Incarnation Of Lord Varaha

So Brahma began to meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead Jagat Guru and just at that time a little tiny bore the size of the tip of a thumb came out from the nose of Lord Brahma and it went into the sky and Brahma was thinking what is this and all the saints and sages around were thinking what is this and then the bore began to grow he grew and grew until he was like a huge mountain and then they understood, they all began to speculate who is this, what is this, what is happening we have never seen such a thing, but then the Lord began to roar and when he roared it was like the roaring of a mountain and they could all understand that this was the supreme Lord Narayana who has taken this most fantastic unbelievable, incredible form and then he began to grow in such size that he covered the entire sky and the great saints and sages, and the devi, devathas they began to offer prayers of love to the supreme personality of Godhead, glorifying his supreme most transcendental position and the Lord again just to enliven his devotees he began to roar, he began to slashes his boar like tail and he cast his merciful glance upon them to tell them there is nothing to fear I have come.  So someone may think how is this possible what type of mythology do you Vaishnavas believe in that god is a gigantic boar.  Boar is a relatively of the hog the pig, which is not a very respectable distinguished animal by any means.  In fact they are considered very lowly, but Krishna’s body, Krishna’s transcendental nature is transcendental.

Varahadev Placing The Earth Back In Its Place:

But when Krishna becomes a boar he is so beautiful so transcendentally beautiful that he was attracting the hearts with motivated love of all the devotees and even the demigods, demigods they all have such beautiful apsara wives, but immediately all their attention and attraction became to the beautiful form of this boar and then after glancing his eyes upon all of his devotees he began to dive into the ocean and as he dove into the ocean it explains the Garbhodaka ocean appeared like it was being cut into two so big, so magnanimous, so magnificent and you see boars something like pigs they like to eat  dirty things in dirty places and they use their nose to find out what smells the worst and then they enjoy that.  Of course, Srila Prabhupada  explains that if one is indiscriminate in ones eating habits one can take next birth like this and with nose sounds they make and that sound that they are making is just their nose just lustfully searching for the most abominable possible thing to eat and enjoy, but the Lord in the bottom of the Garbodak ocean with his nose searching for the earth and he came to the earth planet and in such a wonderful, beautiful, transcendental gesture he lifted the earth upon his beautiful white tusks and he began to carry the earth.  Jai Dev Goswami prays in his glorification

vasati daçana-çikhare dharaëé tava lagnä

çaçini kalaìka-kaleva nimagnä

keçava dhåta-çükara-rüpa

jaya jagadéça hare Keshava kara rupa

Sri Varaha Bhagavan Ki jai and as he was carrying the earth to bring it back to its respectable place the great demon Hiranyaksha came to stop him he called him an amphibious beast and he challenged him to fight, but the supreme personality of Godhead is a possessor of all six opulence’s in full.  One of his opulence’s is renunciation and the greatest form of renunciation is renunciation of our ego our prestige.  The Lord for he sake of protecting the earth and all of the inhabitants of earth was willing to accept such terrible, terrible humiliation from this monstrous demon who is insulting him with the most piercing, frightening words, and after the Lord placed the earth in its proper place then he came back to fight with Hiranyaksha.

