1970 - Prabhupada

......... ,.#27-'lLA-2-18-70Varaha's App. Lect.md-- 2offering prayer, "My Lord,You saved the Vedas when there was devastao--tion in the shape of fish." The next is Kurmavatar. There was churningAof the ocean. One side all the demigods and one side all the demons.And the churning rod was a great hill called Mandara-parvat: And theAresting place was on the back of the Lord appeared as a tortoise. Sohe • s offering his prayer that ''You appeared as a toise just to becomethe resting place. And this happened because You were feeling someitching sensation on your back so You accepted this big rod, MandaraHill, to itch, as the itching instrument." Then the next incacnationis this Varaha, boar or hog. He delivered this earthly planet by thetusk )and he kept the whole world on is tusk. We can just imtgine--how big he appeared. And the world at that time appeared jusl likethe moon disc with some marks on it. So kesava-dhrta-varaha-s.:rira.He says, "My dear Lord, You have appeared as the great boar. So letme offer my respectful obeisances unto You." The fourth incanationis Nrsimhade\a. Nrsimhadevaappeared to save Prahlada r-taharaja ) who wasfive years old boy he was being tortured by his atheistic father.0-So He appeared from the pillar of the palace as half-man halt:-lion.ASecause this Hiranyakasipu took benediction from Brahma that he'llnot be killed by any man or any animal\o the Lord appeared neitherman nor animal. This is the difference between the Lord's intelligenceand our intelligence. We are thinking that we can cheat the Lord byour intelligenc but the Lord is more intelligent than us. ThisHiranyakasipu wanted to cheat Brahma by indirect definition. Firstof all he wanted to become immortal. Brahma said, "That is not possiblebecause even I am notimmortal. That is notare very intelligent.immortal. Nobody in this material world is_),.c,possible. ' A Hiranyakasipu, the demon. . . The demons(IHe thought that ound about way I shall become,,immortal. He prayed to Brahma that "Please give me the benediction that