Text 24]
The Lord Slays the King of the Demons
143
न तद् विचित्रं खलु सत्त्वधामनि स्वतेजसा यो नु पुरापिवत् तमः ॥२४॥
alakṣito 'gnau patitaḥ pataṅgamo yathā nṛsiṁhaujasi so 'suras tadā na tad vicitraṁ khalu sattva-dhāmani sva-tejasā yo nu purāpibat tamaḥ
alakṣitaḥ —invisible;  agnau —in the fire;  patitaḥ —fallen;  pataṅgamaḥ —an insect;  yathā —just as;  nṛsiṁha —of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva;  ojasi —in the effulgence;  saḥ —he;  asuraḥ —Hiraṇyakaśipu;  tadā —at that time;  na —not;  tat —that;  vicitram —wonderful;  khalu —indeed;  sattva-dhāmani —in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in pure goodness;  sva-tejasā —by His own effulgence;  yaḥ —He who (the Lord);  nu —indeed;  purā —formerly;  apibat —swallowed up;  tamaḥ —the darkness within the material creation.
TRANSLATION
Just as a small insect falls forcefully into a fire and the insignificant creature becomes invisible, when Hiraṇyakaśipu attacked the Lord, who was full of effulgence, Hiraṇyakaśipu became invisible. This is not at all astonishing, for the Lord is always situated in pure goodness. Formerly, during creation, He entered the dark universe and illuminated it by His spiritual effulgence.
PURPORT
The Lord is situated transcendentally, in pure goodness. The material world is generally controlled by  tamo-guṇa , the quality of ignorance, but the spiritual world, because of the presence of the Lord and His effulgence, is free from all contamination by darkness, passion or contaminated goodness. Although there is a tinge of goodness in this material world in terms of the brahminical qualifications, such qualifications sometimes become invisible because of the strong prevalence of the modes of passion and ignorance. But because the Lord is always transcendentally situated, the material modes of passion and ignorance cannot