#Hiraṇyakaśipu

[harekrishna108]

☀KING HIRANYAKASHIPU ☀

“Hiraṇyakaśipu became the conqueror of the entire universe. Indeed, that great demon conquered all the planets in the three worlds — upper, middle and lower — including the planets of the human beings, the Gandharvas, the Garuḍas, the great serpents, the Siddhas, Cāraṇas and Vidyādharas, the great saints, Yamarāja, the Manus, the Yakṣas, the Rākṣasas, the Piśācas and their masters, and the masters of the ghosts and Bhūtas. He defeated the rulers of all the other planets where there are living entities and brought them under his control. Conquering the abodes of all, he seized their power and influence."~Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.5-7

[chaitanyavijnanam]

శ్రీమద్భగవద్గీత - 591: 16వ అధ్., శ్లో 20 / Bhagavad-Gita - 591: Chap. 16, Ver. 20

🌹. శ్రీమద్భగవద్గీత - 591 / Bhagavad-Gita - 591 🌹 ✍️. శ్రీ ప్రభుపాద, 📚. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ 🌴. 16వ అధ్యాయము - దైవాసుర స్వభావములు - 20 🌴 20. ఆసురీం యోనిమాపన్నా మూఢా జన్మని జన్మని | మామప్రాప్యైవ కౌన్తేయ తతో యాన్త్యధమాం గతిమ్ || 🌷. తాత్పర్యం : ఓ కొన్తేయా! అసుర యోనుల యందే మరల మరల జన్మించి అట్టివారు నన్నెన్నడును పొందజాలక క్రమముగా అతి హేయమైన జన్మలకు పతనము నొందుదురు.

🌷. భాష్యము : భగవానుడు పరమకరుణా మయుడనెడి విషయము తెలిసినదే. కాని అతడు అసురస్వభావము గలవారి యెడ మాత్రము ఎన్నడును దయాస్వభావమును చూపడని ఈ శ్లోకమున మనము గాంచుచున్నాము. అసురస్వభావులు ప్రతిజన్మ యందును అవే అసురయోనుల యందు ఉంచబడుదురనియు, భగవానుని కరుణను పొందజాలక వారు పతనము నొందుదురనియు స్పష్టముగా తెలుపబడినది. ఆ విధముగా వారు చివరకు శునక, సూకర, మార్జాలముల వంటి హేయజన్మలను పొందుదురు.

అట్టి దానవస్వభావులు తరువాతి జన్మలో ఎట్టి స్థితి యందును భగవత్కరుణను పొందు అవకాశమే లేదని ఇచ్చట స్పష్టముగా వివరింపబడినది. అట్టివారు క్రమముగా పతనము నొంది శునక, సూకరములుగా జన్మింతురని వేదములందు తెలుపబడినది. భగవానుడు దానవస్వభావుల యెడ దయాళువు కానిచో అతనిని దయాపూర్ణుడని ప్రకటించరాదు కదాయని ఎవరైనను వాదించు నవకాశము కలదు. అట్టి ప్రశ్నకు సమాధానముగా పరమపురుషుడు ఎవ్వరియెడను ద్వేషమును కలిగియుండడని వేదాంత సూత్రము లందు మనము గాంచవచ్చును. అనగా అసురస్వభావులను అతి నీచజన్మల యందు పడద్రోయుట యనునది ఆ భగవానుని కరుణకు వేరొకరూపమై యున్నది.

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🌹 Bhagavad-Gita as It is - 591 🌹 ✍️ Sri Prabhupada, 📚 Prasad Bharadwaj 🌴 Chapter 16 - The Divine and Demoniac Natures - 20 🌴 20. āsurīṁ yonim āpannā mūḍhā janmani janmani mām aprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yānty adhamāṁ gatim

🌷 Translation : Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O son of Kuntī, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence.

🌹 Purport : It is known that God is all-merciful, but here we find that God is never merciful to the demoniac. It is clearly stated that the demoniac people, life after life, are put into the wombs of similar demons, and, not achieving the mercy of the Supreme Lord, they go down and down, so that at last they achieve bodies like those of cats, dogs and hogs. It is clearly stated that such demons have practically no chance of receiving the mercy of God at any stage of later life.

In the Vedas also it is stated that such persons gradually sink to become dogs and hogs. It may be then argued in this connection that God should not be advertised as all-merciful if He is not merciful to such demons. In answer to this question, in the Vedānta-sūtra we find that the Supreme Lord has no hatred for anyone. The placing of the asuras, the demons, in the lowest status of life is simply another feature of His mercy. Sometimes the asuras are killed by the Supreme Lord, but this killing is also good for them, for in Vedic literature we find that anyone who is killed by the Supreme Lord becomes liberated. There are instances in history of many asuras – Rāvaṇa, Kaṁsa, Hiraṇyakaśipu – to whom the Lord appeared in various incarnations just to kill them. Therefore God’s mercy is shown to the asuras if they are fortunate enough to be killed by Him.

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[thevaisnava]

By developing genuine devotional qualities, one’s understand of God becomes clear and perfect arjuna uvacasenayor ubhayor madhyeratham sthapaya me ‘cyutayavad etan nirikse ‘hamyoddhu-kaman avasthitankair maya saha yoddhavyamasmin rana-samudyame “Arjuna said: O infallible one, please draw my chariot between the two armies so that I may see who is present here, who is desirous of fighting, and with whom I must contend in this great battle attempt.” The next point is that Arjuna wanted to see with whom he had to fight. He had no desire to fight. That will be explained. He was fighting unwillingly. Unwillingly. Because he is a Vaiṣṇava, unnecessarily he does not want to kill, although he is kṣatriya. It is his duty. Whenever there is discrepancy, killing, as representative of Kṛṣṇa… Kṛṣṇa has got two business. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtam [Bg. 4.8]. He has got two businesses. One business is to give protection to the devotees, sādhu, sādhu. Sādhu means devotee. Sādhu does not mean simply by changing dress, saffron color, and smoking beedies. That is not sādhu. Sādhu means devotee. One who is devotee… That is explained in many śāstras. Sadhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇām. Sādhu-bhūṣaṇām. titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-bhūtānām ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ [SB 3.25.21] This is the qualification of sādhu. Sādhu is titikṣava, tolerates all kinds of miserable conditions. He is sādhu. Because this is a place of miserable condition. A sādhu learns how to tolerate. Sādhu is never disturbed. Yasmin sthito guruṇāpi duḥkhena na vicālyate [Bg. 6.20-23]. A sādhu, who has got the shelter of Kṛṣṇa, if he is placed in the severest type of dangerous condition, he is never disturbed. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja, his father was putting him in so many dangerous conditions, even he was supplying with poison. He knew that "My father has given me poison to drink. All right, let me drink. If Kṛṣṇa likes, He will save me. I am now put into such dangerous position. I have to drink. Father is giving poison. Who can check?" And such a big powerful Hiraṇyakaśipu. The mother cried, requested… He forced the mother, Prahlāda's mother, "Give your son this poison." So she begged so much, but he was a rascal demon. "No, you must give." So the mother knew, the son knew that the rascal father is giving this poison. What can he do, a small child? "All right, let me drink." Guruṇāpi duḥkhena na vicālyate. He is not agitating. "All right, if Kṛṣṇa likes, I will live." This is the position of sādhu. He is not disturbed. Titikṣavaḥ. In all circumstances, he is tolerant. That is sādhu. Sādhu does not become disturbed. Titikṣavaḥ. At the same time, kāruṇikāḥ. He is himself disturbed, but he is merciful to others. Just like Jesus Christ. He is being crucified, and still he is merciful: "God, these people do not know what they are doing. Please excuse them." This is sādhu. He is personally being disturbed by the demons, but still, he is merciful to the general people. They are suffering for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So even up to the point of death, he is trying to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness. "Let the people be benefited. Eh, what is this material body? Even if I am killed, I am not killed. This body is killed, that's all." This is sādhu. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ. In one side he is tolerant, and other side, merciful. In the material world, when one man is disturbed, he cannot do any beneficial work to any others. He is disturbed. "No, I am very much disturbed. Don't talk with me." No. But sādhu still goes on benefiting the people in general. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ [SB 3.25.21]. And what kind of benefit? The so-called rascals humanitarian work? No. Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 5.29]. He is beneficial to all kinds of living entities. Not this rascaldom, daridra-nārāyaṇa. Just like one rascal has manufactured this daridra-nārāyaṇa. The poor man has become Nārāyaṇa, and the goat Nārāyaṇa is killed for their feeding. Not this kind of sādhu.

Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām. A sādhu will not allow any kind of killing. See in the Christian religion, it is first injunction is "Thou shalt not kill." If you want to become religious… They are simply killing, and still, they are claiming "Christian." What kind of Christian? Simply their business is killing. So it is very difficult to find out a Christian, although they are claiming, I am "Christian." It is very difficult. Because their business is killing. And Lord Jesus Christ ordered, first order is, "Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not covet." Who is following? So sādhu is suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām. Why he should allow animal killing? They are also living entities, but for their benefit, the so-called sādhu says, "The animal has no soul." What is this nonsense? Animal has no soul? Why? What is the difference between animal and man? What are the symptoms of possessing the soul? They are all equal. The man also eats, the animal also eats. The man also sleeps, the animal also sleeps, the man also have sex life, the animals also have sex life. The man also defends, the animals also defends. So where is the deficiency that you say that the animal has no soul? Imperfect knowledge. Or making adjustment for their own benefit. Now they are making correction: "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not murder." That means it will come to human being. But the actual commandment is "Thou shalt not kill." But these Christian people, they are making some amendment, "Thou shalt not murder." Because murder will apply to the killing of human beings. But Lord Jesus Christ never said like that. "Thou shalt not kill." It is applicable both for human being and for animal or even for trees. Unnecessarily you cannot kill. That is sādhu. Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 5.29]. "Don't kill my brother, but you can kill my neighbors." Not like that. He is not sādhu. Sādhu is kind to all living entities. Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to become kind to everyone. Therefore we say, "No meat-eating." Meat-eating means killing the animals. Killing the animals. Why you shall kill animals? You have to take Kṛṣṇa prasādam. Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati, tad aham aṣnāmi [Bg. 9.26]. Kṛṣṇa says… Kṛṣṇa is God. He can eat everything, everything. Kṛṣṇa ate fire, you know. There was forest fire in Vṛndāvana. All the cowherds boys they became very much frightened, "Kṛṣṇa." "Yes, I'm ready." He ate up all the fire. So for Kṛṣṇa He could eat anything He likes. He is God. But still, He recommends, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati. Why? Because we have to take Kṛṣṇa's prasādam, so therefore He is recommending, "These things you can give Me." Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ. So that is our food. We are devotees of Kṛṣṇa. We are meant for eating the remnants of foodstuff offered to Kṛṣṇa. That is our… Jihvā, tāra madhye… If you want to conquer the tongue, then you fix up your mind that you shall not take anything which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa. Then your tongue will be controlled. Tāra madhye jihvā ati lobhamaya sudurmati. Tongue is the bitterest enemy of the living being. The tongue is dragging. Jihvā. "Kindly give me this immediately. Kindly give me this wine immediately. Kindly give me this tea immediately. Kindly give me this cigarette immediately. Kindly give me this meat." Why? Control. Kṛṣṇa says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [Bg. 9.26]. So we have to take prasādam, eat Kṛṣṇa prasādam. Then naturally the other things will be negativated. This is the position. Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 5.29]. So if all human beings become vegetarian, not vegetarian, but eater of the Kṛṣṇa's prasādam, all these liquor house and slaughterhouse and brothels will be closed. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We want to close these nonsense places of sinful life: brothels, illegitimate sense gratification, sex relationship, prostitution. If we are embarrassed with this sinful life, there is no possibility of becoming again acyuta. We remain cyuta, fallen. We remain fallen.

It is not so easy thing that "I do everything, whatever I like." Some rascals preach that "Oh, religion has nothing to do with your eating. You can eat anything you like, and still you become a religious man." This is all nonsense. Nobody can become religious man if he is attracted by sinful activities. It is not possible. You must stop sinful activities. That is first condition. Otherwise you cannot understand what there… People… Perhaps, in this Kṛṣṇa conscious, except this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement, all rascals, they do not know what is God. They have no clear conception of God. Because they are sinful. We can give the name, address and everything of God, clear conception, not vague idea, "God may be like this, God may be like that." Why maybe? He is God. veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.30] Clear conception. The śāstra, Brahma-saṁhitā, clear description of God, veṇuṁ kvaṇantam. He is playing on flute. It is not that the Muralīdhara, Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṇa, has been imagined by some poet. No, it is described in the śāstra, the form of the Lord. He is busy in playing flute, veṇuṁ kvaṇantam. Aravinda dalāyatākṣaṁ [Bs. 5.30], His eyes are just like petals of the lotus flower. Veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda, barhāvataṁsa, there is a peacock feather on His head. Kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ, and He is so beautiful that His beauty can cut down thousands of Cupids. Cupid is supposed to be the most beautiful in this material world. Kandarpa-koti-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.30]. Clear conception. This is the description of God in the śāstra. And when God came, Kṛṣṇa came on this planet, the same description. He is playing on flute, He has got the feather, peacock feather. So this painting of Kṛṣṇa is not an artist's imagination. It is exactly the form. So here is the form of the Lord. Here is the name of the Lord. Here is the activities of the Lord. This is clear conception. A sādhu knows what is God. Or sādhu cannot know. They are thinking, "God must be like this, God may be like this, He must be a very old man," because adi-puruṣa. He is the first living… In this way… So you cannot create God by imagination. That is not possible. God is God, always. You have to know simply what is God. He is never cyuta. God never becomes fallen down from His original position. The original position is, God describes Himself, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat: [Bg. 7.7] "There is no more superior authority than Me." That is God. One, if he is controlled, how he can be God? The supreme controller is God, the supreme controller is Kṛṣṇa. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ [Bs. 5.1]. Īśvaraḥ means controller, and paramaḥ means supreme. And who is that? Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says also, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg. 7.7]. So He is acyuta. He keeps His position. He never falls down. We are all fallen souls. Because our position, our Acyuta position is to serve Kṛṣṇa. Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. The same example: Just like this finger is part and parcel of my body. Its business is to serve the body. That is the business. There is no other business. A finger can pick up a rasagullā and keep it here. The finger cannot eat. Similarly, we cannot eat directly. That is our diseased condition. We have to offer Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa eats, if we eat that, then we become energized. Just like you rasagullā put into the mouth. When it goes to the stomach, the finger immediately becomes reddish. The finger enjoys. Not only the finger, the eyes enjoy, the legs enjoy, because the energy is distributed. Directly we cannot be energized by eating. We must eat Kṛṣṇa's prasādam. This is principle. Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa dāsa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. So if we serve Kṛṣṇa, that is our Acyuta position. If we deny to serve Kṛṣṇa, that is vicyuta, fallen condition. Acyuta and vicyuta. So to become Kṛṣṇa conscious means acyuta-gotra.

Acyuta-gotra. Gotra, perhaps you do not know. Gotra is the family tradition. According to Vedic civilization, everybody has got gotra. Gotra means of the same family, of ṛṣis, gotra, from the ṛṣis. So we have to become acyuta-gotra, again belonging to the family of Kṛṣṇa. Now we are fallen. Therefore we have forgotten that we belong to the family of Kṛṣṇa. When we revive our consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that "I belong to the Kṛṣṇa's family…" Kṛṣṇa is not alone, eko bahu śyāma. He wants to enjoy. So we are family members of Kṛṣṇa, not void. That is another rascaldom. Why Kṛṣṇa should be alone? He is so powerful, He is so opulent, have you got any experience that a powerful person, opulent person is alone? Where is that example? Any rich man, any powerful man, any king, any lord, oh, he has got so many associates. So how Kṛṣṇa can be alone? Kṛṣṇa is never alone. Therefore you will find always Kṛṣṇa with the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa with the cowherds boys, Kṛṣṇa with Arjuna. Kṛṣṇa is never alone. So these are the conditions of becoming acyuta. So Arjuna knows all these things because he is a devotee. Therefore particularly he is addressing Kṛṣṇa, senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me acyuta [Bg. 1.21]. That's all right. Thank you very much. Source: Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Bhagavad-gītā 1.21-22, London, July 18, 1973

[gnsasram]

NRSIMHA CATURDASI

tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śṛṅgaṁ

dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam

keśava dhṛta-narahari-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare

Oh señor Kesava! O señor del universo! Oh señor Hari! Que haz adoptado una forma mitad hombre y mitad león, todas las glorias a ti! Con la misma facilidad que uno aplasta una avispa entre las uñas, tu abriste en dos el cuerpo del demonio Hiraëyakasipu, con las afiladas uñas de tus manos de loto.

