In the religious war, the kshatriyas were fighting, not the shudras, not the brahmanas, not the vaishyas. There was a caste for fighters. Not like this, where a shudra is elected as president, he is not fighting, he is in a safe place, and he is simply directing, "You go and fight."
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People cannot understand that how fighting can be religious principle. Yes, the fighting can be also religious principle – but not the present fighting. Present fighting, the politicians, out of their whims, they declare war, that is not religious fighting; that is abominable. That is to serve their political ends. When the politicians cannot control the mass of people being dissatisfied, they make a clique to declare some war so that all their attention may be diverted. This is politics. more
Whimsical, reckless war
lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.13, Manila, October 12, 1972
...formerly the war was declared not whimsically. The war was also religious war. So in the religious war, the kshatriyas were fighting, not the shudras, not the brahmanas, not the vaishyas. There was a caste for fighters. Not like this, where a shudra is elected as president, he is not fighting, he is in a safe place, and he is simply directing, "You go and fight. Let me see how you are fighting." No. The king, the kshatriya, he will come forth in the front of fight. That was fight. If the king is killed by the opposite party, then it is declared that they are victorious – no more fight, no more unnecessarily killing other persons. The aim was to kill the king. The king was on the front. The other party, he was also in front. The king is fighting with king, and the soldiers are fighting with soldier. So when the king is killed, then the other party becomes victorious. That was the process of war, not that releasing atomic bomb from the sky and kill so many innocent persons. No, that is not war. So war, if it is fought on principle, on religious principle, that is called dharma-yuddhi. That is not prohibited. But this killing process, unnecessarily, innocent men, that is not dharma-yuddhi. That is irregular fighting. That kind of war is not sanctioned by the Vedas.
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