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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4606882" data-attributes="member: 120286">To Pasenadi, burdened by responsibility, the Buddha says:   Noble and brahman, commoner and serf, None can evade and play the truant here: The impending doom overwhelms one and all. Here is no place for strife with elephants Or chariots of war or infantry, Nay, nor for war or woven spell or curse Nor may finance avail to win the day.<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/harris/wheel392.html#n-44" target="_blank">44</a> War is not presented as worthy of praise in itself. It is recognized that battle cannot take place without hatred and the wish to kill, in both the mind of aggressor and victim. A Samyutta Nikaya passage illustrates this. A fighting man comes to the Buddha and explains his belief that the warrior who is killed whilst fighting energetically in battle is reborn in the company of the Devas of Passionate Delight. The Buddha's answer condemns this idea as perverted. A warrior is always led by the idea, "Let those beings be exterminated so that they may be never thought to have existed."<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/harris/wheel392.html#n-45" target="_blank">45</a> Such a view can only lead downwards rather than to any heavenly world. The Buddha thus rejects any glorification of war, since there can be no glory when the mind is dominated by hate.</blockquote>

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