Battle between Varaha Dev and Hiranyaksha 

Maitreya Muni explains to Vidura the blow by blow action of this great battle, which was something wonderful and for those who like matches of to strong personalities you will find the fulfillment of all our desires in this wonderful battle between Varaha Dev and Hiranyaksha there is no need to go to the world of Wrestling Federation matches in Dadar I see the signs everywhere people they are trying imitate Hiranyaksha, they put on all these masks and everything look they are like little babies compared to Hiranyaksha and they fight against each other and in America one of the largest money making sports is boxing where the people just beat each other with their fists and millions of people either go to the stadium or watch on television as they are seeing two strong personalities pounding and beating and punching each other and practically most all athletic events people trying to show their powers of how they defeat another and this is very attractive why is it attractive? Why are people attracted to such crazy thing of watching people beat each other and pound each other it is because originally we love to see the Lord having these fighting lilas with his devotees, but because we have lost our recognition of our relationship with god we are trying to fill that thirst in our heart by seeing ordinary mundane people beating each other and we make no spiritual advancement in fact we do not make any advancement, but by hearing the wonderful story of Varaha Dev fighting with Hiranyaksha not only it is so enjoyable and wonderful and exciting and exhilarating to our mind and senses and heart, but also it purifies us and creates love of god from within us it liberates us from the clutches of material existence so they were pounding each other with their maces and when their maces struck one another it created such a resounding echoing effect that it deafened the entire universe and everyone was watching as spectators.  The demons they were all rodding for Hiranyaksha to win and the demigods and the devotees they were all pushing on the Lord to win it was a great match and at one time Hiranyaksha created such a mystic arena where there was just volumes and volumes of terrible catastrophes all over the world all coming toward the Lord, but the Lord simply with his Sudarshan Chakra just spinning on his finger the light of it made everything go away and ultimately the demigods they were actually becoming very afraid because Hiranyaksha was so strong they were praying please my Lord, please now is time kill him so although with such a terrible, terrible fight the Lord wanted to show that actually it is all my play and just by touching him gently touching him behind the ear with his hoof, a boars hand is called a hoof and then Hiranyaksha just became unconscious and then the Lord gently stabbed him with his tusk and fell to the ground like a banyan tree uprooted by the wind and fell dead.  Sri Varaha Bhagwan ki Jai and everyone was so relieved that Hiranyaksha is dead and the higher living beings began to shower flowers upon the Lord and then he again ascended into the sky and he assumed the form of bluish temal tree, he became blue in complexion the very complexion of Lord Narayana himself just to show everyone that actually he is the supreme personality of Godhead then after receiving the worship and the prayers of his devotees he returned to the spiritual abode.

We should know that Jai and Vijay fell as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu who was killed by Varaha Dev and Narasimha Dev, next is Ravana and Kumbhkarana who was killed by Lord Sri Ram, next as Dantvakra and Shishupal who were killed by Krishna they were not just ordinary demons they were actually great devotees and Jeva Goswami very, very extensively explains the nature of these six demons and he explains how they were never covered by material energy, they were never actually in maya because how could the Lords devotees who are taking part in the Lords pastimes in this way ever be covered maya they were just like theatrical performers just playing these roles, but in the inner core of their hearts they actually knew their identities as the eternal servants of the Lord and they were simply making a show of being terrible, terrible demons just so the Lord will find pleasure in fighting with them and liberating them and also they were playing this role knowing that by behaving like this they would attract the supreme personality of Godhead to come to the material world, which was his desire.

pariträëäya sädhünäà

vinäçäya ca duñkåtäm

dharma-saàsthäpanärthäya

sambhavämi yuge yuge

In order to protect my devotees and annihilate the demons and reestablish principles of religion I descend for ordinary demons the Lord does not come down to kill he does not waste his time, it is through time he destroys them or through some other means, but in order to exhibit beautiful, wonderful, magnificent pastimes that will attract all the world for all time to come he comes as a half man, half lion, he comes as a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful boar why? Just to attract our hearts and give pleasures to his devotees, but to make his pastimes very wonderful and exciting he sent Jai and Vijay to play the role of Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu and these other demons and we find in these demon forms they were always thinking of the supreme personality of Godhead they would never forgetting him as theatrical performers just like sometimes even here at RadhaGopinath temple our devotees perform dramas just like in one drama Hari Keeshav was Hiranyakasipu and Madhava was Prahlad and Hari Keeshav was actually blaspheming the Lord he was actually blaspheming the Lord and blaspheming the greatest Vaishnavas Raghunath also he was Hiranyakasipu he was also blaspheming the Lord and his devotees terribly threatening to kill and murder and everything so we should know that although they were really playing the part in fact they won awards Nathji won the academy award for being Shuklacharya who was blaspheming Vaman Dev, he was blaspheming the supreme personality of Godhead, but we saw Raghunath and Hari Keeshav we were thinking my god Hiranyakasipu is empowering them.  The theatrical performance was so wonderful they put their heart and their soul so much into being demons that some of our children were crying they thought they were actually demons so in the same way Jai and Vijay took these roles and they played their part so well that everyone thought they were demons, but actually they were servants of the Lord performing the wonderful pastimes of the Lord just to attract our hearts and minds always to the service of his lotus feet.