The Appearance Day of Lord Nrsimhadeva

Today in Texas is the appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva, who mercifully appeared to protect His devotee Prahlada from being tortured and killed by his demoniac father, Hiranyakasipu. Just as Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared to protect Prahlada, He will also protect us if we humbly take shelter of Him in the same mood of Prahlada. Since we are in gross ignorance of how to do this, Srila Prabhupada has mercifully taught us how to pray to Lord Nrsimhadeva as follows:

bahir nṛsiṁho hṛdaye nṛsiṁhaḥ

"Let Lord Nrsimhadeva sit in the core of my heart, killing all my bad propensities. Let my mind become clean so that I may peacefully worship the Lord and bring peace to the entire world."

This is a most beautiful and wonderful way of praying because not only is the devotee praying for his own purification. He is also simultaneously praying that all the suffering souls of this world can be relieved from their misery. He wants that Krishna consciousness should flood his own heart and that it should flood the universe as well.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Lord Nrsimhadeva Kills the Demon Hiranyakasipu

Lord Nrsimhadeva Kills the Demon Hiranyakasipu

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Don't You All Lead the World?

Respected Gurudeva,

My obeisances to Srila Prabhupada!

Thanks for your enlightening quotes every morning. I have one question. In today's quote you had said, "Because today's world leaders are spiritually blind they are for all practical purposes useless, and the world situation is deteriorating more and more with each passing year."

My question is: In that case why don't spiritually enlightened people like you lead from the front and set standards?

Dinesh

Answer: We're Leading, But They Don't Follow.

The leading devotees of ISKCON are already providing the proper leadership for the world. The difficulty is that practically no one is following them.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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