Question: Your thoughts on the demoniac?

Author: Anonymous
Date: 2022-07-29
Jayapatāka Swami: Living entities in this material world are fallen spirit souls who have forgotten the Lord’s lotus feet.
So, He is giving them a chance in this material world to:
Number one: get back to Him and
Number two: to satisfy their material desires.
So, some living entities doesn’t want to serve Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa allows them to act.
In fact, in Bhagavad-gītā, He says that for someone who acts in a demonic mood, that Kṛṣṇa says,
“I satisfy him and he for countless births, he again and again and again, takes birth in the families and the wombs of the demons.”
So Kṛṣṇa, He tells everyone they should surrender to Him.
Just like a father tells his grown son that, “You should still stay with us, and don’t go off alone.”
But, if the son wants to go out, and go to the brothels, the father, what can he do?
He can’t tie him down.
So, Kṛṣṇa’s treating the jīvas as adults.
He’s giving them a chance:
“You can do what you like, but you should do this.”
So, some are good sons, and some are bad sons; some are devotees and some are demons.
So, naturally if a… if a bad son start to inflect pain on the good son then the Lord has to step in, the father has to save.
But apart from that, if the bad son is doing nonsense, somewhere He is watching, “When you’ll come back?”
but He is not interfering, until it creates too much of a disturbance, and then He makes an arrangement so that everything can be properly arranged,
so that people can all be good sons, they can all be engaged in devotional service.
So in this way, it is considered that Kṛṣṇa’s liberalism to allow His jīvas, His part and parcel living entity to become misdirected is less merciful than the pure devotee,
who goes even to those misdirected souls and requests them, “Why you have forgotten Kṛṣṇa?
You don’t see how you are suffering?
You come back to Kṛṣṇa and be happy.”
So Kṛṣṇa, He doesn’t have to come here to actually defeat the demons.
What He does is He allows two demons to become very powerful, and then the demons in their power, they fight against each other,
and then they destroy each other, and then devotees, they don’t have any more trouble with the demons.
Generally speaking, the demons, they are very envious.
Especially they became envious of each other.
They’re also envious of the devotees, but the devotees are not so presumptuous.
They’re non-assuming, so they see the non-devotees are also very proud, so they’re very conspicuous.
So, the demons, they fight against each other.
That is also Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
In previous age, Kṛṣṇa would come down to kill the demons, and this age, He came down as Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as Harināma,
and to kill the demonic mentality of the demon.
In this way, He kills the demon, not by taking their life, but by taking their demonic mentality, and killing that, and turning them into devotees.
So, Kṛṣṇa is giving very easy way out to the demons, but how much can He do alone?
He needs His devotees.
He is actually given the opportunity for His devotees to go out and give Kṛṣṇa.
And this will change the demonic mentality of the fallen souls.
Category: [Material World / Demons]

Related Questions

There are very many people who very strictly follow so called religions like Jainism and are headstrong in their philosophy. Are they considered demoniac? What is the hope for them? How will they get the mercy of Lord Caitanya?
Questioner: Pūjā
Date: 2022-08-01
Jayapataka Swami: Regarding Jainism,
there is mentioned a bit in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
The first Tīrthāṅkara is Ṛṣabhadeva.
And He is an avatāra of Kṛṣṇa.
But the modern Jains have become atheists.
And they follow like Buddhism.
If you encourage them to read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, what was the original teaching of Ṛṣabhadeva,
they can be benefitted.
They all accept that Ṛṣabhadeva was the first Tīrthāṇkara.
But they don’t know much about Him.
He was a theistic.
He was Himself Bhagavān!
He was the father of Bhārata.
This country is named as Bhārata-varṣa.
And He was the son of Ṛṣabhadeva.
So they should study about Ṛṣabhadeva.
Category: [Material World / Demons], [Mercy], [Other philosophies], [Other philosophies / Jainism]
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