374 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7

TRANSLATION

When the ruling administrators, who are known as the ksatriyas, turned
astray from the path of Absolute Truth, being desirous to suffer in hell,
the Lord, in His incarnation as the sage Parasurama, uprooted those
unwanted kings, who appeared as the thorns of the earth. Thus He thrice
seven times uprooted the ksatriyas with His keenly sharpened chopper.

PURPORT

The ksatriyas, or the ruling administrators of any part of the universe,
either on this planet or on other planets, are factually the representatives of
the Almighty Personality of Godhead, and they are meant to lead the
subjects towards the path of God realization. Every state and its adminis-
trators, regardless of the nature of the administration—monarchy or
democracy, oligarchy or dictatorship or autocracy—have the prime re-
sponsibility to lead the citizens toward God realization. This is essential
for all human beings, and it is the duty of the father, spiritual master,
and ultimately the state to take up the responsibility to lead the citizens
towards this end. The whole creation of material existence is made for
this purpose, just to give a chance to the fallen souls who rebelled against
the will of the Supreme Father and thus became conditioned by material
nature. The force of material nature gradually leads one to a hellish con-
dition of perpetual pains and miseries. Those going against the prescribed
rules and regulations of conditional life are called brahmojjhita-pathas, or
persons going against the path of the Absolute Truth, and they are liable
to be punished. Lord Paragurama, the incarnation of the Personality of
Godhead, appeared in such a state of worldly affairs and killed all the
miscreant kings twenty-one times. Many ksatriya kings fled away at that
time from India to other parts of the world, and according to the authority
of the Mahabharata, the kings of Egypt originally migrated from India
because of Parasurama’s program of chastisement. The kings or admin-
istrators are similarly chastised in all circumstances whenever they become
godless and plan a godless civilization, and that is the order of the
Almighty.

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