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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">So there is no significance. This Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to become immortal. Then, when he was refused by Lord Brahmā that "You cannot become immortal, that is not possible," then, in a roundabout way, he took benediction from Lord Brahmā that he would not die on land, on water, on the sky, no weapon can kill him, no demigod can kill him. In this way, roundabout way, he thought now he has become immortal. So to keep the words of Brahmā as it is, the Lord assumed a form which is not within his description. | | <div class="heading">So there is no significance. This Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to become immortal. Then, when he was refused by Lord Brahmā that "You cannot become immortal, that is not possible," then, in a roundabout way, he took benediction from Lord Brahmā that he would not die on land, on water, on the sky, no weapon can kill him, no demigod can kill him. In this way, roundabout way, he thought now he has become immortal. So to keep the words of Brahmā as it is, the Lord assumed a form which is not within his description. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.2-6 -- Ahmedabad, December 11, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.2-6 -- Ahmedabad, December 11, 1972]]: </span><div class="text">Question (Indian man): I have got a doubt about this Hiraṇyākṣa, Prahlāda's father... | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.2-6 -- Ahmedabad, December 11, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.2-6 -- Ahmedabad, December 11, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Question (Indian man): I have got a doubt about this Hiraṇyākṣa, Prahlāda's father...</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Hiraṇyakaśipu. | | <p>Prabhupāda: Hiraṇyakaśipu.</p> |
| Indian: Hiraṇyakaśipu. Because God has taken the shape of a Narasiṁha Swami and then He finishes him by tearing his stomach. And then He takes all the intestines and pushes out. That is the picture normally shown. What is the significance and how this is actually, what it is meaning? Why He is this sort of picture is being given and everywhere I see this picture in town and everywhere right from my childhood. I have been seeing this. What does this signify? | | <p>Indian: Hiraṇyakaśipu. Because God has taken the shape of a Narasiṁha Swami and then He finishes him by tearing his stomach. And then He takes all the intestines and pushes out. That is the picture normally shown. What is the significance and how this is actually, what it is meaning? Why He is this sort of picture is being given and everywhere I see this picture in town and everywhere right from my childhood. I have been seeing this. What does this signify?</p> |
| Prabhupāda: It is no significant. Keśava dhṛta-nara-hari-rūpa. | | <p>Prabhupāda: It is no significant. Keśava dhṛta-nara-hari-rūpa.</p> |
| :tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śṛṅgaṁ | | :tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śṛṅgaṁ |
| :dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam | | :dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam |
| :keśava dhṛta-nara-hari-rūpa, nṛsiṁha-rūpe | | :keśava dhṛta-nara-hari-rūpa, nṛsiṁha-rūpe |
| :jaya jagadīśa hare ** | | :jaya jagadīśa hare ** |
| So Kṛṣṇa assumed the nara-hari, nṛsiṁha-rūpa, half-man, half-lion. So these are description in the śāstras. | | <p>So Kṛṣṇa assumed the nara-hari, nṛsiṁha-rūpa, half-man, half-lion. So these are description in the śāstras.</p> |
| :rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan | | :rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan |
| :nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu | | :nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu |
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| :govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam... | | :govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam... |
| :(Bs. 5.39) | | :(Bs. 5.39) |
| So there is no significance. This Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to become immortal. Then, when he was refused by Lord Brahmā that "You cannot become immortal, that is not possible," then, in a roundabout way, he took benediction from Lord Brahmā that he would not die on land, on water, on the sky, no weapon can kill him, no demigod can kill him. In this way, roundabout way, he thought now he has become immortal. So to keep the words of Brahmā as it is, the Lord assumed a form which is not within his description. And instead of killing him with a weapon He killed him by the nails. Nail is not considered as a weapon. So He killed him between day and night, because he also took benediction that "I shall not die during daytime or nighttime." So God, Kṛṣṇa, is so intelligent that we may try to become immortal by so many scientific brain, but there will be some flaw and he wants, must be killed. This is God's intelligence | | <p>So there is no significance. This Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to become immortal. Then, when he was refused by Lord Brahmā that "You cannot become immortal, that is not possible," then, in a roundabout way, he took benediction from Lord Brahmā that he would not die on land, on water, on the sky, no weapon can kill him, no demigod can kill him. In this way, roundabout way, he thought now he has become immortal. So to keep the words of Brahmā as it is, the Lord assumed a form which is not within his description. And instead of killing him with a weapon He killed him by the nails. Nail is not considered as a weapon. So He killed him between day and night, because he also took benediction that "I shall not die during daytime or nighttime." So God, Kṛṣṇa, is so intelligent that we may try to become immortal by so many scientific brain, but there will be some flaw and he wants, must be killed. This is God's intelligence</p> |
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