Jay Nrsimhadeva Bhagavan!

Jay Prahlada Maharaja

Jay Srila Prabhupada

Jay Srila Gurudeva

[prabhupadanugas]

REPEAT: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4, Verse 8: परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥८॥ paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.  According to Bhagavad-gītā, a sādhu (holyman) is a man in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A person may appear to be irreligious, but if he has the qualifications of Kṛṣṇa consciousness wholly and fully, he is to be understood to be a sādhu. And duṣkṛtam applies to one who doesn’t care for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such miscreants, or duṣkṛtam, are described as foolish and the lowest of mankind, even though they may be decorated with mundane education; whereas another person, who is one hundred percent engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is accepted as sādhu, even though such a person may neither be learned nor well cultured. As far as the atheistic are concerned, it is not necessary for the Supreme Lord to appear as He is to destroy them, as He did with the demons Rāvaṇa and Kaṁsa. The Lord has many agents who are quite competent to vanquish demons. But the Lord especially descends to appease His unalloyed devotees, who are always harassed by the demonic. The demon harasses the devotee, even though the latter may happen to be his kin. Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, he was nonetheless persecuted by his father; although Devakī, the mother of Kṛṣṇa, was the sister of Kaṁsa, she and her husband Vasudeva were persecuted only because Kṛṣṇa was to be born of them. So Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared primarily to deliver Devakī, rather than kill Kaṁsa, but both were performed simultaneously. Therefore it is said here that to deliver the devotee and vanquish the demon miscreants, the Lord appears in different incarnations. https://prabhupada.io/books/bg/4/8 https://youtube.com/c/HearSrilaPrabhupada https://www.bhagavad-gita.us/famous-reflections-on-the-bhagavad-gita/ https://sites.google.com/view/sanatan-dharma https://m.facebook.com/HDG.A.C.Bhaktivedanta.Svami.Srila.Prabhupada.Uvaca/ #bhagavata https://www.instagram.com/p/CikFOkWLUuh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Srila Prabhupada on Hitler

Srila Prabhupada — „There were so many asuras (demons) in this world. There were Lenin, there were Stalin, there were Hitler, there were Hiraṇyakaśipu.” (Lecture on SB 1.8.20, Mayapura, September 30, 1974) Srila Prabhupada — „Nobody is enjoying the result of civilization created by atheists like Ravana, Kansa, Aurangzeb, Napoleon or Hitler.” (‘Back to Godhead’ […]Srila Prabhupada on Hitler

[buzz-london]

Happy Narsimha Jayanti (day Lord Narsimha came to rescue Prahalda 

NAMASTE NARASIMHAYA (1) namas te narasiḿhāya prahlādāhlāda-dāyine hiraṇyakaśipor vakṣaḥ- śilā-ṭańka-nakhālaye 

I offer my obeisances to Lord Narasimha, who gives joy to Prahlada Maharaja and whose nails are like chisels on the stone like chest of the demon Hiranyakasipu. 

(2) ito nṛsiḿhaḥ parato nṛsiḿho yato yato yāmi tato nṛsiḿhaḥ  bahir nṛsiḿho hṛdaye nṛsiḿho nṛsiḿham ādiḿ śaraṇaḿ prapadye. 

Lord Nrsimha is here and also there. Wherever I go Lord Nrsimha is there. He is in the heart and is outside as well. I surrender to Lord Nrsimha, the origin of all things and the supreme refuge.                 

(3) tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śṛńgaḿ dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛńgam keśava dhṛta-narahari-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare. 

O Kesava! O Lord of the universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of half-man, half-lionl All glories to You! lust as one can easily crush a wasp between one's fingernails, so in the same way the body of the wasp like demon Hiranyakasipu has been ripped apart by the wonderful pointed nails on Your beautiful lotus hands. 

https://youtu.be/_3Myhrqv34A

[harinamashram]

Canto 7: La ciencia de Dios. Capítulo 5: “Prahlāda Mahārāja, el santo hijo de Hiraṇyakaśipu”. El pequeño hijo del demonio denota una devoción natural, que enfurece al demonio y trata de matarlo, sin éxito. Sus profesores demoniacos ofrecen volverle materialista.

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Kṣraum ("Narasiṁha lullaby")

Kṣraum (“Narasiṁha lullaby”)

(1)śrīmad-akalaṅka-paripūrṇa-śaśi-koṭi-śrīdhara manohara saṭā-paṭala kāntapālaya kṛpālaya bhavāmbudhi-nimagnaṁdaitya-vara-kāla narasiṁha narasiṁha O Narasiṁha, Narasiṁha! You are the husband of Śrī (Lakṣmī), who is as splendid as millions of spotless full moons. Beautiful, dear Lord with abundant mane, You are the death of the greatest demon Hiraṇyakaśipu. O ocean of mercy, I am sinking into the…

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Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva appeared, not for killing the Hiraṇyakaśipu, but to come and show Prahlāda Mahārāja, "Don't be afraid. I am here. Don't be afraid. I'll give you protection." So actually, Kṛṣṇa comes for this purpose Lecture on BG 4.8 -- Bombay, March 28, 1974) please Chant: "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare" 16 mala everyday. (Speak n chant n focus on the words) And I guarantee you difference within 30 days & Within 6 months your life will change entirely. It's my Guarantee #krishna #ram #harekrishna #Radhakrishna #radha #radhe #radheradhe #prabhupada #iskcon #srilaprabhupada #iskcontemple #radhakrishn #vrindavan #mathura #barsana #kanha #lordkrishna #chanting #haribol #vishnu #RadhaRani #Krsna #Jagannath #VedicTales #bhagavadgita #jaishriram #hanuman #ramayana #rama #shriram https://www.instagram.com/p/CPNBoYTLQ0l/?utm_medium=tumblr

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☀ SHRI NRSIMHADEVA ॐ ☀        

”I offer my obeisances to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, who is always giving bliss to His devotees like Prahlada Maharaja and chiseling at the hearts of demons like Hiraṇyakaśipu. The devotee always sees Lord Nṛsiṁha everywhere. Lord Nṛsiṁha is within and without. Therefore let us take shelter of Lord Nrsimha.”~Śrī Nṛsiṁha Praṇāma

[chaitanyavijnanam]

శ్రీ శివ మహా పురాణము - 868 / Sri Siva Maha Purana - 868

🌹 . శ్రీ శివ మహా పురాణము - 868 / Sri Siva Maha Purana - 868 🌹 ✍️. స్వామి తత్త్వ విదానంద సరస్వతి 📚. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ 🌴. రుద్రసంహితా-యుద్ద ఖండః - అధ్యాయము - 35 🌴 🌻. శంఖచూడుని దూత శివునితో సంభాషించుట - 5 🌻

మహేశ్వరుడిట్లు పలికెను - మేము భక్తులకు వశవర్తులమై ఉండెదము. మేము ఎన్నటికీ స్వతంత్రులము కాము. భక్తుల కోర్కెచే వారి కార్యములను చేయువారమే గాని, ఏ ఇక్కరి పక్షమునైనూ స్వీకరించువారము గాము (40). పూర్వము ప్రళయసముద్రములో విష్ణువు బ్రహ్మ యొక్క ప్రార్థన నాలకించి దైత్యవీరులగు మధుకైటభులతో సృష్ట్యాదియందు యుద్ధమును చేసెను (41). పూర్వము భక్తులకు హితమును చేయు విష్ణువు దేవతల ప్రార్థనను మన్నించి ప్రహ్లాదుని కొరకై హిరణ్యకశపుని సంహరించెను (42). పూర్వము నేను కూడా దేవతల ప్రార్థనను మన్నించి త్రిపురులతో గొప్ప యుద్ధమును చేసి వారి పురములను భస్మమొనర్చిన వృత్తాంతము లోక విదితమే (43). సర్వేశ్వరి, సర్వజగన్మాత యగు దుర్గ పూర్వము దేవతలు ప్రార్థించుటచే శుంభాదులతో జరిగిన యుద్ధములో వారిని సంహరించెను (44). ఈనాడు కూడా దేవతలందరు బ్రహ్మను శరణు జొచ్చిరి. ఆ బ్రహ్మ, మరియు విష్ణువు దేవతలతో గూడి నన్ను శరణు పొందిరి(45). ఓ దూతా! బ్రహ్మ, విష్ణువు మొదలగు వారి ప్రార్థనను మన్నించి నేను సర్వేశ్వరుడనే అయిననూ ఈ దేవతల యుద్ధము కొరకు వచ్చియుంటిని (46).

