Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.13

so 'ham vikatthamānasya

śirah kāyād dharāmi te

gopāyeta haris tvādya

yas te śaranam īpsitam

SYNONYMS

sah — he; aham — I; vikatthamānasya — who are speaking such nonsense; śirah — the head; kāyāt — from the body; harāmi — I shall take away; te — of you; gopāyeta — let Him protect; harih — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tvā — you; adya — now; yah — He who; te — your; śaranam — protector; īpsitam — desired.

TRANSLATION

Because you are speaking so much nonsense, I shall now sever your head from your body. Now let me see your most worshipable God come to protect you. I want to see it.

PURPORT

Demons always think that the God of the devotees is fictitious. They think that there is no God and that the so-called religious feeling of devotion to God is but an opiate, a kind of illusion, like the illusions derived from LSD and opium. Hiranyakaśipu did not believe Prahlāda Mahārāja when Prahlāda asserted that his Lord is present everywhere. Because Hiranyakaśipu, as a typical demon, was convinced that there is no God and that no one could protect Prahlāda, he felt encouraged to kill his son. He challenged the idea that the devotee is always protected by the Supreme Lord.

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