Re: Atheists are most unfortunate

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Dandavats and obeissances.

Thank you Srinath prabhu for the advice. As aspiring Vaisnavas we should show mercy to all living entities. We do know that mercy given to one living entity is going to be different from mercy given to another. Here is something Bhaktisiddanta Maharaja composed from Upakhyane Upadesa:

The Right Whip for the Right Dog

Samba, the son of Sri Krsna, was born with his wife Jambavathi. Once Samba abducted Laksmana, the daughter of Duryodhana, from the assembly of her probable suitors (svayamvara-sabha). Then four of the Kaurava heroes captured Samba, chained him up and took him along with Laksmana to Hastinapura.
In retaliation, the Yadavas prepared themselves for a battle against the Kaurava. In order to pacify both parties, Baladeva went to Hastinapura along with a team of brahmanas and elderly persons, after pacifying the Yadavas. Baladeva conveyed the order of King Ugrasena to the Kauravas by saying that the Kauravas being fortified with a large number of soldiers had overpowered and thus captured Samba and that he should forthwith be handed over to Baladeva.
Upon hearing this order, the Kauravas became greatly agitated and started arrogantly making insinuations against the Yadavas; and they even indulged in hurling many rude comments against Sri Krsna and Baladeva as well. As a result Baladeva decided to submerge the entire city of Hastinapura into the Ganges by using His powerful plough, and the Kauravas then became so afraid that they took shelter of Lord Baladeva, after bringing Samba and Laksmana in front of Him.

PURPORT

In this respect Sri Sukadeva Goswami said,
nunam nana-mdonnaddhah
santim necchanti asadhavah /
tesam hi prasamo dandah
pasunam lagudo yatha //

Clearly as many as passions of these scoundrels have made them so proud that they do not want peace. Then let them be pacified by physical punishment, as animals are with a stick.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.68.31)
Evil-minded persons who are mad with wealth, followers and the like, obviously are unwilling to make peace. As brute animals are subdued only with the use of the right whip or stick, so these animal-like beings deserve no other treatment than beating with a club. Such rogues are not qualified to pay any heed to good advice whatsoever. So beating with a whip is the only true lesson for them.

NOTE :
Quite often Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Prabhupada used to quote the above-noted verse, strongly advocating appropriate punishment instead of good advice to such critics of Lord Sri Hari, the spiritual masters, and the Vaisnavas, as those people are deemed to be demoniac atheists only.
People who have no respect for any good advice in this world, usually turn a deaf ear to any preaching. It is also offensive to offer such good advice and preaching to them. They should simply be treated on the principle of the right whip for the right dog.
A Vaisnavas tolerate alot of vindication on his person and also overcomes hundreds of insinuations as such. But he is unable to stand any criticism against his spiritual master and the Vaisnava community. It is considered to be a true Vaisnava attitude that one becomes agitated at any criticism hurled against the spiritual master and the Vaisnava community in general.
The impersonalists consider the spiritual masters and the Vaisnavas on the same level as common people only, and as such, they advise one to be falsely tolerant and as submissive as grass whenever confronted with a critical estimate of the spiritual master and the Vaisnavas.
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We can show mercy to the offensive by uttering the holy names of Nityananda and Gauranga if we have to talk to them, but we also must be very strong and intolerant of anything offensive and thoroughly defeat them, otherwise we must leave immediately or we will be implicated in their offenses.
One shouldn't be so open that one allows viewpoints opposed to pure bhakti to be heard or felt in our presence. It is our duty to fight down this garbage...Our duty to the Lord and the Vaisnavas and ourselves.

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Jagannatha Gauranga dasa

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