Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.11.56

athāpy abhibhavanty enaḿ

naiva te ghora-darśanāḥ

jighāḿsayainam āsādya

naśyanty agnau patańgavat

SYNONYMS

atha api — although they come to attack; abhibhavanti — they are able to kill; enam — this boy; na — not; eva — certainly; te — all of them; ghora-darśanāḥ — very fierce looking; jighāḿsayā — because of envy; enam — unto Kṛṣṇa; āsādya — approaching; naśyanti — are vanquished (death occurs to the aggressor); agnau — in fire; patańga-vat — like flies.

TRANSLATION

Although the causes of death, the daityas, were very fierce, they could not kill this boy Kṛṣṇa. Rather, because they came to kill innocent boys, as soon as they approached they themselves were killed, exactly like flies attacking a fire.

PURPORT

Nanda Mahārāja innocently thought, "Perhaps this boy Kṛṣṇa formerly killed all these demons, and therefore in this life they are envious and are attacking Him. But Kṛṣṇa is a fire, and they are flies, and in a fight between fire and flies, the fire is always victorious." Fighting is always taking place between the demons and the power of the Supreme Personality. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāḿ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām (Bg. 4.8). Anyone who is against the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead must be killed, life after life. Ordinary living beings are subject to karma, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always victorious over the demons.

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