Category:Blaspheming Krsna
Theme Analysis
Blaspheming Kṛṣṇa is a suicidal act for the soul, comparable to embracing a venomous snake. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that although the Supreme Lord is self-satisfied and unaffected by either praise or insults, His devotees cannot remain passive when their Lord is criticized. The examples of Bhīma and Sahadeva show that a devotee must exhibit anger—trembling and ready to strike—when Kṛṣṇa is blasphemed. While the Lord is so merciful that He sometimes liberates even those who hate Him (like Śiśupāla and Dantavakra), Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that this is not a path to be imitated. For the general conditioned soul, blasphemy leads to hellish planets and birth in demoniac families. The Lord's punishment of such persons is actually an act of mercy to stop their sinful habit and ultimately purify them.
- The Devotee's Intolerance: While a devotee tolerates personal insults, they become like fire when Kṛṣṇa is blasphemed. Bhīma lamented his inability to kill Śiśupāla immediately, and Sahadeva trembled with rage.
- The Example of Śiśupāla: Śiśupāla blasphemed Kṛṣṇa from childhood. Although he attained liberation (merging into the effulgence) due to constant absorption in Kṛṣṇa, this is not the goal of a devotee.
- Punishment as Mercy: When Kṛṣṇa punishes a blasphemer, it is to cut off their sinful propensity. This rectification eventually allows the soul to return home, back to Godhead.
- A Dangerous Path: One should not think that because Kṛṣṇa is unaffected, one can blaspheme Him. Such offenses generally lead to deep degradation and forgetting the service of the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Blaspheming Kṛṣṇa - The Fate of the Envious.
Pages in category "Blaspheming Krsna"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
A
- A characteristic of a pure devotee is that he excuses any offense by an ignorant rascal. A characteristic of Krsna, however, is that He cannot tolerate blasphemy of His devotees
- Although these two men - Sisupala and Dantavakra - repeatedly blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu (Krsna), the Supreme Brahman, they were quite healthy
- As one should not try to be killed by embracing an enemy, a tiger or a snake, one should not blaspheme the Supreme Personality of Godhead and become His enemy in order to be put into hellish life
B
- Because Krsna is unaffected by favorable prayers or unfavorable blasphemy one should not therefore blaspheme the Supreme Lord
- Bhima began to murmur, "My arms are just like thunderbolts, but despite these arms I could not smash Sisupala while he was blaspheming Krsna. Therefore, of what use are these strong arms?"
- Blaspheming the Supreme Lord or His devotee is not at all good for the conditioned soul, but Krsna, being very kind, punishes the conditioned soul in one life for such sinful activities and then takes him back home, back to Godhead
F
- From the very beginning of his childhood, when he could not even speak properly, Sisupala, began blaspheming the Lord, and he continued to be envious of Sri Krsna until death. Similarly, his brother Dantavakra continued the same habits
- From the very beginning of their lives (Jaya and Vijaya) they thought of Lord Krsna as an enemy, and even though blaspheming Lord Krsna, they chanted the holy name of Krsna constantly along with their inimical thoughts
I
- In that way, although your verse is blasphemous according to your meaning, mother Sarasvati has taken advantage of it to offer prayers to the Lord
- It is concluded that Lord Krsna, or Visnu, is not of this material world. He belongs to the spiritual world. One who considers Him to be a material demigod is a great offender and blasphemer
- It is the Vedic injunction that whenever there is blasphemy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one must immediately leave. If he does not do so, he becomes bereft of his pious activities and is degraded to a lower condition of life
K
- Krsna did not reply to even a single accusation made by Sisupala, but all the members except few, present in the meeting were very much agitated because it is the duty of any respectable person not to tolerate blasphemy against God or His devotee
- Krsna offers benedictions even to Sisupala & similarly inimical conditioned souls. This does not mean, however, that one should be inimical toward the Lord. The stress is given to the favorable execution of devotional service, not purposeful blasphemy
O
- O great sage, we are all eager to know the cause for this mercy of the Lord. I have heard that formerly a king named Vena blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that all the brahmanas consequently obliged him to go to hell
- One may then ask why the Lord exhibited His anger. The point is that one should be ready to tolerate all insults to one's own self, but when Krsna or His pure devotee is blasphemed, a genuine devotee becomes angry & acts like fire against the offenders
- One should be very intolerant towards the blasphemy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, or His devotees
- One should not blaspheme Lord Visnu through one's mind, words or actions, for a blasphemer will go to hellish life along with his forefathers
- One should not conclude that because Krsna is unaffected by favorable prayers or unfavorable blasphemy one should therefore blaspheme the Supreme Lord. This is not the regulative principle
- One who blasphemes the Lord is put into a family of asuras, in which there is every chance of forgetting the service of the Lord
T
- The impersonalists, who do not accept the transcendental form of Lord Sri Krsna, and the demons, who are always engaged in blaspheming and fighting with Him, are punished by being merged into the Brahman effulgence
- The symptoms of madness served as an impetus for remembering Krsna. The mood of ecstasy awoke love, disdain, defamation by words, pride, honor and indirect prayer. Thus Sri Krsna was sometimes blasphemed and sometimes honored
- They (Jaya and Vijaya) were purified because of chanting the holy name of Krsna. It is to be understood that even a blasphemer can be freed from sinful activities by chanting the holy name of the Lord
- Trembling of the body was exhibited in Sahadeva, the younger brother of Nakula. When Sisupala was vehemently blaspheming the Lord, Sahadeva began to tremble out of anger