మహాత్ముడగు శ్రీ కృష్ణునకు నీవు అనుంగు సహచరుడవు. ఇంతకు ముందు సంహరింపబడిన రాక్షసు లెవ్వరూ నీతో సమానమైన వారు కారు (47). ఓ రాజ! నాకు నీతో యుద్ధమును చేయుటలో అధికమగు సిగ్గుఏమి గలదు? ఈశ్వరుడనగు నన్ను దేవతలు వినయముతో ప్రార్థించుగా, దేవకార్యము కొరకు వచ్చియుంటివి (48). నీవు వెళ్లి నా ఈ మాటలను శంఖచూడునకు చెప్పుము. ఆతడు తనకు యెగ్యముగు రీతిలో చేయుగాక! నేను దేవకార్యమును చేసెదను (49). మహేశ్వరుడగు శంకరుడిట్లు పలికి విరమించెను. అపుడు శంఖచూడుని దూత లేచి ఆతని వద్దకు వెళ్లెను (50).

శ్రీ శివ మహాపురాణములోని రుద్రసంహిత యందు యుద్ధఖండలో శివదూత సంవాదమనే ముప్పది అయిదవ అధ్యాయము ముగిసినది (35).

సశేషం....

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🌹 SRI SIVA MAHA PURANA - 868 🌹 ✍️ J.L. SHASTRI, 📚. Prasad Bharadwaj 🌴 Rudra-saṃhitā (5): Yuddha-khaṇḍa - CHAPTER 35 🌴 🌻 The conversation between Śiva and the emissary of Śaṅkhacūḍa - 5 🌻

Lord Śiva said:—

40. We are subservient to our devotees. We are never independent. We carry out their tasks at their wish. We are not the partisans of any one in particular.

41. Formerly the fight of Viṣṇu with the excellent Daityas Madhu and Kaiṭabha in the ocean of dissolution was due to the prior request of Brahmā.

42. For the sake of Prahlāda, at the request of gods, Hiraṇyakaśipu was slain by him acting in the interest of his devotees.

43. Formerly I fought with the Tripuras and reduced them to ashes, only at the request of the gods. It is well known.

44. Formerly Pārvatī, the Mother of all, the goddess of all, fought with Śumbha and others and killed them only at the request of the gods.

45. Even today, the gods have sought refuge in Brahmā. And he along with the gods and the lord Viṣṇu has sought refuge in me.

46. O Emissary, paying heed to the request of Viṣṇu, Brahmā and others, I, though lord of all, have come here in the battle of the gods.

47. Really you are the foremost of the comrades of Kṛṣṇa, the great soul. Those Daityas who had been formerly killed are not on a par with you.

48. What is there excessively shameful in my fight with you, O king? I the lord have been urged humbly to carry out the task of the gods.

49. Go to Śaṅkhacūḍa and tell him what I have said. Let him do what is proper. I shall carry out the taṣk of the gods.

Sanatkumāra said:—

50. On saying this, Śiva the great god, stopped. The emissary stood up and returned to Śaṅkhacñḍa.

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[demonessryu]

There’s a whole Hindu myth about this! I have to google it up to find it. I’m not a Hindu, so if I offend anyone, please let me know. Taken from wikipedia:

[...] Hiraṇyakaśipu, hated Vishnu and wanted revenge. He undertook many years of austere penance to gain special powers. Thereafter, Brahma offered Hiraṇyakaśipu a boon. Hiraṇyakaśipu asked, "Grant me that I not die within any residence or outside any residence, during the daytime or at night, nor on the ground or in the sky. Grant me that my death not be brought about by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving created by you. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by any great snake from the lower planets." Brahma granted him the boon, and Hiraṇyakaśipu gained these powers.

Hiraṇyakaśipu, once powerful and invincible with the new boon, began to persecute those who were devotees of Vishnu. Hiraṇyakaśipu had a son, Prahlāda, who [...] became a devotee of Vishnu. This angered Hiraṇyakaśipu, who tried to kill the boy—but with each attempt, Prahlāda was protected by Viṣṇu's mystical power. [...]

Hiraṇyakaśipu pointed to a nearby pillar and asked if 'his Viṣṇu' is in it [...] Prahlāda then answered, "He was, He is and He will be." [...]

Hiraṇyakaśipu [...] smashed the pillar with his mace, and [...] Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṃha appeared from it and moved to attack Hiraṇyakaśipu in defense of Prahlāda. In order to kill Hiraṇyakaśipu and not upset the boon given by Brahma, the form of Narasiṃha was chosen. Hiraṇyakaśipu could not be killed by human, deva or animal. Narasiṃha was none of these, as he is a form of Viṣṇu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He came upon Hiraṇyakaśipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night) on the threshold of a courtyard (neither indoors nor out), and put the demon on his thighs (neither earth nor space). Using his sharp fingernails (neither animate nor inanimate) as weapons, he disemboweled and killed the demon king.

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Narasimha and  Hiraṇyakaśipu

“No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me!” hits you with a rock

[prabhupadanugas]

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् | धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे || ८ || paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium. According to Bhagavad-gītā, a sādhu (holyman) is a man in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A person may appear to be irreligious, but if he has the qualifications of Kṛṣṇa consciousness wholly and fully, he is to be understood to be a sādhu. And duṣkṛtam applies to one who doesn't care for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such miscreants, or duṣkṛtam, are described as foolish and the lowest of mankind, even though they may be decorated with mundane education; whereas another person, who is one hundred percent engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is accepted as sādhu, even though such a person may neither be learned nor well cultured. As far as the atheistic are concerned, it is not necessary for the Supreme Lord to appear as He is to destroy them, as He did with the demons Rāvaṇa and Kaṁsa. The Lord has many agents who are quite competent to vanquish demons. But the Lord especially descends to appease His unalloyed devotees, who are always harassed by the demonic. The demon harasses the devotee, even though the latter may happen to be his kin. Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, he was nonetheless persecuted by his father; although Devakī, the mother of Kṛṣṇa, was the sister of Kaṁsa, she and her husband Vasudeva were persecuted only because Kṛṣṇa was to be born of them. So Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared primarily to deliver Devakī, rather than kill Kaṁsa, but both were performed simultaneously. Therefore it is said here that to deliver the devotee and vanquish the demon miscreants, the Lord appears in different incarnations. https://gloriousgita.com/verse/en/4/8 https://bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-04-08.html https://youtube.com/c/HearSrilaPrabhupada https://www.bhagavad-gita.us/famous-reflections-on-the-bhagavad-gita/ https://sites.google.com/view/sanatan-dharma https://m.facebook.com/HDG.A.C.Bhaktivedanta.Svami.Srila.Prabhupada.Uvaca/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CidKqhBKRvi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[iskcon-ar]

Srila Prabhupada, en conversacion con Pañcadraviḍa le informa sobre las prohibiciones religiosas en el pais

Mayapur, 24 de Febrero de 1977

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Prabhupāda: No light?

Hari-śauri: No, the power's gone off again. They're not running the generator for some reason.

