“Ksatriya”
“That Kshattriya, O Keshava, is said to be acquainted with his duty who slays in battle his very preceptors, if they happen to be sinful and covetous and disregardful of restraints and vows.” — Grandsire Bhisma (taken from the lecture “Dharma” by Annie Besant)
Monster Logo: “Kill The Rest.”
“The ksatriyas should always be very strong to be able to give protection to the weak. They should not pose themselves as non-violent. If violence is required, they must exhibit it.” — Commentary from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakti-vedanta Swami Prabhupada, taken from “Bhagavad-Gita As It Is,” Chapter 16, Verse 3.
This world, this reality we find ourselves trapped in, has not occurred by any accident. It is indeed the effect of a cause from long long ago. The “Mahabharata War.” also known as “Kurukshetra,” was a civil war between “ksatriyas.” This war also marked the end of an Age of Man and the beginning of another. This war caused the material extinction (in form only, never in spirit) of the “ksatriya” varna. Without ksatryiyas to protect society, of course… eventually it all fell into ruin. Evidenced obviously by the nature of the world you readily see around you. Dishonesty, fraud, all forms of vice and a general lack of Godly virtue best describe this new age we live in called “Kali Yuga.”
On the evening of the ninth day of Kurukshetra, the day that the “Kali Yuga” was born, Lord Krishna addressed a despairing King Yudhishtira:
“But a kshatriya must die to pity and kindness before he can find perfection; and perfection is a hard thing to find. It isn’t that Arjuna is not archer enough to kill Bheeshma, but his heart is soft; not that he cannot kill his Pitama (grandfather), but he will not. He cannot find the detachment within himself, the pure spirit of vairagya.” — Source
As always, I have included the source from this quote. I suggest you give the chapter a read, I find it very touching to the warrior spirit. Alas, that is what this project of mine is about…returning to myself, to you, to us this ‘warrior spirit,’ whose return is inevitable.