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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 6]
be difficult for Him to lift a mountain? Since He is floating innumerable planets with many hundreds and thousands of Mandara Mountains, why can't He lift one of them with His hand? This is not mythology, but the difference between the believers and the faithless is that the devotees accept the incidents mentioned in the Vedic literatures to be true, whereas the demons simply argue and label all these historical incidents mythology. Demons would prefer to explain that everything happening in the cosmic manifestation takes place by chance, but demigods, or devotees, never consider anything to be chance. Rather, they know that everything is an arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the difference between the demigods and the demons.
TEXT 39
अवरोप्यगिरिं स्कन्धात् सुपर्णः पततां वरः । यथौ जलान्त उत्सृज्य हरिणा स विसर्जितः ॥३९॥
avaropya girim skandhāt suparṇaḥ patatām varaḥ yayau jalānta utsrjya hariṇā sa visarjitaḥ
avaropya —unloading;  girim —the mountain;  skandhāt —from his shoulder;  suparṇaḥ —Garuḍa;  patatām —of all the birds;  varaḥ —the biggest or most powerful;  yayau —went;  jala-ante —where the water is;  utsrjya —placing;  hariṇā —by the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  saḥ —he (Garuḍa);  visarjitaḥ —discharged from that place.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, Garuḍa, the chief of birds, unloaded Mandara Mountain from his shoulder and brought it near the water. Then he was asked by the Lord to leave that place, and he left.
PURPORT
Garuḍa was asked by the Lord to leave that place because the snake Vāsuki, who was to be used as the rope for churning, could not go there in the presence of Garuḍa. Garuḍa, the carrier of Lord Viṣṇu, is not a