Srimad Bhagavatam

God's Anger Displays Divine Completeness, Bhakti Controls Supreme Lord

📅 February 17, 1977 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 17 min
Only through devotion can one control the Supreme Lord and understand His infinite, transcendent nature beyond all speculation.
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Pradyumna: Translation: "Thereafter Lord Brahmā requested Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was standing very near him: My dear son, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is extremely angry at your demoniac father. Please go forward and appease the Lord." Prabhupāda: prahrādaṁ preṣayām āsa brahmāvasthitam antike tāta praśamayopehi sva-pitre kupitaṁ prabhum [SB 7.9.3] So Nṛsiṁhadeva was very, very angry. Now the atheist class of men, who do not know what is the nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they will say, "Why God should become angry?" So God, why He should not be angry? God must have everything; otherwise how He is God complete?

Pūrṇam. The anger is also another quality of living symptom. The stone does not become angry, because he's stone. But any living being, he becomes angry.

That is a quality. And why God should not be angry? They imagine God; not they have got any factual conception of God. They imagine that "God must be like this.

God must be nonviolent. God must be very peaceful." Why? Wherefrom the anger comes? It comes from God.

Otherwise there is no existence of anger. Everything is there. Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. That is the definition of Brahman. Whatever we have got in experience and whatever we haven't got in experience...

We haven't got everything in experience. Just like about Nṛsiṁhadeva it is said Lakṣmī also had no experience that the Lord can become half lion, half man. Even Lakṣmī, what to speak of others. Lakṣmī, she is constant companion of the Lord.

So it is said, aṣruta. What is that? Adṛṣṭa. Adṛṣṭa aṣruta pūrvatvāt.

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