TEXT 43
sri-rsaya ucuh
tvam nas tapah paramam attha yad atma-tejo
yenedam adi-purusatma-gatam sasarktha
tad vipraluptam amunadya saranya-pala
raksa-grhita-vapusa punar anvamamsthah
SYNONYMS
sri-rsayah ucuhthe great sages said; tvamYou; nahour; tapahausterity; paramamtopmost; atthainstructed; yatwhich; atma-tejahYour spiritual power; yenaby which; idamthis (material world); adi-purusaO supreme original Personality of Godhead; atma-gatammerged within Yourself; sasarktha(You) created; tatthat process of austerity and penance; vipraluptamstolen; amunaby that demon (Hiranyakasipu); adyanow; saranya-palaO supreme maintainer of those who need to be sheltered; raksa-grhita-vapusaby Your body, which You accept to give protection; punahagain; anvamamsthahYou have approved.
TRANSLATION
All the saintly persons present offered their prayers in this way: O Lord, O supreme maintainer of those sheltered at Your lotus feet, O original Personality of Godhead, the process of austerity and penance, in which You instructed us before, is the spiritual power of Your very self. It is by austerity that You create the material world, which lies dormant within You. This austerity was almost stopped by the activities of this demon, but now, by Yourself appearing in the form of Nrsimhadeva, which is meant just to give us protection, and by killing this demon, You have again approved the process of austerity.
PURPORT
The living entities wandering within the jurisdiction of the 8,400,000 species of life get the opportunity for self-realization in the human form and gradually in such other elevated forms as those of the demigods, Kinnaras and Caranas, as will be described below. In the higher statuses of life, beginning from human life, the main duty is tapasya, or austerity. As Rsabhadeva advised His sons, tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam suddhyet. To rectify our material existence, austerity (tapasya) is absolutely necessary. However, when people in general come under the control of a demon or a demoniac ruling power, they forget this process of tapasya and gradually also become demoniac. All the saintly persons, who were generally engaged in austerity, felt relieved when Hiranyakasipu was killed by the Lord in the form of Nrsimhadeva. They realized that the original instruction concerning human lifethat it is meant for tapasya for self-realizationwas reaffirmed by the Lord when He killed Hiranyakasipu.
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