मोदेत साधुरपि वृश्चिकसर्पहत्या ।
लोकाश्च निर्वृतिमिताः प्रतियन्ति सर्वे
रूपं नृसिंह विभयाय जनाः स्मरन्ति ॥१४॥
tad yaccha manyum asuraÅ› ca hatas tvayÄdya
modeta sÄdhur api vṛścika-sarpa-hatyÄ
lokÄÅ› ca nirvá¹›tim itÄḥ pratiyanti sarve
rÅ«paá¹ ná¹›siá¹ha vibhayÄya janÄḥ smaranti
15 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LSB(10) , TLKS(5)
tat - therefore; yaccha - kindly give up; manyum - Your anger; asuraḥ - my father, HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu, the great demon; ca - also; hataḥ - killed; tvayÄ - by You; adya - today; modeta - take pleasure; sÄdhuḥ api - even a saintly person; vṛścika-sarpa-hatyÄ - by killing a snake or a scorpion; lokÄḥ - all the planets; ca - indeed; nirvá¹›tim - pleasure; itÄḥ - have achieved; pratiyanti - are waiting (for pacification of Your anger); sarve - all of them; rÅ«pam - this form; ná¹›siá¹ha - O Lord Ná¹›siá¹hadeva; vibhayÄya - for mitigating their fear; janÄḥ - all the people of the universe; smaranti - will remember.
My Lord Ná¹›siá¹hadeva, please, therefore, cease Your anger now that my father, the great demon HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu, has been killed. Since even saintly persons take pleasure in the killing of a scorpion or a snake, all the worlds have achieved great satisfaction because of the death of this demon. Now they are confident of their happiness, and they will always remember Your auspicious incarnation in order to be free from fear.
The most important point in this verse is that although saintly persons never desire the killing of any living entity, they take pleasure in the killing of envious living entities like snakes and scorpions. HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu was killed because he was worse than a snake or a scorpion, and therefore everyone was happy. Now there was no need for the Lord to be angry. The devotees can always remember the form of Ná¹›siá¹hadeva when they are in danger, and therefore the appearance of Ná¹›siá¹hadeva was not at all inauspicious. The Lord’s appearance is always worshipable and auspicious for all sane persons and devotees.
