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I have been inspired to do a fire ritual for Narasimha, very powerful incarnation of Vishnu, to kill negativity in general, through the death of this (more)

I have been inspired to do a fire ritual for Narasimha, very powerful incarnation of Vishnu, to kill negativity in general, through the death of this demon Hiranyakashipu. This demon completely denied Vishnu and he was full of himself and thought that he was the God Almighty and Vishnu wanted to teach him a lesson and he was born and he sent a son to this man, this demon. The name of the son is Prahlad or Prahlada in Sanskrit and the son was devoted to Vishnu. ‘Om Namo Narayana’ – that’s the mantra he would chant all the time and the demon was so upset and angry and tried to kill his own son and did by many ways and means to kill his own son because he was devoted to Vishnu.<br>At one point, he asked his son, “You are talking about this Vishnu guy, where is he? Show this Lord to me. Where is he?”<br>He said, “My God, Vishnu is everywhere”<br>And he asked him, “is he there in this pillar?”<br>“Yes”<br>“Then can you ask him to come out of the pillar?”<...

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