Text 41] The Atrocities of King Karnsa 313

sraddha dayé titiksé ca
kratavas ca hares tanith

viprah—the brahmanas; gavah ca—and the cows; vedaéh ca—and the
Vedic knowledge; tapah—austerity; satyam—truthfulness; damah—
control of the senses; Samah—control of the mind; sraddha—faith;
dayé—mercy; titiksa—tolerance; ca—also; kratavah ca—as well as
sacrifices; hareh taniih—are the different parts of the body of Lord
Visnu.

TRANSLATION

The brahmanas, the cows, Vedic knowledge, austerity, truthful-
ness, control of the mind and senses, faith, mercy, tolerance and
sacrifice are the different parts of the body of Lord Visnu, and they
are the paraphernalia for a godly civilization.

PURPORT

When we offer our obeisances to the Personality of Godhead, we say:

namo brahmanya-devaya
go-brahmana-hitdya ca

Jagad-dhitaya krsnaya
govinddya namo namah

When Krsna comes to establish real perfection in the social order, He
personally gives protection to the cows and the bréhmanas (go-
brahmana-hitaya ca). This is His first interest because without protec-
tion of the brahmanas and the cows, there can be no human civilization
and no question of happy, peaceful life. Asuras, therefore, are always in-
terested in killing the bréhmanas and cows. Especially in this age, Kali-
yuga, cows are being killed all over the world, and as soon as there is a
movement to establish brahminical civilization, people in general rebel.
Thus they regard the Krsna consciousness movement as a form of
“brainwashing.” How can such envious persons be happy in their god-
less civilization? The Supreme Personality of Godhead punishes them by
keeping them in darkness, birth after birth, and pushing them lower and
