238 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 6
be difficult for Him to lift a mountain? Since He is floating innumerable
planets with many hundreds and thousands of Mandara Mountains, why
can’t He lift one of them with His hand? This is not mythology, but the
difference between the believers and the faithless is that the devotees ac-
cept the incidents mentioned in the Vedic literatures to be true, whereas
the demons simply argue and label all these historical incidents
mythology. Demons would prefer to explain that everything happening
in the cosmic manifestation takes place by chance, but demigods, or de-
votees, never consider anything to be chance. Rather, they know that
everything is an arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
That is the difference between the demigods and the demons.
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avaropya girirh skandhat
suparnah patatam varah
yayau jalanta utsrjya
harina sa visarjitah
avaropya—unloading; girim—the mountain; skandhét—from his
shoulder; suparnah—Garuda; patatam—of all the birds; varah—the
biggest or most powerful; yayau—went; jala-ante—where the water is;
utsr7yya—placing; harina—by the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
sah—he (Garuda); visarjitah—discharged from that place.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, Garuda, the chief of birds, unloaded Mandara
Mountain from his shoulder and brought it near the water. Then
he was asked by the Lord to leave that place, and he left.
PURPORT
Garuda was asked by the Lord to leave that place because the snake
Vasuki, who was to be used as the rope for churning, could not go there
in the presence of Garuda. Garuda, the carrier of Lord Visnu, is not a
