vyasubhir vÄsumadbhir vÄ
surÄsura-mahoragaiḥ
apratidvandvatÄá¹ yuddhe
aika-patyaá¹ ca dehinÄm
sarveá¹£Äá¹ loka-pÄlÄnÄá¹
mahimÄnaá¹ yathÄtmanaḥ
tapo-yoga-prabhÄvÄṇÄá¹
yan na riá¹£yati karhicit
vyasubhiḥ - by things that have no life; vÄ - or; asumadbhiḥ - by entities that have life; vÄ - or; sura - by the demigods; asura - the demons; mahÄ-uragaiḥ - by the great serpents who live on the lower planets; apratidvandvatÄm - without a rival; yuddhe - in battle; aika-patyam - supremacy; ca - and; dehinÄm - over those who have material bodies; sarveá¹£Äm - of all; loka-pÄlÄnÄm - the predominating deities of all planets; mahimÄnam - the glory; yathÄ - just as; Ätmanaḥ - of yourself; tapaḥ-yoga-prabhÄvÄṇÄm - of those whose power is obtained by austerities and the practice of mystic yoga; yat - which; na - never; riá¹£yati - is destroyed; karhicit - at any time.
Lord BrahmÄ obtained his supreme position due to long austerities and penances, mystic yoga, meditation and so on. HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu wanted a similar position. The ordinary powers achieved by mystic yoga, austerities and other processes are sometimes vanquished, but the powers obtained by the mercy of the Lord are never vanquished. HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu, therefore, wanted a benediction that would never be vanquished.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Seventh Canto, Third Chapter, of the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam, entitled “HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu’s Plan to Become Immortal.â€