Prabhupāda: No, in daytime there is no need.

Rādhā-vallabha: This is 1.1.

Prabhupāda: Oh! Thank you very much. First Canto.

Hari-śauri: First part.

Rāmeśvara: This completes the new style for the First Canto.

Prabhupāda: What is that new style?

Rāmeśvara: Well, the cover art has changed a little so you can read the titles, and it fits in the series. And also the captions are on one side; the pictures are on the other side.

Prabhupāda: Part One. That is this . . .

Rādhā-vallabha: This is Naimiṣāraṇya.

Hari-śauri: This is the same one.

Prabhupāda: Same.

Rādhā-vallabha: Naimiṣāraṇya.

Prabhupāda: So new pictures added.

Rādhā-vallabha: Paintings, no.

Rāmeśvara: Only in 1.2 and 1.3 we added some new pictures. But in 1.1 there were so many pictures, it wasn't necessary.

Rādhā-vallabha: Just photographs, no paintings.

Rāmeśvara: And now each book also has its own index in the back. That was also a reason for reprinting the First Canto.

Prabhupāda: This is?

Rādhā-vallabha: Kurukṣetra.

Prabhupāda: Kurukṣetra.

Rādhā-vallabha: 2.2.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Rāmeśvara: This is the new artwork for 2.2 on the cover. Same idea. Each book now has captions on one side, pictures on the other; the standard new typeface.

Prabhupāda: Second Canto, Part Two.

Hari-śauri: The same color as the Sixth Canto?

Rādhā-vallabha: No.

Prabhupāda: This is San Francisco?

Rādhā-vallabha: This is Rukmiṇī-Dvārakādhīśa in Los Angeles. Los Angeles.

Prabhupāda: Los Angeles. Hmm.

Rāmeśvara: We printed fifty thousand copies of the 1.1 and twenty thousand copies of the 2.2.

Prabhupāda: This is selling more?

Rāmeśvara: First Canto we want to sell more, because it . . .

Prabhupāda: It introduces.

Rāmeśvara: Yes.

Rādhā-vallabha: This is 9.1.

Rāmeśvara: That's the new book.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Hari-śauri: Ninth Canto.

Rāmeśvara: That painting was painted by Muralīdhara, of Ambarīṣa at the abhiṣeka ceremony.

Prabhupāda: How many copies?

Rāmeśvara: Twenty thousand.

Prabhupāda: Twenty, minimum.

Rādhā-vallabha: 9.2 will be printed this way for the first time as well.

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Rādhā-vallabha: Same thing.

Hari-śauri: This is the same one, 9.1.

Rāmeśvara: The back cover is painted by Parīkṣit.

Rādhā-vallabha: This is the verse that you always quote, on the first page.

Prabhupāda:

sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor

vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane

karau harer mandira-mārjanādiṣu

śrutiṁ cakārācyuta-sat-kathodaye

(

SB 9.4.18

)

Very good. So everything is there. So let me take prasādam, then we can talk some more.

Rāmeśvara: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Thank you very much.

Jayatīrtha: One more thing. This is the first British BTG.

Prabhupāda: Oh, very nice. I did not see this picture.

Rāmeśvara: It is a new painting for Bhāgavatam 1.2. First Canto, Part Two. Parīkṣit painted it.

Prabhupāda: It is an American printing?

Jayatīrtha: This is British.

Prabhupāda: This is British.

Rāmeśvara: They printed it in England. How many copies?

Jayatīrtha: Hundred thousand copies.

Prabhupāda: Oh. Competition. (laughter)

Rāmeśvara: He's trying.

Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes. This transcendental competition must go on. Thank you.

Rādhā-vallabha: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. (break)

Prabhupāda: Let us try to give a substantial platform of civilization. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Hari-śauri: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (breaks)

Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Yajñād bhavati parjanyaḥ (BG 3.14). (sound of thunder and heavy rain) This time rainfall is very beneficial for crops. This is the way of living. You perform yajña, there will be rain. And as soon as the ground is moist, you can produce anything, whatever you want. Sarva-kāma-dughā mahī (SB 1.10.4). From the field, you can get all your necessities of life. The first necessity is the food grain. So food grain you can eat, and the rejected grass portion, you give to the cows. So both the animal and the man get sufficient food. And the cows will give you nice milk, and from milk you can get butter, ghee, yogurt, so many nice sweetmeat. And there is ghee, and here is food grain, then you make kacaurī, purī, samosā. Then sufficient foodstuff, nice, palatable, nutritious. First necessity is āhāra. You get sufficient āhāra, then make little cottage for shelter. Just like there is rainfall; now you require little . . . (thunder sounds) Āhāra, nidrā, bhaya and sex. So marry. Then the whole problem is solved. And then, rest time you save and advance in Kṛṣṇa conscious . . . this is civilization. Why you create unnecessary necessities of life and become complicated and forget Kṛṣṇa? What is this civilization? Rascal civilization. Instead of giving protection to the cows, you are cutting the throat. Is that civilization? So this is a civilization of duṣkṛtina, means mischief-monger. Therefore they must suffer, and suffering. And asuras are being created. And Kṛṣṇa's business is to kill the asuras. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām (BG 4.8). This is going on. This is material nature. Asuras are being created, and the whole plan is to kill them. So struggle for existence. The asuras, they want to live. Mahiṣāsura, he's struggling with the weapons of Māyā, Durgā. He'll be failure, but still—ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham (BG 3.27)—by false egotism he's thinking, "I shall conquer over the material . . ." That is scientist, so-called scientist. Asuras, they are planning that "We shall do without nature's control." That is mūḍha. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā dura . . . (BG 7.14). They cannot conquer it. That is not possible. But you are struggling. You do not want the control of nature. And nature is so strong . . . now it is raining. Within one hour they can vanquish the whole world. Doesn't take time. If there is one cyclone and heavy rain, then you are put into danger. So long it is mild, it is all right. And as soon as becomes ferocious, then finish you. What you'll control the nature? When there is no rain, you cannot bring in rain; and when there is heavy rain, you cannot stop it. Then where is your control? You rascal, you think like that, "We shall control over nature." This is your rascaldom. You cannot control over. So everything has its use, and how to use it properly, that is all described in the Bhagavad-gītā. And if you take instruction of Kṛṣṇa and ultimately surrender to Him, that is success of life. Otherwise, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest . . . nature is fittest. You'll die; nature will be . . . you are not fit to fight with the nature. That is asura temperament. And that will never be successful. So many asuras came. Formerly there was Hiraṇyakaśipu, Rāvaṇa, Kaṁsa and others. In the recent years there was Hitler, there was Churchill, there was Lenin and Gandhi and so on, so on. For few days, then gone, "Get out. Bās. Finished." Big, big scientists, big, big asuras, big, big leaders, what they could do? Tribhir guṇamayair bhāvaiḥ. Where is Bhagavad-gītā? Read from the . . . tribhir guṇamayaiḥ. Seventh Chapter.

Tripurāri:

tribhir guṇamayair bhāvair

ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat

mohitaṁ nābhijānāti

mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam

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BG 7.13

)

"Deluded by the three modes (goodness, passion and ignorance), the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible."

Prabhupāda: Hmm. What is the purport?

Tripurāri: Purport: "The whole world is enchanted by three modes of material nature. Those who are bewildered by these three modes cannot understand that transcendental to this material nature is the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. In this material world everyone is under the influence of these three guṇas and is thus bewildered.

"By nature living entities have particular types of body and particular types of psychic and biological activities accordingly. There are four classes of men functioning in the three modes of material nature. Those who are purely in the mode of goodness are called brāhmins. Those who are purely in the mode of passion are called kṣatriyas. Those who are in the modes of both passion and ignorance are called vaiśyas, and those who are completely in ignorance are called śūdras. And those who are less than that are animals or animal life. However, these designations are not permanent. I may either be a brāhmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya or whatever—in any case, this life is temporary. But although life is temporary and we do not know what we are going to be in the next life, still, by the spell of this illusory energy, we consider ourselves in the light of this bodily conception of life, and we thus think that we are American, Indian, Russian or brāhmin, Hindu, Muslim, etc. And if we become entangled with the modes of material nature, then we forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is behind all these modes. So Lord Kṛṣṇa says that men, deluded by these three modes of nature, do not understand that behind the material background is the Supreme Godhead."

