Text 6] Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvaraka 519

TEXT 6

ATE FAP: SA TATRA: |
FAATAAATY Sagat Ut Bie AT M&A

nadhayo vyadhayah klesa
daiva-bhiitatma-hetavah

ajata-satrav abhavan
jantunam rajni karhicit

na—never; a@dhayah—anxieties; vyadhayah— diseases: klesah—trouble due
to excessive heat and cold; daiva-bhiita-atma—all due to the body, super-
natural power and other living beings; hetavah—due to the cause of; ajata-
Satrau—unto one who has no enemy: abhavan—happened; jantinam—of
the living beings; rajii—unto the King; karhicit—at any time.

TRANSLATION

Due to the King’s having no enemy, the living beings were not at any
time disturbed by mental agonies, diseases, or excessive heat or cold.

PURPORT

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the
poor animals is Satan’s philosophy. In this age there is enmity against poor
animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction
of the poor animals is being forced en human society, and therefore there
is always the strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collec-
tively or nationally. At the time of Maharaja Yudhisthira, there were no
different nations, although there were different subordinate states. The
whole world was united, and the supreme head, being a trained king like
Yudhisthira, kept all the inhabitants free from anxiety, diseases and
excessive heat and cold. They were not only economically well-to-do, but
also they were physically fit and undisturbed by supernatural power, by
enmity of other living beings and by disturbance of bodily and mental
agonies. There is a proverb in Bengali that a bad king spoils the kingdom
and a bad housewife spoils the family. This truth is applicable here also.
Because the King was pious, obedient to the Lord and sages, because he
