My humble prayers to my Lord Naraimhadeva: -
O’ Nåsiàhadeva! Your form is very terrible with Your long and sharp teeth. You are very fearful to see with strong large nails and garlanded by flames. Destroy, destroy my obstacles! Kick out, kick out my fear! Scatter, scatter my enemies! Destroy, destroy my karma! Flash, flash! Kill, kill! Cut, cut! Ever fulfill, ever fulfill all my desires to serve You. Safeguard, safeguard me and all around me.
Although I was very wealthy, I am blind and without discrimination. I have been robbed of my great treasure (Kåñëa consciousness) by the thieves known as the senses. Despite of all my attempts to appease them with different types of offerings, they have thrown me into the pit of illusion and darkness. O Lakshmi Narasimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands.
I bow down before Lord Nåsiàha, who is splendid like thousands of rising suns, whose eyes are filled with anger, whose roar is like the roaring of the ocean at the time of the universe's destruction, whose face is like the blazing fires at the end of the kalpa, whose limbs are sprinkled with blood from the broken chest of Indra's enemy and who removes the fears of His surrendered devotees.
5 Prayers to Lord Narasimha by Bhaktivinoda Thakura: -
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written five beautiful prayers in “Sri Navadvipa Bhava Taranga” for receiving the mercy of Lord Narasimha. These prayers are certainly assurance to all sincere devotees that the worship of Lord Narasimha is purely in the line of aspiring love and devotion to Sri Sri Radha and Krsna.
1. Within my sinful heart the six enemies headed by lust perpetually reside, as well as duplicity, the desire for fame, plus sheer cunning. At the lotus feet of Lord Narasimha, I hope that He will mercifully purify my heart and give me the desire to serve Lord Krsna.
2. Weeping, I will beg at the lotus-feet of Lord Narasimha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krsna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties. When will this Lord Hari, Whose terrible form strikes fear into fear itself, ever become pleased and show me His mercy?
3. Even though Lord Narasimha is terrifying towards the sinful souls, He offers great auspiciousness unto the devotees of Lord Krsna headed by Prahlada Maharaja. When will He be pleased to speak words of compassion unto me, a worthless fool and thereby make me fearless?
4. He will say, “Dear child! Sit down freely and live happily here in Sri Gauranga-dhama. May you nicely worship the Divine Couple and may you develop loving attachment for Their Holy Names. By the mercy of My devotees, all obstacles are cast far away. With a purified heart, just perform the worship of Radha and Krsna, for such worship overflows with sweet nectar.”
5. Saying this, that Lord will delightedly place His own divine lotus feet upon my head? Suddenly I will experience sublime love for the Divine Couple Radha-Krsna and undergo the ecstatic transformations called sattvika. Falling on the ground, I will roll about by the door of Sri Nrsimha's temple.
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Ugra Vīraṁ Mahāviṣṇu
Official Name: Nrsimha Kavaca Bija Mantra
ugra vīraṁ mahāviṣṇu
jvalantam sarvato mukhaṁ
nṛsimhaṁ bhiṣaṇaṁ bhadraṁ
mṛtyor mṛtyuṁ namāy’ahaṁ
TRANSLATION
'May my head be protected by the moon colored one, who is the greatest among humans. My obeisances unto the ferocious and powerful, the great Visnu, the fiery one, who's faces are on all sides, the fearful one, Nrsimha, who causes the death of even death personified.
Hares Krishna. Haribol.
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