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Prayer to Lord Nrsimha
keshava dhrta-narahari-rupa jaya jagadisa hare
"O Keshava! O Lord of the universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of
half-man, half-lion! All glories to You! Just as one can easily crush a wasp
between one's fingernails, so in the same way the body of the wasp like demon
Hiranyakashipu has been ripped apart by the wonderful pointed nails on Your
beautiful lotus hands."
"The fourth incarnation is Nåsiàhadeva. Nåsiàhadeva appeared to save Prahläda
Mahäräja, who was five-years-old boy and he was being tortured by his atheistic
father. So He appeared from the pillar of the palace as a half-man, half-lion.
Because this Hiraëyakaçipu took benediction from Brahmä that he’ll not be killed
by any man or any animal. So the Lord appeared neither man nor animal. This is
the difference between the Lord’s intelligence and our intelligence. We are
thinking that we can cheat the Lord by our intelligence, but the Lord is more
intelligent than us. This Hiraëyakaçipu wanted to cheat Brahmä by indirect
definition. First of all he wanted to become immortal. Brahmä said, “That is not
possible because even I am not immortal. Nobody in this material world is
immortal. That is not possible.” So Hiraëyakaçipu, the demon... The demons are
very intelligent. He thought that “Round about way I shall become immortal.” He
prayed to Brahmä that “Please give me the benediction that I shall not be killed by
any man or any animal.” Brahmä said, “Yes, that is all right.” “I shall not be killed
in the sky, on the water or on land.” Brahmä said, “Oh yes.” “I shall not be killed
by any man-made weapons.” “That’s all right.” In this way he utilized his
intelligence in so many ways just to come to the conclusion of being immortal. But
the Lord is so cunning that He kept intact all the benediction given by Brahmä,
still he was killed. He said that “I’ll not be killed either during daytime or night.”
Brahmä said “Yes.” So he was killed just in the evening, just in the junction of day
and night. You cannot say it is day or night. He took the benediction that “I shall
not be killed in the sky, on the water, on the land.” So he was killed on His lap. He
took the benediction that “I shall not be killed by any man-made or any God-made
weapons.” That was given, “All right.” So he was killed by the nails. In this way, all
the benedictions were kept intact, still he was killed. Similarly, we may make plan,
we may make very advancement in scientific knowledge, but the killing process of
nature will be there. Nobody can escape. By our intelligence we cannot escape.
The four principles of material existence means birth, death, old age and disease.
We can manufacture many medicines, many weapons, many means, many
methods, but you cannot escape these four principles of material existence,
however great you may be. That was proved by Hiraëyakaçipu. Hiraëyakaçipu was
one of the stalwart materialistic and he wanted to live forever, enjoy, but he also
could not live. Everything was finished" (A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
18th February 1970.
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