It is also found in Garuda Purana, very interesting, that Lord Shiva was approached by all the Devas, that there was a demon called Andhaka, that they had to destroy him.

So then he took from all the demigods, he took energy, and he made a whole army of celestial energies, with destructive power called…they were called the Matri Danas, the mothers!

But actually they were destructive. Instead of going after the demon, they started to go after the ordinary citizens; They were devouring everything, planets, starts, people, destroying the skies.

So then Lord Shiva, he didn’t know what to do!? So he started to pray to Lord Nrsingadev. I didn’t bring the mantras, beautiful mantra..Lord Shiva praying to Nrsingadev. Om Namo Jagannathaya!..Lord of the Universe..Nrsingaya! So many nice verses that, “You’re..thousands of, brilliant-like thousands of Suns”, and maybe about eight-ten verses, very beautiful..Shiva’s prayers to Nrsingadev in the Garuda Purana.

Then Nrsingadev appeared and Shiva requested Him..”I created these destructive energies. It’s not right that I destroy them, if You can somehow neutralize them I’ll be very grateful.”

So from the Nrsingadev’s mouth, from His tongue manifested thousands of spiritual energies, and then each one of them to one of these destructive energies and neutralized them!

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There are many different Nrsinga temples, in, especially in south India. Ofcourse, here we have our Nrsingapalli, where the Lord Nrsinga was flying over Navadweep then he landed in Nrsingapalli, and he wasn’t approachable after killing Hiranyakashipu, but here he became very approcahable.

So all the devas built cottages around Nrsingadev’s, build Him a cottage and they were serving Him, giving Him bogha and faning and doing all kinds of personal services. So here in Navadweep dham, the Lord is accessable. 

And ofcourse when Murari Gupta was chanting the Vishnu Sahasranam, when he got to Nrsingadev, Lord Caitanya got in the mood of Lord Nrsingadev, ran out with a stick, “Where are the demons?!! Where are the demons, I’ll kill them all!!

People were seeing the huge form of Lord Caitanya with a stick, crying He was going to kill demons and then they all started running. Then Lord  Caitanya when He saw them running, he came back to normal consciousness, then He told Murari Gupta that, “I scared all those people!”. He (Murari gupta) said, “No, just by seeing You in that mood they were all liberated. 

So, Lord Caitanya manifested in Mayapur, in this mood of ‘looking for the demons’, and somehow our Nrsingadev, Sthanu Nrsinga, when He comes out from the column and He is looking for the demons!

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The fight (between Nringadev and Hiranyakashipu) was fairly similar, catching…releasing…flying in the air, fighting with each other. When it was the right time, then Nrsingadev grabbed Hiranyakashipu like a big bug. But this time he sat on his throne, took him and bifurcated him into two…took out the intestine and everything.

And in that lila, it is said that Lakshmidevi could approach (Nringadev). In the Bhagavatam lila He was too angry, even She couldn’t approach. But in this one She could approach. Everyone has little differences. She sat on Nringadev’s lap. The Devas wanted to approach and offer prayers, but it was so intensely effulgent from Nrsingadev, they told…communicated..whispered to Lakshmi that, “Effulgence cooling please!”.

So the Lord has different kinds of jyoti, intense hot jyoti and also cooling jyoti, like moon rays. So then She whispered something in His ear and, He switched the jyoti to ‘cooling’…’cooling mode’. Then everyone came and offered prayers and Prahalad came and offered. Like that..very interesting that, not only one time Nringadev comes.

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So then Nrsingadev, he appeared outside of this big facility, and he was walking through the town..people..all the demons…people living in Hiranyakashipu’s city, they saw Him and got frightened and ran. And He entered into the stadium..whatever you call it, I don’t know…air conditioned facility! And He was flying in the back, in a gigantic form.

And Hiranyakashipu says, “What is this?”, calls his air-force commander, “Tell this, whatever He is, we don’t allow any beasts into our assembly here. He should immediately go out, otherwise if He doesn’t go, kill Him!”

