### SB 3.3.6

> सुतं मृधे खं वपुषा ग्रसन्तं दृष्ट्वा सुनाभोन्मथितं धरित्र्या ।\
> आमन्त्रितस्तत्तनयाय शेषं दत्त्वा तदन्तःपुरमाविवेश ॥६॥

> sutaṁ mṛdhe khaṁ vapuṣā grasantaṁ\
> dṛṣṭvā sunābhonmathitaṁ dharitryā\
> āmantritas tat-tanayāya śeṣaṁ\
> dattvā tad-antaḥ-puram āviveśa

*sutam*—son; *mṛdhe*—in the fight; *kham*—the sky; *vapuṣā*—by his body; *grasantam*—while devouring; *dṛṣṭvā*—seeing; *sunābhot*—by the Sudarśana wheel; *mathitam*—killed; *dharitryā*—by the earth; *āmantritaḥ*—being prayed for; *tat-tanayāya*—to the son of Narakāsura; *śeṣam*—that which was taken from; *dattvā*—returning it; *tat*—his; *antaḥ-puram*—inside the house; *āviveśa*—entered.

**Narakāsura, the son of Dharitrī, the earth, tried to grasp the whole sky, and for this he was killed by the Lord in a fight. His mother then prayed to the Lord, which led to the return of the kingdom to the son of Narakāsura, and thus the Lord entered the house of the demon.**

It is said in other *purāṇas* that Narakāsura was the son of Dharitrī, the earth, by the Lord Himself. But he became a demon due to the bad association of Bāṇa, another demon. An atheist is called a demon, and it is a fact that even a person born of good parents can turn into a demon by bad association. Birth is not always the criterion of goodness; unless and until one is trained in the culture of good association, one cannot become good.