You
rascal, You have been nourished by our enemies to kill us, and You have
killed some demons by remaining invisible. O fool, Your power is only
mystic, so today I shall enliven my kinsmen by killing You.
Purport:
The demon used the word abhavāya,
which means “for killing.” Śrīdhara Svāmī comments that this “killing”
means liberating, or, in other words, killing the process of continued
birth and death.
The Lord kills the process of
- birth and
- death and keeps Himself invisible.
In the Upaniṣads (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8) it is stated, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate.
The Lord is invisible to the eyes of the common man, but His energies
act in various ways. When demons are in adversity, they think that God
is hiding Himself and is working by His mystic potency. They think that
if they can find God they can kill Him just by seeing Him. Hiraṇyākṣa
thought that way, and he challenged the Lord: “You have done tremendous
harm to our community, taking the part of the demigods, and You have
killed our kinsmen in so many ways, always keeping Yourself hidden. Now I
see You face to face, and I am not going to let You go. I shall kill
You and save my kinsmen from Your mystic misdeeds.”
Not
only are demons always anxious to kill God with words and philosophy,
but they think that if one is materially powerful he can kill God with
materially fatal weapons. Demons like Kaṁsa, Rāvaṇa and Hiraṇyakaśipu
thought themselves powerful enough to kill even God. Demons cannot
understand that God, by His multifarious potencies, can work so
wonderfully that He can be present everywhere and still remain in His
eternal abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana.
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