I was reading Srimad Bhagavatam today in the morning.
Canto 7 - one of my favourite parts - where Lord Nrsimhadev rips out the
heart and intestines of Hiranyakasipu.
Nrsimhadev Bhagavan ki jay !
There was a nice section which I came across in the purport and it said
that for a while Nrsimhadev let go of Hiranyakasipu like a cat lets go
of a mouse.
The mouse thinks it is free of the clutches of the cat and breathes a
sign of relief but then after a few seconds the cat swoops upon the
mouse and kills it.
I have seen this type of cat and mouse game up front as we used to have
a fat cat called Ginger (I named him Ginger as he was ginger in colour
!).
Anyway back to the main point ... All the demigods were perturbed as
they saw Hiranyakasipu get out of the clutches of Nrsimhadev and they
thought he will kill them. However Srila Prabhupada explains in the
purport that just as in material life we see a sinful man 'enjoying' and
think how can that be? eventually we see that his sinful activities
catch up with him and that material life only temporarily backs off
him..
Similarly Nrsimhadev let Hiranyakasipu temporarily have a breather but
eventually devoured him.
I also heard once in a Srila Prabhupada lecture that life is like a
movie reel. We judge people and circumstances by the here and now but we
do not know what happened several lives before and what is yet to come
several lives down the line... and so we gotta judge less and seek to
learn more.