"There are many different kinds of living entities—human beings, demigods, animals, etc.—and each and every one of them is under the influence of material nature, and all of them have forgotten the transcendent Personality of Godhead. Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance, and even those who are in the mode of goodness, cannot go beyond the impersonal Brahman conception of the Absolute Truth. They are bewildered before the Supreme Lord in His personal feature, which possesses all beauty, opulence, knowledge, strength, fame and renunciation. When even those who are in goodness cannot understand, what hope is there for those in passion and ignorance? Kṛṣṇa consciousness is transcendental to all these three modes of material nature, and those who are truly established in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are actually liberated."

Prabhupāda: How many copies they are printing?

Brahmānanda: One hundred thousand.

Prabhupāda: One hundred thousand. This is the first?

Brahmānanda: I think so.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Volume One. Was there any difficulty for getting our present edition here?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think one of the points that Jayatīrtha Prabhu was making is that some of the . . . he found that some of the editions were especially orientated to American reading public. For example, there was an edition about bicentennial celebration. So that celebrates the American . . .

Prabhupāda: Independence.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . . independence from Great Britain. So that is not a very popular matter. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So that's actually a fact. There are a number of articles occasionally which are more American orientated. He felt that that was a strong point.

Hṛdayānanda: Also it's cheaper.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's cheaper.

Hṛdayānanda: He's printing twenty-four pages only. So Britain has . . .

Prabhupāda: No, it is very nicely done, very nice.

Hṛdayānanda: He's gotten a very low price.

Brahmānanda: He doesn't have the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam included.

Prabhupāda: That he should. That is not American or English. (laughter) Next issue, they can add. Where is Jayatīrtha Prabhu? So your South America, there is some trouble?

Pañcadraviḍa: No. No trouble. Just in Argentina. The trouble is finished now. We're out. (laughs)

Prabhupāda: Trouble is finished?

Pañcadraviḍa: And we're out. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: That is called mora mera gale. To call a man by ill names, the last word is "You die."

Pañcadraviḍa: But it is not just us. The government threw out the Pentacostals, the Jehovah's Witnesses, these Children of God, Guru Maharaj-ji's group, us. It's a very fascist government and very pro-Catholic. So between the Catholic . . . now also we have heard that they have passed one law that nobody in the country is allowed to keep a beard. And the Jews, they all keep beards there because they're very orthodox Jews. Part of their religion, they don't cut the hair. So now no keeping beards, that's also even against the Jews. There are several million Jews. The government is very difficult to work with. When we went to the Ministry to ask them about this, they said they could not do nothing. The Ministry already, some people there were talking, "No, this government is very destructive. The next government will be more constructive. You try when the next government comes." So this is the way they talk down there. They change governments very often.

Brahmānanda: There's also a lot of German influence there. When the Nazis left Nazi Germany, they all went to Argentina.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Hṛdayānanda: So now every day they are killing so many people. It's become a very dangerous place. In the streets every day they are shooting so many people.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Here's Jayatīrtha.

Pañcadraviḍa: Actually, though, we are learning something. We have to work with these kind of people more and more in different countries.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (to Jayatīrtha) So this is very fine, but there is no Bhāgavata?

Jayatīrtha: Śrīla Prabhupāda, it's only being published quarterly . . .

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Jayatīrtha: . . . and we thought to publish one section every three months, people would lose the track of the thing. That's why we . . . the British economy is so bad that we had to give fairly inexpensive literature. So it's either a question of printing sixteen pages color and eight page Bhāgavata, or twenty-four pages color. We couldn't do twenty-four pages color and eight pages Bhāgavata. We thought that as it was quarterly . . .

Prabhupāda: That's all right. So you have printed one . . .

Jayatīrtha: One hundred thousand.

Prabhupāda: It is going on? Hmm?

Jayatīrtha: Nicely.

Prabhupāda: So one hundred thousand you'll have to sell within three months.

Jayatīrtha: That's correct, yes. We're also selling many medium books.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Jayatīrtha: We're selling many Īśopaniṣads, and now we're printing also Nectar of Instruction and Perfection of Yoga for distribution.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. You have already ordered for printing?

Jayatīrtha: We've already printed Īśopaniṣads, and just now they're preparing Nectar of Instruction and Perfection of Yoga for printing.

Prabhupāda: In London there are very big, big press.

Jayatīrtha: Yes. Quite good prices too, better than American prices. We're having our Swedish Bhagavad-gītā also printed in England. It's going to the press while we're here in Māyāpur.

Prabhupāda: How is that vegetable market? There is wholesale vegetable market.

Jayatīrtha: Not a very big one.

Prabhupāda: Near I saw there is very big press.

Jayatīrtha: London's a fantastic city for spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Ācchā?

Jayatīrtha: Very good.

Prabhupāda: On the whole, they like it?

Jayatīrtha: Yes, especially our kīrtana parties on Oxford Street and Picadilly Circus. They like that very much. Sometimes we get a thousand people standing around our kīrtana party, Picadilly Circus and Leicester Square, places like that.

Prabhupāda: So what about that house?

Jayatīrtha: That house? We've purchased now, and we're fixing it up.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Jayatīrtha: We're fixing it up just now for using. We should be using it within about two months.

Prabhupāda: What is the name of that place?

Jayatīrtha: Soho Square.

Prabhupāda: The same house which you showed me?

Jayatīrtha: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So you have taken money from my account? No.

Jayatīrtha: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We didn't need to.

Prabhupāda: So there we shall have restaurant?

Jayatīrtha: Yes. It should be very successful. Restaurants . . . some of the restaurants in that area sell . . . vegetarian restaurants, there's one that sells about ten thousand pounds (sterling) a week of food. So ours may not be quite that big.

Prabhupāda: So we have already started restaurant? No.

Jayatīrtha: Not yet. It takes some time. We just got permission finally, the planning permission from the city. That was a technicality. But we just got that. There was no problem. Now we're starting to do the refurbishing. We have to do a lot of painting and . . .

Prabhupāda: So we shall move from Bury Place there? No.

Jayatīrtha: No. We want to build a very nice temple and cultural center in London. The Indian community is very anxious for that actually. Because they're spread out, the Indians, in Wembley and Southall and different areas. And they have a few very lousy local temples. But they know that we're the only ones who can build a very nice place, so they're interested in helping us build a very big place as close to the center of London as possible.

Prabhupāda: So you have got any place? No.

Jayatīrtha: Right now we're looking for land, and I brought this Raṇcora . . . where's Raṇcora? Anyway, Raṇcora, he's architect and artist. He's going to work, hopefully, with Saurabha. Saurabha is anxious also for helping do some preliminary drawings.

Prabhupāda: Now unless you get land, how you can do?

Jayatīrtha: Well, we thought some things, we'd have some drawings showing . . .

Prabhupāda: But so far I know, it is very difficult to get vacant land.

Jayatīrtha: Yes. Depends on how close to the center you are. We'll probably have to get a piece of property that has an old warehouse or something on it and demolish it. There's no . . . nothing is vacant, but a lot of the buildings are so old that no one wants to use them.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That you can get. There are many old houses—I do not remember what is that neighborhood—that is forlorn practically.

Jayatīrtha: Hmm. There are many places like that. So we hope to find a place like that, about three quarters of an acre, half an acre to three quarters of an acre, and build a building, taller building, with the temple and auditorium and museum and hotel rooms.

Prabhupāda: Like New York. Like New York?

Jayatīrtha: Not quite as big as New York. (laughs)

Prabhupāda: That house is very good, our New York temple.

Jayatīrtha: We need about half that size, but bigger, nicer temple and meeting hall. We can rent out the . . . for weddings. People are paying five hundred pounds a day for renting just one room, a big room, and they can't get sufficient rooms in London. So they told us that they could book for two years in advance at five hundred pounds a day every weekend, Saturday, Sunday, for a wedding hall. If we can arrange to do the wedding for them, then they'll pay us an additional couple hundred pounds. There's a lot of . . . so many Indians there.

