Hiranyakashipu : an Asura who for his tapasyā had been granted lordship of the three worlds by Shiva, persecuted even his son Prahlāda for worshipping Vishnu & was slain by Vishnu’s Narasimha form.
... get such imaginations like the Narasimha Hiranyakashipu 87 one, I shall begin to think [hat the Over- mind has got hold of you also. I don't know the gentleman (Narasimha) personally but only by hearsay: if he was there I certainly did not recognise him, I always thought of him as a symbol—or perhaps a divinised Neanderthal man who Went for Hiranyakashipu (whoever H. was) and cut him open in the true ...
... hordes, I did the Hathayoga in three days, Which men with anguish through ten lives effect,— Not that now practised by earth's feebler race, But that which Rávan knew in Lunca, Dhruv Fulfilled, Hiranyakashipu performed, The Yoga of the old Lemurian Kings. I felt the strength of Titans in my veins, The joy of gods, the pride of Siddhas. Tall And mighty like a striding God I came To Vyása; but he ...
... ploughing as opposed to a draught-animal or a warhorse, & support the derivation by instancing the Latin arvum, a tilled field! But even if the Aryans were ploughmen, the Titans surely were not—Hiranyakashipu & Prahlad did not pride themselves on the breaking of the glebe & the honest sweat of their brow! There is no trace of such an association in arvan here,—I know not whether there is any elsewhere ...
... Bolsheviks appeared as their counterparts in Russia. Mussolini was their henchman, a "satellite" in modern parlance. Our Puranic scriptures tell of the ancient Shumbha and Nishumbha, Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, Shishupala and Raktadanta, dual power of Evil defying the Divine Power. Something similar seemed to be happening again. Here was precisely what lay behind the origins of the second Great ...
... Reader's Digest Oxford, 1996). 86. Shanta: a Gujarati lady disciple. 87. Narasimha: the manlion incarnation of Vishnu. Hiranyakashipu, the Asura king, persecuted his son Prahlada who adored Vishnu, his sworn enemy. So Narasihma finally held Hiranyakashipu and with his nails cut open his stomach and pulled out his entrails. 88. Meherwan Sheriar Irani (1894 -1969) was born in Pune ...
... you get such imaginations like the Nrisinha Hiranyakashipu one, I shall begin to think that the Overmind has got hold of you also. I don't know the gentleman (Nrisinha) personally, but only by hearsay; if he was there I certainly did not recognise him. I always thought of him as a symbol—or perhaps a divinised Neanderthal man who sent for Hiranyakashipu (whoever H. was) and cut him open in the true ...
... themselves till they stumble forward into misery & night, till they become demoniac in nature, it may be in furious & hungry insistence on a great aspiration. They may be grandiosely mighty like Hiranyakashipu, ostentatiously largehearted like Bali, fiercely self-righteous like the younger Prahlada. But they fall whether great or petty, noble or ignoble & in their fall they are thrust down by Vishnu ...
... unreal without Swarajya. Mind that has mastered its inferior Page 537 principles without obeying the law of a higher Truth, is figured for us in epos and Puran as the victorious Titan, Hiranyakashipu or Ravana,—victorious but doomed in the end to a sudden successful revolt of the lower principles or to direct destruction by Power descending from on high because the mastery it holds is artificial ...
... g, with whatever falsehood and stammering, its secret sense that it is the Lord of the universe, yet must it deny & transform itself, if it is to effect its grandiose object. The mighty Asura, Hiranyakashipu or Ravana, Attila, Alexander, Napoleon or Jenghiz, reaching out to possess the whole world physically as the not-self, is the Godhead in man aiming at self-realisation, but a godhead blind and ...
... be destroyed by Him. Jaya and Vijaya, in order to return to Vaikunth quickly, chose the latter alternative and opposed the Lord on the earthly battlefields in three incarnations as Hiranyaksha-Hiranyakashipu, Ravana-Kumbhakarna and Shishupala-Dantavaktra. My immature mind with its fertile imagination, often wondered whether the players who opposed the Mother on the tennis court would have ...
... enthronement & fulfilment of the human ahankara. As the type of the sensational & emotional Rakshasa-Asura is Ravana, so the type of the more mightily balanced Asura Rakshasa of the Asura type is Hiranyakashipu. In the eighth Manwantara this Asura Rakshasa evolves into the pure Asura who serves his intellectual ego & subordinates to it all the other faculties. That type reigns with the ninth Manu & evolves ...
... Asura is the best bhakta. The Gita is quite wrong in holding up the Deva nature as the condition of realisation and the Asura nature as contrary to it. It is the other way round. 3) Ravana, Hiranyakashipu, Shishupala were the greatest devotees of the Divine because they were capable of hostility to the Divine and so were liberated in a few lives—compared with them the great Rishis and Bhaktas were ...
... themselves on their choice! They forget that. Page 233 × In Indian mythology Prahlad is the son of King Hiranyakashipu, an ardent enemy of the god Vishnu. The king had banned the worship of Vishnu in his kingdom, and when he learnt that his son Prahlad was worshipping this god in his own palace, he delivered him ...
... Asura is the best bhakta. The Gita is quite wrong in holding up the Deva nature as the condition of realisation and the Asura nature as contrary to it. It is the other way round. 3)Ravana, Hiranyakashipu, Sishupala were the greatest devotees of the Divine because they were capable of hostility to the Divine and so were liberated in a few lives — compared with them the great Rishis and Bhaktas were ...
... Bolsheviks appeared as their counterparts in Russia. Mussolini was their henchman, a "satellite" in modern parlance; Our Puranic scriptures tell of the ancient Shumbha and Nishumbha, Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, Shishupala and Raktadanta, dual power of Evil defying the Divine Power. Something similar seemed to be happening again. Here was precisely what lay behind the origins of the second Great War: ...
... Presence in a Love shining in all things. 13 The Mother cites the classic instance of Prahlad who saw but Vishnu everywhere, and hence the worst dangers to his life devised by his demon-father, Hiranyakashipu, became only divine benefactions. If, then, one could face any danger whatsoever or any enemy or phenomenon of ill-will with this Radha-consciousness or Prahlad-consciousness of the Divine omnipresence ...
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