When adharma continues to exist in the world, what does it mean to say that the Lord’s mission is complete?

Towards the end of the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Chaitanya Charitamrita, the devatas or the Lord’s associates inform the Lord that his mission is now complete. But when adharma continues to exist in the world, what does it mean to say that the Lord’s mission is complete?

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Hare Krishna Question In the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Chaitanya Charita Amrit Devatas come and send an intimation somehow or the other to the Lord that your mission is now complete And so now you can depart from this world Or say, Advaita Acharya sends such a message in the Chaitanya Charita Amrit Now, if the Lord comes to remove Adharma And Adharma continues to exist in this world Then what does it mean to say that the Lord’s mission is complete Shouldn’t the completion of the Lord’s mission mean that All Adharma be removed from the world And obviously, all Adharma is not removed, then how can we say that the Lord’s mission is complete Answer, the Lord’s mission is not to end all Adharma We say, Krishna, when does he come? yadā yadāhi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthāna dharmasya So when Adharma becomes predominant and Dharma becomes Its power becomes negligible Then the Lord comes to correct this imbalance But correcting the imbalance doesn’t mean eradicating Adharma Why? Because this is a world which is provided as an arena For the souls who want to enjoy separate from Krishna To play out their desires for independent enjoyment And that’s why the souls in this world Need to have the choice of Dharma and Adharma Now, this world is like a jail Now, in the jail there is definitely punishment But still, in the jail also some level of order is required So that the residents in the jail can get their punishment And when their term gets over then they can be released But if within the jail also the criminals start doing Especially hardcore criminals start doing severe crimes They start rioting and murdering within the jail And the normal jail authorities are not able to control That uprising of the prisoners Then they may, in that emergency situation Call for some reserve forces May be the army or some border security force Or some other force will come over there And that will help in bringing up the control Now, when they bring the emergency deployed forces Bring the situation under control That doesn’t mean that they end the jail Or they end the criminality of the prisoners in the jail All that it means is that Excessive disorder within the jail has been curbed And the normal order within the jail is restored So similarly, when the demons disrupt The universal order excessively At that time the devatas request the supreme lord to come And when the supreme lord descends He doesn’t eradicate all evil Nor does he eradicate the possibility for all evil Rather he restores dharma Dharmasamsthapanarthaya So we see, vinashaya duskrtam Krishna says that He comes to destroy the duskrti He doesn’t say I come to vinashaya adharma He doesn’t come to destroy adharma Adharma will also be there in the world Because as long as the soul has free will The soul can choose dharma or the soul can choose adharma But kruti means those people who have capacity Those who have power Those who have intelligence But duskrti means they misuse it And they abuse it in a grievous way for themselves And for the world So such excessively disruptive elements the lord destroys And thereby he restores order So then the devatas send a message to the lord That now your mission is over That means the excessively disrupting elements That were there in the universe They have been destroyed And the normal universal order has been established So that is the meaning of the word that the lord has now Lord’s mission is now completed Of course the lord’s mission still continues in this world In terms of his mission of compassion Which is carried out by his pure devotees And by his saintly representatives Who provide knowledge of dharma and adharma So that the souls can wisely choose the path of dharma Develop prema and ultimately return back to Krishna So the mission of a particular incarnation Ends when the circumstantial adharma is curved Those adharmic dushkrtinas are destroyed And the normal dharmic order of the material world is restored But the lord’s generic mission Which extends beyond specific incarnations The lord’s generic mission of compassion To inspire souls to stop misusing their free will And to choose to love him That continues for as long as material existence exists And that continues through his devotees So that mission never ends And continuing that mission Is the responsibility of every generation of devotees Thank you Hare Krishna