Prabhupāda: Yes, there are Indians there.

Jayatīrtha: Lot of scope. They're coming to like our movement very much there now also, respecting. There's no more complaint. Before, there were some complaints.

Pañcadraviḍa: This last Sunday in New York for Śiva-rātri there were so many Indians there. There were thousands of Indians in that temple. It was very exciting just to see so many people come in.

Prabhupāda: This is good chance of United Nation—Indian, Americans, Englishmen, German, all mixed together.

Jayatīrtha: In our Amsterdam temple, out of the, er . . . there's about sixty devotees, and they're from seventeen different countries. Seventeen different nationalities are represented in the temple. I think there's nowhere else where so many different nationalities are living together.

Prabhupāda: No. This is the nucleus of United Nation, real. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1), to understand everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. That is the basic principle of United Nation. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā, samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu (BG 18.54). In that stage there can be equality. Otherwise not.

Pañcadraviḍa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the text on the back of this magazine here, the back advertisement for the Gītā . . .

Prabhupāda: Here?

Pañcadraviḍa: . . . is very nice wording. It's referring to India.

Prabhupāda: This. Oh, yes. This is the fact.

Brahmānanda: Headline. "This book is sacred to 650,000,000."

Prabhupāda: "650,000,000" means?

Brahmānanda: Indians.

Jayatīrtha: That's about the number of . . . according to the books, that's the number of Hindus in the world. I wrote that text. That impresses people.

Pañcadraviḍa: Because they are saying this is not religion, and we're saying, "How you can say it's not religion when already 650,000,000 people are following it?"

Prabhupāda: The practical example is there. In everywhere they are coming to the temple. So in England there is opposition?

Jayatīrtha: Not really. There's none of this deprogramming or any trouble like that. People are pretty peaceful. We have a pretty good reputation. The government doesn't oppose us.

Prabhupāda: They oppose our Ratha-yātrā.

Jayatīrtha: Our Ratha-yātrā, yes. I don't think they'll ever stop opposing. This year when I went to the Ratha-yātrā, when we had the Ratha-yātrā, I saw that their feeling is so strong about it I don't think they'll ever let us have a good cart on that route. I wish they would, but I don't think they will. They told us that the only way they'll let us have a big cart is if we change the route. So actually that's one thing I wanted to discuss with you while I was here, about whether . . . if we had the Ratha-yātrā in the Indian district, like Wembley . . .

Prabhupāda: No.

Jayatīrtha: . . . then we could have a big cart.

Prabhupāda: No.

Jayatīrtha: Otherwise not.

Prabhupāda: That is not . . .

Jayatīrtha: The problem is, with a small cart, people are not very attracted to the Ratha-yātrā.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Jayatīrtha: With a small cart there's nothing so exciting about the Ratha-yātrā that people will come for miles, at least English people. They won't come just to see this small cart. In San Francisco these three huge carts makes it so exciting and colorful that people come just to see the carts.

Prabhupāda: They will not allow.

Jayatīrtha: No. I don't think so. They're very . . . because it's a safety thing, they say. The street is such . . . and they won't stop the traffic, so the traffic is still going on.

Brahmānanda: Has there been any accident on the previous ones?

Jayatīrtha: Well, that argument won't work on the British bureaucracy. There hasn't been any accident in the past, nor in the future there will be any accident. They . . . simply they don't want a big cart.

Prabhupāda: But Wembley quarter is not good.

Jayatīrtha: No, that quarter is not so good. There may be other quarters where they'd do it, but . . .

Hṛdayānanda: New Dvārakā comes down to San Francisco.

Prabhupāda: We can make another Ratha-yātrā from Bhaktivedanta Manor to Wembley and other places.

Jayatīrtha: Hmm. Actually we were thinking to have . . . if we kept a small cart and had Ratha-yātrās, one in London, one in around Birmingham area—there's a lot of Hindus in that area will come—one in the north around . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Jayatīrtha: . . . Liverpool-Manchester area.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That will be nice.

Jayatīrtha: Take the Ratha-yātrā along—we have this bus program—do publicity with the bus program, and then, at the end of the month, have a Ratha-yātrā somewhere in the city. I think if we keep the small cart, do at least three Ratha-yātrās this summer . . .

Prabhupāda: Our big car is there?

Jayatīrtha: It's still standing.

Prabhupāda: So that we can move? No, that will not be possible.

Jayatīrtha: No.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Could you do big ones in other places?

Jayatīrtha: It may be. We have to investigate.

Hṛdayānanda: There's no place in London where you can do big carts?

Jayatīrtha: It depends. In the Hindu quarters I don't think they could stop us. But in other quarters they would.

Prabhupāda: The Watford area there are many Hindus.

Jayatīrtha: Few in Watford. Mostly down by Wembley, which is not very far from Watford. It's only three stops on the tube. I think they may let us do a big cart there. And in other cities they may also. We just came to this idea recently to do them in other cities, because especially in the Mid . . . it's called the Midlands. There is Leicester and Coventry and many cities with many Hindus there. And those people in those cities are sometimes . . . they're more pious than the London Hindus. They're very . . . one of our life membership makers in the north made twenty-four members in two weeks.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Jayatīrtha: In the north they're very active there, and they're very anxious for some interest by us for them. Anyway, at least we could have three smaller Ratha-yātrās this year in different places.

Prabhupāda: Simply by Ratha-yātrā, you can attract many people. So still we are going to that Trafalgar Square?

Jayatīrtha: Yes. It's hard, though.

Prabhupāda: The crowd is the same? No. Diminished.

Jayatīrtha: Well, the crowd that's in Trafalgar Square is mostly there already. That's the thing, because there's always people in Trafalgar Square. So when the Ratha-yātrā comes they stay, and they make benefit by ajñāta-sukṛti. But the number of people that are out in the parade is not very great. I've been thinking how it can be increased, but because they keep us in one small lane about as wide as this room along this road, and then we had to have this small cart, and then the people are spread out for so long. A lot of Hindus come, but sometimes they are so far away from the cart it's hard to keep the kīrtana very nice, so they can't see the Deities. And after being in San Francisco for so many years at the Ratha-yātrā, I found I didn't feel so enthusiastic. That San Francisco festival is so elevated, so wonderful. Therefore I was thinking that if we could move it . . .

Hṛdayānanda: . . . (indistinct)

Jayatīrtha: Not in the same way.

Pañcadraviḍa: Do we use like a marching band in the Ratha-yātrā? If we used a marching band, a lot of people come. You know, like a parade, like they use in the parades, with trumpets and drums and all these things.

Prabhupāda: I think you can introduce in Africa also. (laughter)

Brahmānanda: We want to introduce in Mombassa. We've already been discussing it.

Prabhupāda: (looking at magazine) This warfield painting is done very nicely.

Jayatīrtha: I think so.

Prabhupāda: Who has done?

Jayatīrtha: Parīkṣit.

Prabhupāda: Oh. Actual.

Jayatīrtha: People I've shown it to like it much better than this picture. It's more realistic. Has a very classical look.

Prabhupāda: This is a protest against Gandhi's nonviolence, (laughter) bogus nonviolence. So it is a protest against that idea.

Jayatīrtha: Yes. This is not a nonviolent picture.

Prabhupāda: I do not know how he wanted to draw nonviolence from this idea. (chuckles) This is going on, distorting the real fact. Politics without violence is impossible. There is a Bengali proverb, naste base gun tata: This girl has come to the stage for dancing, and (s)he is pulling her veil. (laughs) She has to dance freely, and what is the use of . . .? Nasta base gun tata. In politics, nonviolence, there is no history. The Britishers took it an opportunity to continue their ruling.

Lokanātha: He wasn't even political man.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Lokanātha: Gandhi wasn't even political man, because politics means there has to be violence. He did not . . .

Prabhupāda: No, impartially studying, he endeavored for upliftment of the South African Indians, South Africans, Johannesburg.

Brahmānanda: In Durban he started.

Prabhupāda: Ah, in Durban. That was failure. The Indians haven't got any position still.

Jayatīrtha: None.

