प्रोन्नीयमानावनिमग्रदंष्ट्रया ।
मुष्णन्तमक्ष्णा स्वरुचोऽरुणश्रिया
जहास चाहो वनगोचरो मृगः ॥२॥
dadarÅ›a tatrÄbhijitaá¹ dharÄ-dharaá¹
pronnÄ«yamÄnÄvanim agra-daá¹á¹£á¹rayÄ
muṣṇantam aká¹£á¹‡Ä sva-ruco 'ruṇa-Å›riyÄ
jahÄsa cÄho vana-gocaro má¹›gaḥ
dadarÅ›a - he saw; tatra - there; abhijitam - the victorious; dharÄ - the earth; dharam - bearing; pronnÄ«yamÄna - being raised upward; avanim - the earth; agra-daá¹á¹£á¹rayÄ - by the tip of His tusk; muṣṇantam - who was diminishing; aká¹£á¹‡Ä - with His eyes; sva-rucaḥ - HiraṇyÄká¹£a's own splendor; aruṇa - reddish; Å›riyÄ - radiant; jahÄsa - he laughed; ca - and; aho - oh; vana-gocaraḥ - amphibious; má¹›gaḥ - beast.
He saw there the all-powerful Personality of Godhead in His boar incarnation, bearing the earth upward on the ends of His tusks and robbing him of his splendor with His reddish eyes. The demon laughed: Oh, an amphibious beast!
In a previous chapter we have discussed the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as VarÄha, the boar. While VarÄha, with His tusks, engaged in uplifting the submerged earth from the depths of the waters, this great demon HiraṇyÄká¹£a met Him and challenged Him, calling Him a beast. Demons cannot understand the incarnations of the Lord; they think that His incarnations as a fish or boar or tortoise are big beasts only. They misunderstand the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even in His human form, and they deride His descent. In the Caitanya sampradÄya there is sometimes a demoniac misconception about the descent of NityÄnanda Prabhu. NityÄnanda Prabhu’s body is spiritual, but demoniac persons consider the body of the Supreme Personality to be material, just like ours. AvajÄnanti mÄá¹ mÅ«á¸hÄḥ: persons who have no intelligence deride the transcendental form of the Lord as material.
