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Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers
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रक्षन्ति तद्भक्तिमतः परेभ्यो मत्तश्च मत्यनिथ सर्वतश्च ॥१८॥
bhūtāni viṣṇoḥ sura-pūjitāni durdarśa-liṅgāni mahādbhutāni rakṣanti tad-bhaktimataḥ parebhyo mattaś ca martyān atha sarvataś ca
bhūtāni —living entities or servants;  viṣṇoḥ —of Lord Viṣṇu;  sura-pūjitāni —who are worshiped by the demigods;  durdarśa-liṅgāni —possessing forms not easily seen;  mahā-adbhutāni —greatly wonderful;  rakṣanti —they protect;  tat-bhakti-mataḥ —the devotees of the Lord;  parebhyaḥ —from others who are inimical;  mattaḥ —from me (Yamarāja) and my order carriers;  ca —and;  martyān —the human beings;  atha —thus;  sarvataḥ —from everything;  ca —and.
TRANSLATION
The order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu, who are worshiped even by the demigods, possess wonderful bodily features exactly like those of Viṣṇu and are very rarely seen. The Viṣṇudūtas protect the devotees of the Lord from the hands of enemies, from envious persons and even from my jurisdiction, as well as from natural disturbances.
PURPORT
Yamarāja has specifically described the qualities of the Viṣṇudūtas to convince his own servants not to be envious of them. Yamarāja warned the Yamadūtas that the Viṣṇudūtas are worshiped with respectful obeisances by the demigods and are always very alert to protect the devotees of the Lord from the hands of enemies, from natural disturbances and from all dangerous conditions in this material world. Sometimes the members of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Society are afraid of the impending danger of world war and ask what would happen to them if a war should occur. In all kinds of danger, they should be confident of their protection by the Viṣṇudūtas or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed