Text 31] The Killing of the Demon Hiranyakga 745

maitreyah wvadca—Sri Maitreya said; evam-thus; hiranyaksam—
Hiranyaksa; asahya-vikramam—very powerful; sah—the Lord; sddayitva—
after killing; harth—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ddi-sikarah—the
origin of the boar species; jagama—returned; lokam—to His abode; svam—
own; akhandita—uninterrupted; ulsavam festival; samiditah—being praised;
puskara-vistara—lotus seat (by Lord Brahma whose seat is a lotus); ddibhih—
and the others.

TRANSLATION

Sti Maitreya continued: After thus killing the most formidable demon
Hiranyakga, the Supreme Lord Hari, the origin of the boar species, returned
to His own abode, where there is always an uninterrupted festival. The
Lord was praised by all the demigods, headed by Brahma.

PURPORT

The Lord is spoken of herewith as the origin of the boar species. As
stated in the Veddnta-sitra (1.1.2), the Absolute Truth is the origin of
everything. Therefore it is to be understood that all 8,400,000 species of
bodily forms originate from the Lord, who is always ddi, or the beginning.
In Bhagavad-gitad Arjuna addresses the Lord as ddyam, or the original.
Similarly, in the Brahma-samhitd the Lord is addressed as ddi-purusam, the
original person. Indeed, in Bhagavad-gitd the Lord Himself declares, mattah
sarvam pravartate: ‘From Me everything proceeds.” (Bg. 10.8)

In this situation the Lord assumed the shape of a boar to kill the demon
Hfiranyakga and pick up the earth from the Garbha Ocean. Thus He became
ddi-siikara, the original boar. In the material world a boar or pig is con-
sidered most abominable, but the ddi-sikara, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, was not treated as an ordinary boar. Even Lord Brahma and the
other demigods praised the Lord’s form as a boar.

This verse confirms the statement in Bhagavad-gild that the Lord appears
as He is from His transcendental abode for the sake of killing the miscreants
and saving the devotees. By killing the demon Hiranyakga He fulfilled Ifis
promise to kill the demons and always protect the demigods headed by
Brahma. The statement that the Lord returned to His own abode indicates
that He has His own particular transcendental residence. Since He is full of
all energies, He is all-pervasive in spite of His residing in Goloka Vrndavana,
just as the sun, although situated in a particular place within the universe,
is present by its sunshine throughout the universe.

Although the Lord has His particular abode in which to reside, He is
all-pervasive. The impersonalists accept one aspect of the Lord’s features,
