S'ince the begiming of ereation, the dermaons and the demiṣst bave alway hen the twvo classes of living beings to dominate the planets of the universes. Lord Brahmā is the first
demigod, and Hiraṇyākṣa is the first demon in this universe.
Only under certain conditions do the planets float as weightless balls in the air, and as soon as these conditions are disturbed, the planets may fall down in the Garbhodaka Ocean, which covers half the universe. The other half is the spherical dome within which the innumerable planetary systems exist. The floating of the planets in the weightless air is due to the inner constitution of the globes, and the drilling of the earth to extract oil from within is a disturbance by the modern demons and can result in a greatly harmful reaction to the floating condition of the earth. A similar disturbance was created formerly by the demons headed by Hiraṇyākṣa, and the earth lost its weightless condition and fell down into the Garbhodaka Ocean. The Lord, as maintainer of the whole creation of the material world, therefore assumed the gigantic form of a boar with a proportional snout in order to lift the earth from within the water of the Garbhodaka Ocean. When the Lord dove into the ocean to pick up the earth, Hiraṇyākṣa challenged Him, and thus the Lord killed the demon by piercing him with His tusk.
(1982)