visak sphurantam grahanaturam harir vyalo yathakhum kulisaksata-tvacam

[Guest guest]

Note: On January 21, 1994 Kash asked Shri Mataji to take him to see

Shri Radha. (Recorded in dairy only as: " Kash went to see Goddess

Rada, consort of Lord Krishna. " ) However, no detail of this visit was

ever recorded. A number of Kash's earlier spiritual journeys were

never recorded at all, that is, not even jotted down. His father only

remembers Kash narrating a story of how Shri Mataji showed him one of

the Divine Beings turning Himself into a half-man half-lion figure.

It was only after the birth of Lalita and Shri Mataji's Revelation

about their identities that their father began to write down details

of his experiences. By then about 6 months had passed.

 

" Canto 7, Ch. 8, Text 30

 

visak sphurantam grahanaturam harir vyalo yathakhum kulisaksata-tvacam

dvary urum apatya dadara lilaya nakhair yathahim garudo maha-visam

 

Translation

 

As a snake captures a mouse or Garuda captures a very venomous snake,

Lord Nrsimhadeva captured Hiranyakasipu, who could not be pierced

even by the thunderbolt of King Indra. As Hiranyakasipu moved his

limbs here, there and all around, very much afflicted at being

captured, Lord Nrsimhadeva placed the demon on His lap, supporting

him with His thighs, and in the doorway of the assembly hall the Lord

very easily tore the demon to pieces with the nails of His hands.

 

Purport

 

Hiranyakasipu had received from Lord Brahma the benediction that he

would not die on the land or in the sky. Therefore, to keep the

promise of Lord Brahma intact, Nrsimhadeva placed Hiranyakasipu's

body on His lap, which was neither land nor sky. Hiranyakasipu had

received the benediction that he would not die during the day or at

night. Therefore, to keep this promise of Brahma, the Lord killed

Hiranyakasipu in the evening, which is the end of the day and the

beginning of night, but is neither day or night. Hiranyakasipu had

taken a benediction from Lord Brahma that he would not die from any

weapon or be killed by any person, dead or alive. Therefore, just to

keep the word of Lord Brahma, Lord Nrsimhadeva pierced

Hiranyakasipu's body with His nails, which were not weapons and were

neither living nor dead. Indeed, the nails can be called dead, but at

the same time they can be said to be alive. To keep intact all of

Lord Brahma's benedictions, Lord Nrsimhadeva paradoxically but very

easily killed the great demon Hiranyakasipu...

 

Lord Nrsimhadeva's mouth and mane were sprinkled with drops of blood,

and His fierce eyes, full of anger, were impossible to look at.

Licking the edge of His mouth with His tongue, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, Nrsimhadeva, decorated with a garland of

intestines taken from Hiranyakasipu's abdomen, resembled a lion that

had just killed an elephant...

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had many, many arms, first

uprooted Hiranyakasipu's heart and then threw him aside and turned

toward the demon's soldiers. These soldiers had come in thousands to

fight with Him with raised weapons and were very faithful followers

of Hiranyakasipu, but Lord Nrsimhadeva killed all of them merely with

the ends of His nails.

 

Purport

 

Since the creation of the material world, there have been two kinds

of men — the devas and the asuras. The devas are always faithful to

the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas the asuras are always

atheists who defy the supremacy of the Lord. At the present moment,

throughout the entire world, the atheists are extremely numerous.

They are trying to prove that there is no God and that everything

takes place due to combinations and permutations of material

elements. Thus the material world is becoming more and more godless,

and consequently everything is in a disturbed condition. If this

continues, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will certainly take

action... if this godless civilization continues, it will be

destroyed in a second, simply by the movement of one finger of the

Supreme Personality of Godhead. The demons should therefore be

careful and curtail their godless civilization. "

 

Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 2, Ch. 7 Text 38

(A.C. Bhaktivedanta, Srimad Bhagavatam, BBT, 1987, p. 443-45.)

 

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom Of God, 1999, pages 294-95