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 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!