Text 47] Lord Brahma Satisfies Lord Siva 203
TRANSLATION

Persons who observe everything with differentiation, who are simply
attached to fruitive activities, who are mean-minded, who are always
pained to see the flourishing condition of others and who thus give
distress to them by uttering harsh and piercing words have already been
killed by Providence. Thus there is no need for them to be killed again by
an exalted personality like you.

PURPORT

Persons who are materialistic and always engaged in fruitive activities
for material profit cannot endure seeing the flourishing life of others.
But for a few persons in Krsna consciousness, the entire world is full of
such envious persons, who are perpetually full of anxieties because they
are attached to the material body and are without self-realization. Since
their hearts are always filled with anxiety, it is understood that they have
already been killed by Providence. Thus Lord Siva, as a self-realized
Vaisnava, was advised not to kill Daksa. A Vaignava is described as para-
duhkha-duhkhi because although he is never distressed in any condition
of life, he is distressed to see others in a distressed condition. Vaisnavas,
therefore, should not try to kill by any action of the body or mind but
should try to revive the Krsna consciousness of others out of compassion
for them. The Krsna consciousness movement has been started to deliver
the envious persons of the world from the clutches of maya, and even
though they are sometimes put in trouble, devotees push on the Krsna
consciousness movement in all tolerance. Lord Caitanya advises:

trnad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna

amanind manadena kirtaniyah sada harih
“One can chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind,
thinking himself lower than the straw in the street. One should be more
tolerant than the tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to of-
fer all respects to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy
name of the Lord constantly.” (Siksdstakam, 3)

A Vaisnava should follow the examples of such Vaisnavas as Haridasa
Thakura, Nityananda Prabhu and also Lord Jesus Christ. There is no need
to kill anyone who has already been killed. But it should be noted here-
with that a Vaisnava should not tolerate the blaspheming of Visnu or
Vaisnavas, although he should tolerate personal insults to himself.
