, in any part of the state, certainly they cannot flourish. When the miscreants are punished in an exemplary manner, automatically all good fortune follows. As said before, it is the prime duty of the king or the executive head to give protection in all respects to the peaceful offenseless citizens of the state. The devotees of the Lord are by nature peaceful and offenseless, and therefore it is the prime duty of the state to arrange to convert everyone to become a devotee of the Lord, and thus automatically there will be peaceful offenseless citizens. Then the only duty of the king will be to curb the dishonest miscreants. That will bring about peace and harmony all over human society.
TEXT 15
अनागःस्विह भूतेषु य आगस्कृन्निर्गुः। आहतासि भुजं साक्षादमत्यस्यापि साङ्गदम् ॥१५॥
anāgaḥsv iha bhūteṣu ya āgaskṛn niraṅkuśaḥ āhartāsmi bhujam sākṣād amartyasyāpi sāṅgadam
anāgaḥsu iha—to the offenseless; bhūteṣu—living beings; yaḥ—the person; āgaskṛt—commits offense; niraṅkuśaḥ—upstart; āharta asmi—I shall bring forth; bhujam—arms; sākṣāt—directly; amartyasya api—even one who is a demigod; sāṅgadam—with decorations and armor.
TRANSLATION
An upstart living being who commits offenses by torturing those who are offenseless shall be directly uprooted by me, even though he be a denizen of heaven with armor and decorations.