GOD DOES NOT SUPPORT OFFENSIVE WAR ONLY DEFENSIVE WARS
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All on Fri Oct 7 11:18:48 2022
The genuine military class oath of duty is to simply protect people's lives and property by fighting for peace. However, complicated a conflict maybe it is absolute truth that violence can only be covered by a lie and that lie can only be maintained by
further violence. Therefore, anyone who proclaims violence as their method must take the lie as their principle.
Violence and war mean absence of higher knowledge of spiritual reality distinguished from illusion for the ultimate welfare of all people. All men are of one human race as such there is no actual conflict of interest only misunderstandings based on
sectarian material differences in economics, language, race, religion, and geography. Those material differences are material attachments to sinful lust, anger, and greed to lord over other people for material gain, political power, and wealth.
Nations must rid themselves of lust, anger, and greed because these are the gates leading to hell. Contrary to popular belief there is no such thing as religious wars only irreligious wars to steal other people lives and property. The only religious wars
are fought in self-defense.
O Pārtha, happy are the kṣatriyas to whom such fighting opportunities come unsought, opening for them the doors of the heavenly planets. Bhagavad-Gita 2.32
PURPORT
As supreme teacher of the world, Lord Kṛṣṇa condemns the attitude of Arjuna who said, "I do not find any good in this fighting. It will cause perpetual habitation in hell." Such statements by Arjuna were due to ignorance only. He wanted to become
nonviolent in the discharge of his specific duty. For a kṣatriya to be in the battlefield and to become nonviolent is the philosophy of fools. In the Parāśara-smṛti or religious codes made by Parāśara, the great sage and father of Vyāsadeva, it
is stated:
kṣatriyo hi prajā rakṣan śastra-pāṇiḥ pradaṇḍayan
nirjitya parasainyādi kṣitiṁ dharmeṇa pālayet
"The kṣatriya's duty is to protect the citizens from all kinds of difficulties, and for that reason he has to apply violence in suitable cases for law and order. Therefore he has to conquer the soldiers of inimical kings, and thus, with religious
principles, he should rule over the world."
Considering all aspects, Arjuna had no reason to refrain from fighting. If he should conquer his enemies, he would enjoy the kingdom; and if he should die in the battle, he would be elevated to the heavenly planets whose doors were wide open to him.
Fighting would be for his benefit in either case.
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