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Prabhupada:
mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca manye sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum khadgam pragrhya yad avocad asad-vidhitsus tvam isvaro mad-aparo 'vatu kam harami [SB 7.9.29] |
So before Hiranyakasipu was killed by His Lordship Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada Maharaja never addressed his father as "father," pituh. Now, after his death, he is addressing, pituh, "my father." Because before his death he was demon. Everyone knows. But if a demon is killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes liberated, either demon or anyone. Demons are generally killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They enter into the impersonal Brahman. Therefore there is a verse -- I don't remember exactly now -- that "The monist and the demons, they go to the same place, impersonal Brahman." And what to speak of devotees? Devotees never enter to that impersonal Brahman. Devotees enter directly in the Vaikuntha planet. Mam eti. Mam eti. Krsna said, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhamam paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. If you enter the Vaikuntha planets... There are innumerable Vaikuntha planets, and above them there is the Goloka Vrndavana planet, Krsnaloka. So in either of them, if you enter, then that is not impersonal. Personal. Impersonal Brahman is outside. Although impersonal Brahman is also spiritual existence, but it is outside the Vaikuntha planets. So the demons and the impersonalists, they cannot enter into the Vaikuntha planet. And because they cannot enter into the Vaikuntha planet, they again fall down, again fall down in this material world. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adho 'nadrta-yusmad-anghrayah [SB 10.2.32]. Patanty adhah. Adhah means in this material world. Those who are impersonalists, they may enter into the Brahman effulgence, aruhya krcchrena, with severe execution of penance and austerities. The Mayavadis, they perform severe austerity. Those who are actually Brahmavadis, their mode of life is very, very strict and severe also. So even after severe penances and austerities one enters into the Brahman effulgence, there is no security. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah [SB 10.2.32]. Why they come down? Now, anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah: "Because they did not get the information about Your lotus feet." That means person. When we speak of "feet" or "hand" that means the Supreme Person, a person. But they do not accept the person. That is their difficulty. They'll never accept that the Absolute Truth is person. Therefore they fall down again and again. Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19].
So Prahlada Maharaja says, mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca. The two things are there. When Krsna incarnates there are two things. What are they? Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. Two things. So here two things are being done. One thing is to save Prahlada Maharaja, paritranaya sadhunam, and another thing is vinasaya ca duskrtam yuge yuge sambhavami. So actually vinasaya ca duskrtam, it doesn't require the presence of the Supreme Lord. The nature's arrangement is so strong that anyone can be finished within a second, anyone. There is no need of Krsna's taking so much trouble to come here. But He comes especially for deliverance of the devotee, bhakta-vatsala, and side work, to kill the demons. That is not His business. The Maya, Durgadevi, is sufficiently powerful to kill any demon within a second. There is no difficulty. Simply by ordering Maya... Or Maya does not wait the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She can understand what the Lord wants. Simply little indication, she can kill hundreds and thousands of demons in one stroke. Srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-
So it is not the business of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to come to take this botheration. But why Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared? He appeared... One thing is that mat-prana-raksanam. This is one business. Another business was this. What is that? Sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. Sva-bhrtya. Brahma is bhrtya, servant of Krsna. So he did something very, I mean to say, obnoxious by offering all the benediction to Hiranyakasipu. He was a very cunning materialist. First of all he asked for becoming immortal, but when he learned that that is not possible, then he thought, "I am very intelligent diplomat. I can screw out my fulfillment of desire in a indirect way." So all these people in this material world, they have got a cheating propensity. Out of four deficiency, one deficiency is cheating. Every wants... One wants to cheat his fellow man, man or beast, everyone. Even the dog, cats, they are also. You know the story. The dog wanted to take another flesh from the mouth of another dog, reflection, and he lost both. So this cheating, this misuse of intelligence, is going on, but that is never successful. It will never be successful because Krsna is always more than you. If you are a cheater, but Krsna can cheat you more than what you know. That Krsna knows. Otherwise how Krsna can be...? "God is great." So if you want to cheat Krsna, He can cheat you more than what you know. So that is not possible. Therefore this Hiranyakasipu thought himself to be very intelligent and wanted to cheat Krsna and His servant, but he was cheated actually.
