246 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 9
Lord in the form of Hayagriva killed two demons named Madhu and
Kaitabha when they attacked Lord Brahma. Modern demons think that
there was no life in the beginning of creation, but from Srimad-
Bhagavatam we understand that the first living creature created by the
Supreme Personality of Godhead was Lord Brahma, who is full of Vedic
understanding. Unfortunately, those entrusted with distributing Vedic
knowledge, such as the devotees engaged in spreading Krsna conscious-
ness, may sometimes be attacked by demons, but they must rest assured
that demoniac attacks will not be able to harm them, for the Lord is al-
ways prepared to give them protection. The Vedas provide the knowl-
edge by which we can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead
(vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah). The devotees of the Lord are al-
ways ready to spread knowledge by which one may understand the Lord
through Krsna consciousness, but the demons, being unable to under-
stand the Supreme Lord, are full of ignorance and passion. Thus the
Lord, whose form is transcendental, is always ready to kill the demons.
By culturing the mode of goodness, one can understand the position of
the transcendental Lord and how the Lord is always prepared to remove

all obstacles on the path of understanding Him.
In summary, whenever the Lord incarnates, He appears in His original

transcendental form. As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (4.7):
yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bhdrata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadadtmanam srjamy aham

“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O de-
scendent of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time |
descend Myself.” It is simply foolish to think of the Lord as being
originally impersonal but accepting a material body when He appears as a
personal incarnation. Whenever the Lord appears, He appears in His
original transcendental form, which is spiritual and blissful. But unin-
telligent men, such as the Mayavadis, cannot understand the transcen-
dental form of the Lord, and therefore the Lord chastises them by
saying, avajananti mam midha manusim tanum dsritam: “Fools deride
