Text 2] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 185
devotee of the Lord cannot tolerate blasphemy of the Lord or His other
devotees, and the Lord also cannot tolerate blasphemy of a devotee. Thus
Lord Nrsirnhadeva was so very angry that the great demigods like Lord
Brahma and Lord Siva and even the goddess of fortune, who is the Lord’s
constant companion, could not pacify Him, even after offering prayers of
glorification and praise. No one was able to pacify the Lord in His anger,
but because the Lord was willing to exhibit His affection for Prahlada
Maharaja, all the demigods and the others present before the Lord
pushed Prahlada Maharaja forward to pacify Him.
TEXT 2
as Ss O
aa wt: tat Sater ¢ weagay |
TPIT Al ATA UAT I 2 Ul
sdksat Srih presita devair
drstva tarn mahad adbhutam
adrstasruta-pirvatvat
sd nopeyaya Sarnkita
saksat—directly; srih—the goddess of fortune; presita—being re-
quested to go forward before the Lord; devaih—by all the demigods
(headed by Lord Brahma and Lord Siva); drstué—after seeing; tam—
Him (Lord Nrsirnhadeva); mahat—very big; adbhutam—wonderful;
adrsta—never seen; asruta—never heard of; puirvatvat—due to being
previously; sa—the goddess of fortune, Laksmi; na—not; upeyaya—
went before the Lord; sankita—being very much afraid.
TRANSLATION
The goddess of fortune, Laksmiji, was requested to go before
the Lord by all the demigods present, who because of fear could
not do so. But even she had never seen such a wonderful and ex-
traordinary form of the Lord, and thus she could not approach
Him.
PURPORT
The Lord has unlimited forms and bodily features (advaitam acyutam
anddim ananta-ripam). These are all situated in Vaikuntha, yet
