Text 51] The Lord Slays the King of the Demons
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performances, but this Hiraṇyakaśipu, by the influence of his bodily strength and valor, brought us under his subjugation. Now he has been brought to this low condition by Your Lordship. What benefit can result from the activities of such an upstart as Hiraṇyakaśipu?
PURPORT
By being a very obedient servant of the Supreme Lord, one becomes extremely powerful in bodily strength, influence and effulgence, whereas the fate of demoniac upstarts is ultimately to fall down like Hiraṇyakaśipu. Hiraṇyakaśipu and persons like him may be very powerful for some time, but the obedient servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead like the demigods remain powerful always. They are victorious over the influence of Hiraṇyakaśipu by the grace of the Supreme Lord.
TEXT 51
श्रीचारणा ऊचुः
हरे तवाङ्घ्रिपङ्कजं भवापवर्गमाश्रिताः । यदेष साधुहृन्त्यस्त्वयासुरः समापितः ॥५१॥
śrī-cāraṇā ūcuḥ hare tavāṅghri-paṅkajaṁ bhavāpavargam āśritāḥ yad eṣa sādhu-hṛc-chayas tvayāsuraḥ samāpitaḥ
śrī-cāraṇāḥ ūcuḥ—the inhabitants of the Cāraṇa planet said;  hare —O Lord;  tava —Your;  aṅghri-paṅkajam —lotus feet;  bhava-apavargam —the only shelter for becoming free from the contamination of material existence;  āśritāḥ —sheltered at;  yat —because;  eṣaḥ —this;  sādhu-hṛt-śayaḥ —stake in the hearts of all honest persons;  tvayā —by Your Lordship;  asuraḥ —the demon (Hiraṇyakaśipu);  samāpitaḥ —finished.
TRANSLATION
The inhabitants of the Cāraṇa planet said: O Lord, because You have destroyed the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu, who was always a stake