So they went there to tell Nrsingadev to leave! He dint leave. So they went in to attack Him. They say His mane was spread out. If any airplane hit the mane, any missile, it would pulverize into ashes. Just fall down as ashes on the people below. Just like sometimes in the airport you see these, some kind of special lights, bugs fly into and “cheekh”..they get burnt. So so many of these…the whole air-force was destroyed.

Then Hiranyakashipu, he had special missiles. So he told them to release the missile. All kinds of special missiles to immediately destroy anything. So, one after another he was throwing missiles at Nrsingadev. Some would hit His hair and burn. Some Nrsingadev would catch..look at..throw it back..and explode. But nothing was harming Nrsingadev. Finally when all the weapons, all the military, all the air-force, everything was destroyed, then, Hiranyakashipu himself went to attack Nrsingadev.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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In the Padma Purana it mentions that another kalpa, Hiranyakashipu asked, “I can’t be killed by a man, by animal, by deva, not by anything dead or alive”, but he did’nt mention “in our out”. Like in this lila it is not ‘inside or outside’, but in that lila he didn’t mention that. So that’s…didn’t have to be killed in the door-way. So like that some little differences are there in each of the pastimes.

So Hiranyakashipu told Prahalad that, “I’m giving you till 6′oclock, until sundown!” Like in America in the cowboy movies they say, “You got till sundown!.” So I’ll give you till sundown and if by that time your Lord doesn’t come, then you are finished!”

So it is said that there were elaborate arrangements for worshiping Hiranyakashipu. That they built a big air-conditioned facility which was like over a 100km long and 50km wide, very high, so even airplanes could fly inside it.

When one went inside it’s air condition, they didn’t feel heat or cold. Also, without cool, always pleasant, then a special buffet if you’re hungry…you can go, eat what ever you want. But even then if you’re inside you don’t feel very hungry but still if you wanted, you could enjoy.

Then there was a big place.. a big high like altar, with a big throne on it. Hiranyakashipu would sit, and all hundreds and millions of people would be in there and singing Hiranyakashipu kirtan! They didn’t say what was the kirtan you know..”We love you, Hiranyakashipu!” (laughter). “You give us sense gratification, you’re our great guide.” Something like that…I don’t know. Speculating.

So something they had…big gatherings, fountains and beautiful.. So Hiranyakashipu would get worshiped, not as a representative of Visnu but as the supreme himself. But then Prahalad still wouldn’t accept him. So for his mutiny, his impudence, he told him, “You have until sunset, then I’ll kill you!”

TO BE CONTINUED…

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One time, Padma Purana says how when Bhakta Prahalad was preaching about Visnu bhakti and everything then, Hiranyakashipu got very angry and sent his soldiers to kill him. So first they tried…they struck him with a sword. But as soon as the weapon would hit Prahalad, it turned into a blue lotus, Neel Utpal. Blue lotus.

Another soldier came up with a spear and went to stab Prahalad in the heart, “kill him!” But as soon as it touched Prahalad, it turned into a blue lotus. Someone came up with his arrow, “Waargh”..more blue lotuses!

Whatever they would attack him with simply became blue lotuses. So he was covered by a big pile of blue lotuses. There were not able to harm him. Rather they were doing Pushpanjali!

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In the Padma Purana, it mentions that Prahalad, Hiranyakashipu, Nrsingadev, they appear many times. It’s not only this one time. At least 3 different…2 different incarnations in other days of Brahma are described in the Padma Purana.

One of those times he (Hiranyakashipu) worshiped Shiva and got the blessing. Another time he worshiped Brahma again. When he was worshiping Shiva and he wanted Prahalad to admit that he was supreme, then he said that, “Well, ok if you don’t want to admit I’m supreme at least admit that Shiva is supreme..hes above Vishnu.” Prahalad didn’t accept that either.

Prahalad was very fixed up Vaisnava. He knew very clearly who the Supreme was. He got prenatal instruction. In the womb of his mother Kayadu he was instructed by Narada muni.

Narada is very merciful. So he saved Prahalad from the Devas and took her to his ashram, when she was carrying Prahalad, and then instructed her. So later she forgot a lot of the things but Prahalad remembered everything. So before he was born, he was already trained up.

The teachers of Prahalad were amazed where did he get all this information from? And they weren’t teaching all this Visnu-tattva. So they were surprised!