Holy Remembrance

Like a spotless night darkled dominion Ruled a diabolic king dreadfully demons and devils Amid poison-fed animals wild Nocturnal predator on nocturnal deeds Transgressed even the providence Like an eclipse hiding the sun Feared the whole cosmos so direful Atheistic demon Hiranyakasipu Agnostically against Hari blasphemed Him Atoned for a sin past dwelt in monsterhood Hiranya to be gored by Narasimha Half man-half lion Hari incarnated for restitution Bemused creation abhorred the evil incarnate Destiny schemed, sage Narada instilled Narayana mantra into Hiranyakasipu's babe in the womb Effulgent babe Prahlada pious in contrast Grew to utter Narayana ever in refusal to his begetter Despite the chip-five a bete noire be scourged and wounded Poisoned and fired for his holy tongue Bestowed by Brahma deathless, fearless of death By weapon or human or animal Land or space, day or night infuriated Hiranya In ogreish agony commanded Hari be present at once In there a pillar; Thence pounced upon violently Alas! popped out, the pillar two, Narasimha! Torn apart in His lap Hiranya To be forgotten to be remembered For the virtuous Prahlada Hiranya begot ergo the virtuous finale Narasimha taught