THE AGGRESSOR MUST BE KILLED SAYS PRABHUPADA

According to Vedic injunctions there are six kinds of aggressors: 1) a poison giver, 2) one who sets fire to the house, 3) one who attacks with deadly weapons, 4) one who plunders riches, 5) one who occupies another’s land, and 6) one who kidnaps a wife. Such aggressors are at once to be killed, and no sin is incurred by killing such aggressors.

Prabhupada from Bhagavad-gita 1.36

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Atatayinah, aggressor. Anyone who kidnaps one’s wife is called aggressor. One who sets fire in your house, he’s aggressor. One who is coming to kill you with weapon, he’s aggressor. In this way there is a list of aggression. So aggressor can be killed immediately. If somebody is aggressor, there is no sin in killing aggressor. Enemy who sets fire to the house, administers poison, attacks all of a sudden with deadly weapon, plunders wealth, or usurps agricultural field, or entices one’s wife is called an aggressor. Everything… This is Vedic knowledge. Everything has got definition.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture 1.7.16 Vrndavana, September 14, 1976

What is religious fight? Religious fight means you have got right to kill your aggressor. If somebody takes your property, if somebody sets fire in your house, if somebody kidnaps your wife, or somebody is trying to kill you, they are called aggressor. So aggressor should be killed immediately. It is not that somebody has become an aggressor, and if I say, “Now I have become a Vaisnava, I’ll not be violent. I shall tolerate. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us to be tolerant like the tree or the grass. So I shall become tolerant. Let him do.” Just like Gandhi used to say. Somebody questioned him that “If somebody comes and violates the chastity of your daughter in your presence, what will you do?” He said, “I shall remain nonviolent.” But that is not sastric injunction. This is foolishness.
If somebody is aggressor, he must be killed immediately. Dharma-yuddha.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture 1.8.50 Los Angeles, May 12, 1973

So here the most important word is yudhisthiro dharma-bhrtam varisthah. Maharaja Yudhisthira was known as Dharmaraja, very strictly following religious principles. So he killed… For his sake, sixty-four crores of men were killed in the battlefield of Kuruksetra. So he was not happy although the battle, the fight, was religious fight. It is not whimsical. Just like in the modern days the politicians, they fight unnecessarily to fulfill their desire… Just like in our country, unnecessarily they divided Pakistan, and to fulfill the whims of the leaders, they are fighting with nobody’s gain, neither there is any religious principles.
So fighting whimsically by the politicians, that is not sanctioned. There must be dharma-yuddha. Dharma-yuddha means religious fight, fight on religious principles. So what was the religious principle? (aside:) Hm, where is that mat? (Bengali) Saccidananda. Here it is said, hatva atatayinah. Atatayi means aggressor. If somebody comes to your home to kidnap your wife, to take by force your property or to set fire in your house, he is called atatayi. He should immediately be killed. It is not that nonviolence nonsense. If somebody is coming to attack you unnecessarily, you must kill him first. It is not Vaisnavism… “Oh, this man is coming to kill me. Right. All right, let me embrace him.” No. That is not the rule. When there is atatayi, aggressor, you must fight, you must kill. That is religious.

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