30.\u2009\u2009RELIGIOUS<\/p>\n
A person who personally practices the tenets of religion as they are enjoined in the \u015b\u0101stras and who also teaches others the same principles is called religious. Simply professing a kind of faith is not a sign of religiousness. One must act according to religious principles, and by his personal example he should teach others. Such a person is to be understood as religious.<\/p>\n
When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was present on this planet, there was no irreligion. In this connection, N\u0101rada Muni once addressed K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a jokingly, \u201cMy dear Lord of the cowherd boys, Your bulls [bulls are the representation of religion], while eating grass from the pasturing ground and moving on their four legs, have certainly eaten up all the grass of irreligion!\u201d In other words, by the grace of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, religious principles were so well cared for that hardly any irreligious activities could be found.<\/p>\n
It is said that because K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was constantly performing various types of sacrifices and was inviting the demigods from the higher planetary systems, the demigods were almost always absent from their consorts. Therefore the wives of the demigods, regretting the absence of their husbands, began to pray for the appearance of Lord Buddha, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s ninth incarnation, who appears in the age of Kali. In other words, instead of being pleased that Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a had come, they began to pray for Lord Buddha, who is the ninth incarnation, because Lord Buddha stopped the ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices recommended in the Vedas in order to discourage animal-killing. The demigods\u2019 wives thought that if Lord Buddha appeared, all kinds of sacrifices would be stopped and thus their husbands would not be invited to such ceremonies and would not be separated from them.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it is inquired, \u201cWhy don\u2019t the demigods from higher planetary systems come to this earth planet nowadays?\u201d The plain answer is that since Lord Buddha appeared and began to deprecate the performance of sacrifice in order to stop animal-killing on this planet, the process of offering sacrifices has been stopped, and the demigods do not care to come here anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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