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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.15
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 15
- anāgaḥsv iha bhūteṣu
- ya āgas-kṛn niraṅkuśaḥ
- āhartāsmi bhujaṁ sākṣād
- amartyasyāpi sāṅgadam
anāgaḥsuto the offenseless ihato the offenseless — to the offenseless; bhūteṣuliving beings — living beings; yaḥthe person — the person; āgaḥcommits offense-kṛtcommits offense — commits offense; niraṅkuśaḥupstart — upstart; āhartāI shall bring forth asmiI shall bring forth — I shall bring forth; bhujamarms — arms; sākṣātdirectly — directly; amartyasyaeven one who is a demigod apieven one who is a demigod — even one who is a demigod; sawith decorations and armor-aṅgadamwith decorations and armor — with decorations and armor.
An upstart living being who commits offenses by torturing those who are offenseless shall be directly uprooted by me, even though he be a denizen of heaven with armor and decorations.
The denizens of the heavenly kingdom are called amara, or deathless, due to their possessing a long span of life, far greater than that of the human beings. For a human being, who has only a maximum one-hundred-year duration of life, a span of life spreading over millions of years is certainly considered to be deathless. For example, from the Bhagavad-gītā we learn that on the Brahmaloka planet the duration of one day is calculated to be 4,300,000 x 1,000 solar years. Similarly, in other heavenly planets one day is calculated to be six months of this planet, and the inhabitants get a life of ten million of their years. Therefore, in all higher planets, since the span of life is far greater than that of the human being, the denizens are called deathless by imagination, although actually no one within the material universe is deathless.
Mahārāja Parīkṣit challenges even such denizens of heaven if they torture the offenseless. This means that the state executive head must be as strong as Mahārāja Parīkṣit so that he may be determined to punish the strongest offenders. It should be the principle of a state executive head that the offender of the codes of God is always punished.
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