Does the fighting spirit also exist in the Supreme Lord?
The Lord replied: O
brāhmaṇas, know that the punishment you inflicted on them was originally
ordained by Me, and therefore they will fall to a birth in a demoniac family.
But they will be firmly united with Me in thought through mental concentration
intensified by anger, and they will return to My presence shortly.
The Lord stated that the punishment inflicted by the sages upon the doorkeepers Jaya and Vijaya was conceived by the Lord Himself. Without the Lord's sanction, nothing can happen. It is to be understood that there was a plan in the cursing of the Lord's devotees in Vaikuṇṭha, and His plan is explained by many stalwart authorities. The Lord sometimes desires to fight. The fighting spirit also exists in the Supreme Lord, otherwise how could fighting be manifested at all? Because the Lord is the source of everything, anger and fighting are also inherent in His personality. When He desires to fight with someone, He has to find an enemy, but in the Vaikuṇṭha world there is no enemy because everyone is engaged fully in His service. Therefore He sometimes comes to the material world as an incarnation in order to manifest His fighting spirit.
In Bhagavad-gītā (BG 4.8)
also it is said that the Lord appears just to give protection to the devotees
and to annihilate the nondevotees. The nondevotees are found in the material
world, not in the spiritual world; therefore, when the Lord wants to fight, He
has to come to this world. But who will fight with the Supreme Lord? No one is able
to fight with Him! Therefore, because the Lord's pastimes in the material world
are always performed with His associates, not with others, He has to find some
devotee who will play the part of an enemy. In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says to
Arjuna, "My dear Arjuna, both you and I have appeared many, many times in
this material world, but you have forgotten, whereas I remember." Thus
Jaya and Vijaya were selected by the Lord to fight with Him in the material
world, and that was the reason the sages came to see Him and accidentally the
doorkeepers were cursed. It was the Lord's desire to send them to the material
world, not perpetually, but for some time. Therefore, just as on a theatrical
stage someone takes the part of enemy to the proprietor of the stage, although
the play is for a short time and there is no permanent enmity between the
servant and the proprietor, so the sura janas (devotees) were cursed by the
sages to go to the asura jana, or atheistic families. That a devotee should
come into an atheistic family is surprising, but it is simply a show. After
finishing their mock fighting, both the devotee and the Lord are again
associated in the spiritual planets. That is very explicitly explained here.
The conclusion is that no one falls from the spiritual world, or Vaikuṇṭha
planet, for it is the eternal abode. But sometimes, as the Lord desires,
devotees come into this material world as preachers or as atheists. In each
case we must understand that there is a plan of the Lord. Lord Buddha, for
example, was an incarnation, yet he preached atheism: "There is no
God." But actually there was a plan behind this, as explained in the
Bhāgavatam.
(SB 3.16.26, Translation and Purport)
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