God or God's devotee cannot be defeated by the enemies

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"God or God's devotee cannot be defeated by the enemies"

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So enemies there will be. Because he has got enemy, therefore it is not that he is kṛṣṇa-bhakta. He is kṛṣṇa-bhakta, even having his enemies, just like Kṛṣṇa, despite having enemies, is Kṛṣṇa. But the difference is that Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa's bhakta will never be defeated by the enemies. That is the distinction. Enemies may have, but he will never be defeated. God or God's devotee cannot be defeated by the enemies. Otherwise Kṛṣṇa's declaration will be false.

Lecture on SB 6.3.18 -- Gorakhpur, February 11, 1971:

So Yamadūtas' business is to arrest the sinful. That is their . . . here, everyone is sinful.

Nobody is free from sin. That is the position of this material world. So Yamadūtas are searching or taking away. Just after leaving this body, one is taken away by Yamadūta to the place of Yamadūta. There is a planet described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

So those who are very sinful, they are dragged through hot desert. They cannot . . . they fall down. Such persons fall down, but still, he is dragged through the desert. These descriptions are there. Sometimes we feel like that. So there is a planet. So sinful persons are arrested and taken to Yamadūtas.

Similarly, Viṣṇudūtas are there. Bhūtāni viṣṇoḥ sura-pūjitāni. Sura means demigod. The residents of the higher planets, they also respect, show their obeisances, respectful obeisances, to these assistants of . . . Viṣṇudūtas, sura-pūjitāni. Durdarśa-liṅgāni. Durdarśa, "very rarely seen."

Because the Ajāmila was practically the only case who was taken from the clutches of the Yamadūta. Otherwise, there is no need of their coming. But there are still devotees. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti (BG 4.9): "After leaving this body they do not come again to take birth in this material world, but they come to Me."

So those who are eligible to going to go back to Godhead, they are taken by Viṣṇudūta as guides. But durdarśa-liṅgāni, they are very rarely to be seen, because directly going to Vaikuṇṭha after leaving this body, such persons are also very rare. Durdarśa-liṅgāni mahādbhutāni. Adbhuta: wonderful. Certainly they must be wonderful, because they are spiritual body—four hands, with different weapons, just like Viṣṇu. So such things are not visible within this material world. Therefore mahādbhutāni, very wonderful.

Mahādbhutāni rakṣanti. What is their business? They give protection to the devotees. Rakṣanti tad-bhaktimataḥ parebhyaḥ. Bhaktimataḥ. Those who are engaged in devotional service, they are protected from parebhyaḥ. Parebhyaḥ. Means the enemies of the devotees. The devotees of the Lord are always protected by the Viṣṇudūta, who are almost as powerful as Viṣṇu. And they give protection to the devotees of the Lord, mad-bhaktaḥ, tad-bhaktamataḥ, who are following the principles of devotional service, parebhyaḥ.

How they are protected? First they are protected from the hands of the enemies. Because there are many enemies. Don't think that because one has become Kṛṣṇa conscious there will be no enemy. Of course, Kṛṣṇa conscious person is always ajāta-śatru. There cannot be any enemy. There cannot be enemy in this sense—that no enemy can do any harm to them.

Because they are always protected, no enemy can harm to them. Ajāta-śatru. As Kṛṣṇa is ajāta-śatru, no enemy can harm to Him, there are śatrus or enemies of Kṛṣṇa, as you will read from the Kṛṣṇa . . . thousands and thousands of the demons, from the very beginning of His birth there are enemies.

When Kṛṣṇa is born . . .

(aside) Don't meditate. Just hear. These are important things.

Kṛṣṇa, as soon as He is born, there is enemy present, Kaṁsa. As soon as He is grown little, two months, three months, there is enemy—Pūtanā, Agha, Baka. So even God, Kṛṣṇa, has got enemies, so why not of the devotees? The devotees' enemy . . . just like Hiraṇyakaśipu, he is enemy of his son, five-years-old son.

So you don't think that because one has become Kṛṣṇa conscious, he has no enemy. Don't judge in that way, "Oh, he is Kṛṣṇa conscious. Why there is enemy? Why somebody criticizes him? Why one finds fault with him? Then he is not kṛṣṇa-bhakta." The enemies will do that. That is enemies' business. Even Kṛṣṇa has enemy; why not the . . . just like Jesus Christ, he had enemy. He was killed by the enemy. Sometimes it so happened. Haridāsa Ṭhākura had enemies.

So enemies there will be. Because he has got enemy, therefore it is not that he is kṛṣṇa-bhakta. He is kṛṣṇa-bhakta, even having his enemies, just like Kṛṣṇa, despite having enemies, is Kṛṣṇa. But the difference is that Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa's bhakta will never be defeated by the enemies. That is the distinction. Enemies may have, but he will never be defeated. God or God's devotee cannot be defeated by the enemies. Otherwise, Kṛṣṇa's declaration will be false. He says, kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati (BG 9.31).

Here it is also stated that rakṣanti. Rakṣanti. Rakṣanti means protects. What is the business, the rakṣanti? From where? Parebhyaḥ, from the hands of the enemies. Kṛṣṇa is able—He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead—He can protect Himself.