Text 5] The Battle Between Lord Boar and Hiranyaksa 703

PURPORT

The demon used the word abhavaya, which means for killing. Sridhara
Svami comments that this “killing” means liberating, or, in other words
killing the process of continued birth and death. The Lord kills the process
of birth and death and keeps Himself invisible. The activities of the Lord’s
internal potency are inconceivable, but by a slight exhibition of this
potency, the Lord, by His grace, can deliver one from nescience. Sucah
means miseries; the miseries of material existence can be extinguished by
the Lord by His potential energy of internal yogamaya. In the Upanisads
(Svet. 6.8) it is stated, pardsya saktir vividhaiva sriiyate. The Lord is in-
visible to the eyes of the common man, but His energies act in various
ways. When demons are in adversity, they think that God is hiding Himself
and is working by His mystic potency. They think that if they can find
God they can kill Him just by seeing Him. Hiranyaksa thought that way,
and he challenged the Lord: “You have done tremendous harm to our
community, taking the part of the demigods, and You have killed our
kinsmen in so many ways, always keeping Yourself hidden. Now I see You
face to face, and I am not going to let You go. I shall kill You and save my
kinsmen from Your mystic misdeeds.”

Demons are not only always anxious to kill God with words and
philosophy, but they think that if one is materially powerful he can kill
God with materially fatal weapons. Demons like Kamsa, Ravana and
Hiranyakasipu thought themselves powerful enough to kill even God.
Demons cannot understand that God, by His multifarious potencies, can
work so wonderfully that He can be present everywhere and still remain
in His eternal abode, Goloka Vrndavana.

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tvayi samsthite gadayd Sirna-sirsany
asmad-bhuja-cyutaya ye ca tubhyam

balim haranty rsayo ye ca devah
svayam sarve na bhavisyanty amilah