Prabhupāda: None. So that twenty years' failure, and here also he started that nonviolence—thirty years. In 1917 he came here from Africa, and the nonviolent, noncooperation . . . actually, this Hitler's war in 1947 helped India to become independent, the Hitler's cooperation with Subhas Bose, INA. When he organized the soldiers, then Britishers thought, "No more chance." Then they left India. Not for the nonviolence. These are artificial things, in politics nonviolence.

Lokanātha: You two were working together?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Lokanātha: Yourself and Gandhi worked together for some time?

Prabhupāda: In the beginning I was, 1920. No, everyone, every young man joined. (someone yelling in background) What is that? So ārati you can join, yes.

Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. (end)

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More to say.

1. Matsya.

The central characters of this legend are the fish (Matsya) and Manu. The character Manu is presented as the legislator and ancestor king. One day, water is brought to Manu for his ablutions. In the water is a tiny fish. The fish states that it fears being swallowed by a larger fish and appeals to Manu to protect it. In return, the fish promises to rescue Manu from an impending flood. Manu accepts the request. He puts the fish in a pot of water where it grows. Then he prepares a ditch filled with water, and transfers it there where it can grow freely. Once the fish grows further to be big enough to be free from danger, Manu transfers it into the ocean. The fish thanks him, tells him the timing of the great flood, and asks Manu to build a ship by that day, one he can attach to its horn. On the predicted day, Manu visits the fish with his boat. The devastating floods come. Manu ties the boat to the horn. The fish carries the boat with Manu to the high grounds of the northern mountains (interpreted as the Himalayas). The lone survivor Manu then re-establishes life by performing austerities and yajna (sacrifices). The goddess Ida appears from the sacrifice and both together initiate the race of Manu, the humans.

It's just like Noah's ark.

2. Kurma.

Idk much about this one, other than the fact that it's the form of a tortoise, and appeared during the samudra manthan, which is basically the gods churning the ocean to get amrit.

My mom just told me, while I was writing the 6th one, that during the manthan, they were using a mountain to churn the ocean. However, it kept sinking. So Vishnu took the form of kurma and balanced the mountain on his shell, bearing it's weight.

3. Varaha.

Varaha is most commonly associated with the legend of lifting the Earth (personified as the goddess Bhudevi) out of the cosmic ocean. When the demon Hiranyaksha stole the earth and hid her in the primordial waters, Vishnu appeared as Varaha to rescue her. Varaha slew the demon and retrieved the Earth from the ocean, lifting it on his tusks, and restored Bhudevi to her place in the universe.

4. Narasimha.

The one I know best. The Bhagavata Purāṇa describes that Vishnu, in his previous avatar as Varāha, killed the evil asura Hiraṇayakṣa. The older brother of Hirṇayakṣa, demon king Hiraṇyakaśipu, hated Vishnu and wanted revenge. He undertook many years of austere penance to gain special powers. Thereafter, Brahma offered Hiraṇyakaśipu a boon. Hiraṇyakaśipu asked, "Grant me that I not die within any residence or outside any residence, during the daytime or at night, nor on the ground or in the sky. Grant me that my death not be brought about by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving created by you. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by any great snake from the lower planets." Brahma granted him the boon, and Hiraṇyakaśipu gained these powers.[7]

Hiraṇyakaśipu, once powerful and invincible with the new boon, began to persecute those who were devotees of Vishnu. Hiraṇyakaśipu had a son, Prahlāda, who disagreed and rebelled against his father. Prahlāda became a devotee of Vishnu. This angered Hiraṇyakaśipu, who tried to kill the boy—but with each attempt, Prahlāda was protected by Viṣṇu's mystical power. When asked, Prahlāda refused to acknowledge his father as the supreme lord of the universe and claimed that Viṣṇu is all-pervading and omnipresent.

Hiraṇyakaśipu pointed to a nearby pillar and asked if 'his Viṣṇu' is in it and said to his son Prahlāda, "O most unfortunate Prahlāda, you have always described a supreme being other than me, a supreme being who is above everything, who is the controller of everyone, and who is all-pervading. But where is He? If He is everywhere, then why is He not present before me in this pillar?" Prahlāda then answered, "He was, He is and He will be."

In an alternate version of the story, Prahlāda answered,

He is in pillars, and he is in the smallest twig.

Hiraṇyakaśipu, unable to control his anger, smashed the pillar with his mace, and following a tumultuous sound, Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṃha appeared from it and moved to attack Hiraṇyakaśipu in defense of Prahlāda. In order to kill Hiraṇyakaśipu and not upset the boon given by Brahma, the form of Narasiṃha was chosen. Hiraṇyakaśipu could not be killed by human, deva or animal. Narasiṃha was none of these, as he is a form of Viṣṇu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He came upon Hiraṇyakaśipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night) on the threshold of a courtyard (neither indoors nor out), and put the demon on his thighs (neither earth nor space). Using his sharp fingernails (neither animate nor inanimate) as weapons, he disemboweled and killed the demon king.

This one I just asked my mom and she gave me a look and said "you know it very well."

5. Vamana.

Another one I don't know very well. But here's what wiki says-

The Dwarf Avatar. The grandson of Prahlada, Bali, with devotion and penance was able to defeat Indra, the god of firmament. This humbled the other deities and extended his authority over the three worlds. The gods appealed to Vishnu for protection and he descended as a boy Vamana. During a yajna (यज्ञ) of the king, Vamana approached him and Bali promised him for whatever he asked. Vamana asked for three paces of land. Bali agreed, and the dwarf then changed his size to that of a giant Trivikrama form. With his first stride he covered the earthly realm, with the second he covered the heavenly realm thereby symbolically covering the abode of all living beings. He then took the third stride for the netherworld. Bali realized that Vamana was Vishnu incarnate. In deference, the king offered his head as the third place for Vamana to place his foot. The avatar did so and thus granted Bali immortality and making him ruler of Pathala, the netherworld. Also Vishnu granted Bali a boon whereby he could return to earth every year. The harvest festivals of Balipratipada and Onam (which is mostly celebrated by people of all faiths within Kerala) are celebrated to mark his yearly homecoming. This legend appears in hymn 1.154 of the Rigveda and other Vedic as well as Puranic texts.

6. Parashuram.

The Warrior Avatar who handled an axe. He is the son of Jamadagni and Renuka and was granted as a boon, an axe after a penance to Shiva. He is the first Brahmin-Kshatriya, or warrior-sage, in Hinduism who had to follow the Dharma of both a Brahmin as well as a Kshatriya. Once, when king Kartavirya Arjuna and his hunting party halted at the ashrama of Jamadagni, the father of Parashurama, and the sage was able to feed them all with the aid of the divine cow Kamadhenu. The king demanded the cow, but Jamadagni refused. Enraged, the king took it by force and destroyed the ashram and left along with the cow. Parashurama then killed the king at his palace and destroyed his army. In revenge, the sons of Kartavirya killed Jamadagni. Parashurama took a vow to kill every Kshatriya on earth twenty-one times over, and filled five lakes with their blood. Ultimately, his grandfather, Rishi Rucheeka, appeared before him and made him halt. He is a chiranjeevi (immortal), and believed to be alive today in penance at Mahendragiri. He is also credited with creating the coastal belt of Karnataka and Kerala by throwing his mighty axe as per Hindu mythology. The place the axe landed in the sea got its water displaced and the land which emerged thus came to be known as the coast of Karnataka and whole of Kerala.

7. Ram.

Now, I do not like Ram, and neither do I like Yudhishthir. He was in Ramayan, and he was the prince of Ayodhya, he was sent to 12 years exile, and he slew Ravan. That's all I'm gonna say. No I will not elaborate. (Sita tho? Absolute Queen. We love her.)

9. Krishna.

You know Krishna. His lore is the largest, I literally can't fit it in here.

9. Buddha.

The prince born to the Shakya clan, in Nepals at the foothills of the Himalayas. He is the founder of Buddhism.

10. Kalki.

He's supposed to appear at the end of Kali Yug, to liberate the world from tyrants. No one knows when that will happen.

No but HOLD ON.

How was I supposed to know that Krishna and Vishnu were the same God.