Long Long ago, there was a king named ‘Hiranya Kashyap'. He was a very cruel king. One day he took his military and attack in ‘dev lok’( a place where god lives except ‘lord Vishnu’’) and defeat all the gods by entering rudely into gods assembly with his military and defeat all the gods with his power of boon given by Lord Brahma for his severe austerity. Then he started thinking that he was the only god all over the world and then he defeats all the kings in the world with the power of his boon.
When he does severe austerity, Lord Brahma was very happy with him and went in front of Hiranyakashyap and asks him to take a boon of his that he likes to take.
He took the boon of being immortal. But Lord Brahma said that it was impossible. So Hiranyakashyap said that ‘’ no problem please give me a boon that I will not die in-home or outside of the home, I will not die in the day or in the night, I will not die by a human, gods or by any disease.’’ Lord Brahma gave this boon to the Hiranyakashyap. Then he thought that he indirectly took the boon of immortal. So he left scaring from anyone and won all over the dev lok, Prithvi Lok (earth) and Patal Lok (place under the land). Then he thought that he was the only god all over the three Loks. he started torturing people to doing worship Hiranyakashyap as a god. he started torching god also to worship him as a god.
The king of Dev Lok before Hiranyakashyap was ‘Indra’. Infra went to taking help to Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu accepted the request of Indra and told him that everything will be alright soon. Then Hiranyakashyap marriage with a lady ‘Kayadu’. After some time of marriage, the Kayadu give birth to a male child named ‘Prahlad’. When Prahlad grew, he was a big devotee of Lord Vishnu, but his father torched him to worship his father only, but Prahlad never do his cruel father’s worship. Hiranyakashyap was very ruthless because Prahlad didn’t worship him as God, he tried many things to teach Prahlad that worship Hiranyakashyap as God. first, he sent Prahlad to the ‘gurukul’(ancient time schools) where the teachers teach him that his father is a God. but Prahlad refused to worship Hiranyakashyap as a god. Many more things Hiranyakashyap does to teach Prahlad, but he never worshiped him. Then Hiranyakashyap decided to kill the Prahlad. He tried many times to kill Prahlad, first, he left Prahlad in the forest alone. But, Prahlad always calls the name of Lord Vishnu and Lord Vishnu also was very happy with Prahlad, so he does many miracles for Prahlad. Once when a bell cart was passing through that forest that was going to Hiranyakashyap’s fort to supply grains, was stop for rest, at that time Prahlad entered the bull cart by a miracle and the driver went into Hiranyakashyap’s fort with his bull cart. Hiranyakashyap’s anger was increased more and he threw Prahlad from the top of the mountain, but Prahlad was safe by Lord Vishnu came to the bottom of the mountain and caught Prahlad in his hand. Prahlad was saved again. There was also a sister of Hiranyakashyap named ‘Holika’, she had a boon that fire can not be caught her, she was always protected from fire. So, she gave an idea to Hiranyakashyap that she will enter the fire with Prahlad. Hiranyakashyap gave permission to Holika for this idea and then the next day when Holika enter the fire with Prahlad, it happened reverse from expectation, Prahlad remains safe and Holika got burnt. Because God’s boons always give help good things and never help more in misuse of their power.
That’s why we burn holy on the holy festival and we burnt holy in the evening because this happened in the evening it is also called ‘’Holika Dahan’’. Then, when Prahlad came back home his father asked him ‘where is your God, I can’t see him, can you see him?’ Prahlad said ‘yes, he present everywhere in the world.’ Nearby there was a pillar, Hiranyakashyap went near the pillar and asked Prahlad that ‘your god present in this pillar also/’ he said ‘yes.’ Hiranyakashyap ordered his worker that destroy this pillar, I want to meet his god.’ When the worker destroys the pillar, they saw that there was a man in the pillar whose hair body was a lion’s body and half of his body was of a human being and he was looking very dangerous and when he came all of the people were scared an environment was totally changed, there was no ay and no night and that place was also changed, they were not in the home and outside the home. The men were called ‘Narsingh’(nar=human being and singh= lion).
Naringh kills Hiranyakashyap with his dangerous nails and before dyeing Hiranyakashyap hears a sound release by the sky that‘’Hiranyakashyap now you are dyeing. According to your boon, you are not at home and outside of the home, you are near the Narsingh Ji. there is no night and no day and you are not killed by a simple human, god, and not by any disease.’’ then Hiranyakashyap was killed, and Narshingh Ji declares Prahlad as an heir of Hiranyakashyap’s kingdom and then Prahlad called as ‘’Bhakt Shiromani’’(A great devotee). Narsingh Ji was a form of Lord Vishnu. That’s why we celebrate Holi by colors on the next morning of Holika Dahan in the happiness of victory over misuse of power and victory of a devotee, who has great faith in god.
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