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Arista – the bull of Dharma, may begin acting wrong

Thakur Bhaktivinode wrote in Sri Krishna Samhita, chapter 7 Verse 21

ইন্দ্রিয়াণি ভজন্ত্যেকে ত্যক্ত্বা বৈধবিধিং শুভম্ ।

নবমে বৃষভাস্তেऽপি নশ্যন্তে কৃষ্ণতেজসা ॥ ২১ ॥

indriyani bhajanty eke tyaktva vaidha-vidhim shubham

navame vrishabhas te ‘pi nashyante krishna-tejasa (21)

Some souls on the path of devotion abandon the auspicious rules of vaidhi practice and engage in ostentatious worship with the aim of satisfying their own senses. These, as the bull-demon who personifies the ninth obstacle to bhagavad-bhakti, are destroyed by the power of Krishna.

অনেক দুর্বলচিত্ত পুরুষেরা বিধিমার্গ ত্যাগ করত রাগমার্গে প্রবেশ করেন। তাহারা অপ্রাকৃত আত্মগত রাগকে উপলব্ধি করিতে না পারিয়া বিষয়বিকৃত রাগের অনুশীলনে বৃষভাসুরের ন্যায় আচরণ করিয়া ফেলেন। তাহারা কৃষ্ণতেজে হত হইবেন। এই প্রতিবন্ধকের উদাহরণ স্বেচ্ছাচারী ধর্মধ্বজীদিগের মধ্যে প্রত্যহ লক্ষিত হয়। ২১।

Many people with weak minds abandon the path of regulated worship and prematurely attempt to enter the path of raga. Being unable to realize the spiritual attachment that belongs to the soul, spellbound by material attachments, they practise rituals while retaining their wrongful attachment to material objects, thus behaving like Vrishabha-asura, the bull-demon. By Krishna’s power, these people who think they practice jaiva-dharma are destroyed.

Examples of this obstacle may be seen every day, epitomised by self-indulgent hypocrites and brahmanas who make a show of their status as religious authorities, but who harbour the intention of amassing wealth and followers. 

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