Therefore he said that tad-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. Rsi-vakya. Even the devotee or the servant of Krsna says something, even it is wrong, Krsna upholds this. Kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati [Bg. 9.31]. So even it is wrongly done, still, Krsna fulfills because He thinks that "My servant has promised; it must be fulfilled." Therefore Prahlada Maharaja, in the previous verse he has said, tava bhrtya-parsva. So to serve the servant of Krsna is better than to serve directly Krsna, because if the servant of Krsna promises something, if the servant of Krsna says, "I'll take you to Krsnaloka," you must go there. Even Krsna cannot do that. He can... I mean to say that He does not say very easily. But if a servant... Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah **. Therefore our philosophy is to please the servant of God, tad-bhrtya, bhrtyasya bhrtya. Then it is very nice. The success is...
So here it is said that sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. So Brahma gave him benediction. He asked, "Sir, I'll not die at night." "Yes, that's all right." "I'll not die in daytime." "That's all right." "I'll not die in the sky," "That's all right." "On the land." "That's all right." "On the water." "That's all right." "No animal can kill me." "That's all right." "No man can." "That's all right." So he thought, "Now I am secure. There is no death." But Krsna is so intelligent that He killed him not at night, not in day, not in the sky, not on the land, not on the water, not by animal, not by man -- all things, rtam, yes, everything kept. Still, he was killed. He was killed in the evening, which you cannot say it is day or night. He was killed on the lap of the Lord. You cannot say it is sky, land or water. He did not kill him with the open weapon, but He killed with His nails. In this way you'll find that He kept everything intact, what benediction was given by Lord Brahma, rtam vidhatum. "Yes." At last, of course, He little chastised Brahma that "You should not give such benediction in future. This is botheration for Me." (laughter) But still, He kept His servant's promise intact. The demon was also killed, and the promise given by, a benediction given by Brahma, everything... That is the action of the Supreme Personality. In one stroke He is doing so many things. He's saving Prahlada Maharaja, He's killing Hiranyakasipu, He's keeping intact the promise of Brahma -- everything. That is God's intelligence. Our intelligence, however diplomat we may be, if we want to do anything, another thing is not managed nicely. But Krsna... That is called all potency. When He does something, in a moment He can adjust everything. Even opposite actions, He can adjust. That is Krsna. Therefore He's called all-powerful. We cannot do that.
So mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca manye sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum: "So Your incarnation is there for fulfilling so many objects. And especially, there was challenge by my father, taking his sword." Khadgam pragrhya yad avocad asad-vidhitsuh. Asad-vidhitsuh: "I shall kill you." This is asat-vidhitsuh, to say like that, "I shall kill you." Nobody can kill anyone. This is asat. "I shall give you. I shall kill you. I shall protect you" -- no, you cannot do anything. Balasya neha saranam pitarau. Nobody can do anything unless it is sanctioned by God. You don't promise anything. Therefore a devotee always says, "If Krsna desires, it will be done." That is the fact. That is the fact. So when Hiranyakasipu was very much proud, unnecessarily challenging Prahlada that "You are not accepting my philosophy that I am God. You are searching after another God. All right, let me kill you and I'll see how your God can give you protection..." That was his challenge. Yes. So Prahlada Maharaja knew it, that "Unless Krsna desires, you cannot kill me." Therefore it is asat-vidhi. If one is very much proud and challenges the authority of the Supreme, that is asat; that is not sat. Rakhe krsna mare ke, mare krsna rakhe ke. Prahlada Maharaja knew it, that "You may challenge me, but I know you cannot kill me." He was confident devotee. "All right, "I am also challenging. I am standing here. Let me be killed by you." So that is not possible. Asad-vidhitsus mad-aparo 'vatu kam harami. And so it was challenged by the Hiranyakasipu that "You are searching after another God than me. Now I shall kill you. Let me see how another God..." This is demonic. The demonic means atheist and unnecessarily, falsely, very much proud of their knowledge. This is demonic. This morning as I was talking, the so-called scientists, they are falsely proud and challenge, "There is no God. Everything..." That is demonic. So in the Kali-yuga the demonic spirit is very very prominent. Everyone is thinking, "I am God." So it is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy to cure all these madmen. Madmen.
pisaci paile yena mati-cchanna haya
mayar grasta jivera haya se dasa udaya
Pisaci, ghost-haunted. A man is ghost-haunted; he speaks all nonsense. So in this age, Kali-yuga, they are mostly like that. They speak all nonsense. So we should be careful not to accept their proposal. We shall stick to Krsna consciousness. We shall accept what Krsna says and reject everything. Then we'll be saved.
Thank you very much. (end)
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.29 -- Mayapur, March 7, 1976
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