How can we apply the principle of becoming angry when a devotee is blasphemed?

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Thank you. So, if we are to get angry in a Vaishnavite blasphemy, so how exactly does that anger work? See, any principle has to be seen in the light of the ultimate principle. The ultimate principle is always remember Krishna and never forget Krishna.
Sarovarini Sita also says, etairo ekam karam vartam is a Karmakrishna vismarapam is a Japa Krishna. So, when say somebody is blaspheming a devotee and at that time it is said that we should become angry but we also said we should remember Krishna. So we have to see what basically the whole idea is that how can I best serve in this situation.
So, in a Vaishnavism blasphemy, we shouldn’t think nothing happens. We should think I should have a mood of service. But now how specifically to act in that mood of service.
Even when I have to serve a particular devotee who is being criticized I want to defend that devotee. How do I do that exactly? Sometimes our intervention will make things worse. So, we have to use our God-given intelligence to find out what is the best way to serve.
Little example that Prabhupada gives Arjuna fighting the Kurukshetra war and Hanuman burning Lanka. In those two cases the moral boundaries were very clear. This is wrong, this is right.
And also in that particular situation it was very it was very clear how they should be acted. But in our cases sometimes the moral boundaries themselves may not be very clear. Is this really wrong? Is this really right? Yes, this devotee is criticizing this devotee but maybe this devotee has done something wrong.
I don’t resolve the issues important. Without doing that we may not act in a way that is peaceful. And secondly even when the moral boundaries are clear even after that we have to clearly understand what we are doing.
Otherwise we just make an altercation bigger. So, that’s what happened in Dakshinagiri. When Lord Shiva was disrespected the assistants of Lord Shiva they started burning the sacrifice.
They started destroying the sacred sacrifice. And then they cursed the other party. The other party cursed them.
The whole thing became a mess. our reaction should be such that it is a service to Krishna. But sometimes when a service to Krishna calls for it we can even use anger in Krishna’s service.
But we shouldn’t automatically think that my anger is in Krishna’s service. Or I am defending the devotee and I am very angry for that purpose. Defense also has to be done intelligently.
Sometimes when there are soldiers soldiers they may have a lot of heroism. They may have a lot of patriotism. Soldiers also need discipline.
They may see some enemy attack in a particular place. They may rush over there. That might be a trap and they may die and their whole regiment will be destroyed.
So they have to defend the country. But the defense also has to be done not impulsively. So when you talk about defending a devotee also, how to do it has to be done intelligently.
The principle is that there is something called there is the possibility of using anger in Krishna’s service. But we shouldn’t assume that my anger is being used in Krishna’s service. We have to see whether Krishna’s service is assisted by my anger or it is being used by my anger.