They cannot make them sane and normal condition. They have no such policy, neither they do know it. So what to do? "Blow him. We cannot manage them."

Bringing the War Home

Take refuge in Krishna's holy names

The age is very bad, the Kali-yuga. You are experiencing. We have to simply take shelter of Krishna and always cry,

Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, he!
Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, he!
Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, raksha mam!
Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, pahi mam!
Krishna, keshava, Krishna, keshava, Krishna, keshava, raksha mam!
rama raghava, rama raghava, rama raghava, pahi mam!

Like that, as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught us. The time is very dangerous. And still, in this dangerous time... Just like in epidemic condition where every people is being contaminated and dying, still, the doctors appointed by the government, they have to go into the epidemic area and try to treat the person and save them. Our duty is like that. The whole atmosphere is epidemic, whole atmosphere, this Kali-yuga. And still, by the superior orders we have to preach this Krishna consciousness movement. Therefore our only shelter is Krishna. Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, raksha mam ["Krishna, please protect me"]. Very dangerous position. The foolish people, they are thinking that "We are very happy and we are very safe." But nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. So we have to deal with persons very carefully, and at the same time, we have to push our missionary activities.

"The citizens, they are just like innocent children, and the government is to be supposed as the father. So small children, they are completely dependent on father with full faith: 'My father is there. My mother is there.' And if the father and mother become contaminated, then where is the position of the children?"

If the whole government is polluted, then what is the position of the citizens? Just see. There is so-called government, millions of rupees they are spending and taking salary, government house, but the praja [citizens], they have no security for their life income. Just see the position. So that is said here. Prajanam pitaro ye cha shastarah sadhavah samah. How impartial they should be, how competent they should be to give protection to the citizens. And if they are polluted, if they are incapable and such government is there, then ... what is the condition of the citizens? Where they will go for protection?

That is the position now. This is called Kali-yuga. They have no other shelter. Now, these people are so frightened of their life and property; still, they cannot go to the... But it will happen in this age. Acchinna-dara-dravina gacchanti giri-kananam. Due to this rascal government people will be so much embarrassed that acchinna-dara-dravinah: they will be separated from their wife, children, and money, and they will go to the forest. This will happen. They will go to the forest. Nobody wants to leave the company of wife, children, and property, but people will be forced. Just like we have seen already in the time of partition, the Muslims and Hindus. The Hindus were going away, and the Muslims were also going away. Nobody was happy, but the partition was made, and this was accepted as India's independence. This is called maya [illusion]. They are going to be more dependent, more and more, and still, it was accepted as independence.

yad yad acharati shreyan
itaras tat tad ihate
sa yat pramanam kurute
lokas tad anuvartate

If the head..., the heads of the society, whatever they do, general people follow them. ...Shreyan means the leading personality. Yad yad acharati shreyan itaras tat tad ihate. And the general public, they follow them. What the leaders accept as good, the general public they also accept so. ... Now, here the government or the king is compared with the father. That is the position of father. Just like a father will never tolerate the killing of his child before him. He will give his own life. He will try to attack that person who has killed his child and give his own life: "I do not like to live." That is the position of government. But they are silent. They're silent. This is Kali-yuga. ... Just like if you put your head on some friend's lap and you sleep very nicely without any care, but the man on whose lap you are putting your head, if he is ungrateful–he is not faithful; he wants to cut your throat–then what is your position? This is going on.

So it is very nice discussion, very well, by the bhagavad-dutas [messengers of God]. These are the speeches of the bhagavad-dutas, not of the maya's duta. Maya-duta will say, "Oh, this is all right. This is all right." But this is the speech of the bhagavad-duta. Try to understand. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.

... One Mr. McPherson, Englishman, he was known to me. He was coming to my shop. He stated that in the First World War, he was in the war, service, and some Belgium refugees came to France because Marshall Fox, he was in charge of that area, and when he was informed that so many refugees, mostly women and children, they have come, so he became so much disturbed that "Where shall I give them shelter in this warfield?" His advice was that "Blow them. Finish." So they were blown up. This is a practical... In warfield such things happen. "Who is going to take responsibility of so many women and children in this war?" They were blown up. They came to take shelter but they were blown up. Such things happen in war. Yes. Just like in your country the real policy–to continue the Vietnam–means they cannot manage these hippies, and they are trying to send them to Vietnam and kill them. That's all. That is the policy. They cannot manage. They cannot make them sane and normal condition. They have no such policy, neither they do know it. So what to do? "Blow him. We cannot manage them." Therefore they are continuing. That's all. This is the policy. Do you think? Eh? What do you think? ... "Unwanted persons, let them be finished." Just like this Marshall Fox did. "Unwanted refugees? Blow them." And killing and blowing, oh, this is very easy thing for the animal-eaters, for the maintainers of slaughterhouse. I hear that these Naxalites have taken to slaughterhouse to learn how to kill. Do you know that? Somebody was telling. Yes. Your husband was telling. So these Naxalites, they are taken to the slaughterhouse and they are taught how to kill. Therefore they do not care. Immediately beating by rocks, and as soon as he falls down, they go away, just like slaughterhouse. They are taught. And the military men, they are also taught like that, to become cruel. A very horrible position in this Kali-yuga. Krishna-nama koro bhai ara saba mithya. You take shelter of Krishna; otherwise so many things will happen.