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Violence is only justified for upholding supreme justice and law and order according to the will of God. Krishna instructed Arjuna to fight to make him knowledgeable about the eternal, indestructible soul and to fulfill his prescribed duty as a kshatriya. Terrorism that involves mass murder of humans without regard for the soul is inappropriate because it disrupts the natural cycle of birth and death and is not done to establish religious principles or good administration.
Violence is only justified for upholding supreme justice and law and order according to the will of God. Krishna instructed Arjuna to fight to make him knowledgeable about the eternal, indestructible soul and to fulfill his prescribed duty as a kshatriya. Terrorism that involves mass murder of humans without regard for the soul is inappropriate because it disrupts the natural cycle of birth and death and is not done to establish religious principles or good administration.
Violence is only justified for upholding supreme justice and law and order according to the will of God. Krishna instructed Arjuna to fight to make him knowledgeable about the eternal, indestructible soul and to fulfill his prescribed duty as a kshatriya. Terrorism that involves mass murder of humans without regard for the soul is inappropriate because it disrupts the natural cycle of birth and death and is not done to establish religious principles or good administration.
7. Answer the following questions with reference to verses, analogies, and
statements from Prabhupadas purports. !hagavad"gita #.#$, #7% a. &hen is violence 'ustified( b. &h) did *rishna, who is all loving, incite Ar'una to war( c. +s terrorism in the name of religion appropriate or inappropriate( Nobody likes violence. However, violence has been used for certain cause since history. Such act brings death to loved ones. In this connection, Krishna speaks about soul elaborately in the second chapter of Bhagavad-ita. He says !B ".#$% That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. &herefore, we understand that the eternal soul is actually not sub'ect to death when the body dies and death for the body is inevitable. a( )iolence is 'ustified only if it is for the supre*e 'ustice keeping law and order in hu*an society. &herefore, it has to be according to the will of the +ord, and the person carrying out violence should be in knowledge. An example is given of a 'udge who awards capital punish*ent to a person co**itting *urder. Srila ,rabhupada draws reference fro* Manu-sahit in purport of B "."# that it is advantageous for the *urderer to be killed because all the reactions for his sin would be forgiven at once in his ne-t birth. .lso the 'udge would not incur any sinful reactions as he is in knowledge. .n analogy is *entioned of a surgical operation which is *eant to cure the patient, but not to kill hi*. )iolence cannot ha*per the i**ortality of the soul. b( .r'una was grief-stricken to see all his cousins, grandfather and teacher standing before hi* to fight. /ven though he argued of co*passion, sinful reactions, en'oy*ent and destruction of dynasty, he did not consider the ulti*ate benefit of war dovetailed with the will of the +ord. Krishna, therefore, instructed .r'una to fight telling hi* that there is no death for the indestructible soul. &his would *ake hi* knowledgeable in the real ter*. Knowing this and understanding the will of the +ord, he will not incur sinful reaction. Secondly, Krishna re*inded .r'una of his prescribed duty 0 to fight in the battlefield of Kuruk1etra, being a k1atriya. &here was no real reason for hi* to withdraw fro* the battlefield. c( &erroris* technically invites *ass *urder of hu*ans, irrespective of whether real 'ustice is achieved. .lso, nowadays, groups that perfor* terroris* have no infor*ation about the indestructible soul and their actions are co*pletely on the bodily platfor*. Srila ,rabhupada writes in his purport B "."$ that one has to take birth according to ones activities o! li!e. "nd a!ter !inishing one term o! activities# one has to die to take birth !or the ne$t. %n this way one is going through one cycle o! birth and death a!ter another without liberation. However, Srila ,rabhupada clarifies that such cycle of repeated birth and death is disrupted on the occasion of unnecessary *urder, slaughter and war. &herefore, such interruptive actions are against the supre*e law, which only per*its violence for the purpose of good ad*inistration and upholding religious principles. Hence, i**oral and illegal terroris* in the na*e of religion is not appropriate.
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