Text 3] The Battle Between Lord Boar and Hiraṇyākṣa
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engaged in uplifting the submerged earth from the depths of the waters, this great demon Hiraṇyākṣa met Him and challenged Him, calling Him a beast. Demons cannot understand the incarnations of the Lord; they think that His incarnations as a fish or boar or tortoise are big beasts only. They misunderstand the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even in His human form, and they deride His descent. In the Caitanya-sampradāya there is sometimes a demoniac misconception about the descent of Nityānanda Prabhu. Nityānanda Prabhu's body is spiritual, but demoniac persons consider the body of the Supreme Personality to be material, just like ours.  Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ : persons who have no intelligence deride the transcendental form of the Lord as material.
TEXT 3
आहेनमेक्षञ्च महीं विमुञ्च नो 
    रसौकसां विश्वसृजेयमर्पिता । 
    न स्वस्ति यास्यस्यनया ममेक्षतः 
    सुराधमासादितक्षकराकृते ॥ ३ ॥
āhainam ehy ajña mahīṁ vimuñca no 
    rasaukasāṁ viśva-sṛjeyam arpitā 
    na svasti yāsyasy anayā mamekṣataḥ 
    surādhamāsādita-sūkarākṛte
āha —Hiraṇyākṣa said;  enam —to the Lord;  ehi —come and fight;  ajña —O fool;  mahīṁ —the earth;  vimuñca —give up;  naḥ —to us;  rasā-okasām —of the inhabitants of the lower regions;  viśva-sṛjā —by the creator of the universe;  iyam —this earth;  arpitā —entrusted;  na —not;  svasti —well-being;  yāsyasi —You will go;  anayā —with this;  mama īkṣataḥ —while I am seeing;  surādhama —O lowest of the demigods;  āsādita —having taken;  sūkara-ākṛte —the form of a boar.
TRANSLATION
The demon addressed the Lord: O best of the demigods, dressed in the form of a boar, just hear me. This earth is entrusted to us, the inhabitants of the lower regions, and You cannot take it from my presence and not be hurt by me.
PURPORT
Śrīdhara Svāmī, commenting on this verse, states that although the demon wanted to deride the Personality of Godhead in the form of a