​What does “Yamadutas are afraid to approach devotees” mean?

Answer Podcast

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
So, when you say Yamadutas are afraid to approach a devotee, now why exactly, what is the nature of their fear? See, fear means that everybody has a particular function. Yamadutas have their own role to perform in this world.
And while performing their role, it is that they understand that the Yashodas are not Andhra jurisdiction. Yamadutas are not exactly, they are also within the broad framework of Dharma. They are also acting as agents of Yamraj.
But they are not exactly like spiritual sadhakas who are eager for devotee association. It’s not like that. It’s like say there is a police officer.
The police officer is in the government and then somebody comes to know, okay this person is a big politician, this person is a big so and so, whatever. Then even in any place, say airport security, somebody is a very big person there, you don’t have to scrutinize them. You should approach them.
That means that they are not within their jurisdiction. The fear means that we cannot apply our authority to them. So, it is not that they are afraid in the sense that the devotees are going to curse us and we are going to be punished or something like that.
That is not the kind of fear. Fear basically means that our jurisdiction does not extend to them. Therefore, we cannot impose our authority on them.
And that’s why they keep a distance from the devotees. So, in that sense they are afraid that if they mistakenly apply their jurisdiction on the devotees, then that can, they have had the experience of their being rebuffed, their being defeated. And that’s why they don’t want to even mistakenly apply their jurisdiction on the devotees.
Does that answer your question? So, thank you very much.