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Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.29

Mayapur, March 7, 1976

 

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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-saktir eka chayeva yasya bhuvanani vibharti durga

[bs. 5.44]. Srsti-sthiti-pralaya. She can do that.

 

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)

 

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