Influence
Submitted by Mukunda Goswami on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 02:00.
Thought For the Day:
Thought For the Day
The influence of the age is so pervasive that even Krsna's own peers
suspected him 10. 57.41: "After the almighty Lord had shown the
Syamantaka jewel to His relatives, thus dispelling the false
accusations against Him, He returned it to Akrura."
PURPORT
For the second time, doubts about the Lord's reputation occasioned by the
Syamantaka jewel are dispelled by the jewel itself. Indeed, for the
second time the Lord brought the jewel to Dvaraka to establish His
integrity there. This amazing series of incidents demonstrates that
even when Lord Krsna descends to this world there is a tendency for His
"peers" to criticize Him. The whole material world is infected by the
faultfinding propensity, and in this chapter the Supreme Lord
demonstrates the nature of this undesirable quality.
Srila Prabhupada has informed us that there was a plot to murder his
spiritual master. Some of Prabhupada's initiated disciples wrote a book
that charged other disciples with poisoning Srila Prabhupada to death.