Chapter 3: Hiranyakas'ipu's
Plan
to
Become
Immortal
(29) Operating
through
the
life
force, you constitute
the
factual
control
of
the
moving
and
immobile
creatures.
You
are the
origin
of all activities and the mastermind and source of insight of all
living beings. You are the great Lord of the knowing and acting
senses, the
controller of the material
elements, their qualities and the mind thereabout
[compare B.G. 7:
7].
Chapter 4:
Hiranyakas'ipu Terrorizes the Universe
(8) Situated
in the pleasure garden of
the
gods with the riches of all opulence, he thus resided in the highest world. Living
in the palace of the king of heaven as created by Vis'vakarmâ,
the
great Asura architect, he, in control of all the wealth of the
entire universe, dominated
the
three
worlds
from that
abode of Lakshmî.
Chapter 5:
Prahlâda Mahârâja, the Saintly
Son
of Hiranyakas'ipu
(30) S'rî Prahlâda said: 'Persons
swearing by a
worldly existence develop a life
leading to hell, for they fail
in their sense control and
repeatedly chew the chewed. They are never inclined toward Krishna [see
B.G. 4:
4-5] because of what others
tell them, out of their own understanding or by a combination of
the two [see also B.G. 2:
44].