Text 3] The Battle Between Lord Boar and Hiranyaksa 701
engaged in uplifting the submerged earth from the depths of the waters,
this great demon Hiranyaksa 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-sampradaya
there is sometimes a demoniac misconception about the descent of
Nityananda Prabhu. Nityananda Prabhu’s body is spiritual, but demoniac
persons consider the body of the Supreme Personality to be material, just
like ours. Avajananti mam midhah: persons who have no intelligence
deride the transcendental form of the Lord as material.
TEXT 3
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a afer aera ated:
wuaegtaedst
ahainam ehy ajna mahim vimuica no
rasaukasam visva-srjeyam arpita
na svasti yasyasy anaya mameksatah
suradhamédsddita-sikarakrte

aha—Hiranyaksa said; enam—to the Lord; ehi—come and fight; ajaa—O
fool; mahim—the earth; vimuica—give up; nah—to us; rasa-okasam—of the
inhabitants of the lower regions; visva-srja—by the creator of the universe;
iyam—this earth; arpita—entrusted ; na—not; svasti—well-being; ydsyasi—You
will go; anaya—with this; mama iksatah—while I am seeing; suradhama- O
lowest of the demigods; asadita—having taken; sikara-akrte—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

Sridhara Svami, commenting on this verse, states that although the

demon wanted to deride the Personality of Godhead in the form of a
