Narasimha Lila Quiz SB 7.2 Section 3 – Verses 7.2.17 – 7.2.26

The third section of Chapter 2 has 10 verses. You can attempt the quiz with an open book. To score full marks you may have to scrutinize Srila Prabhupada’s purports. Read the questions carefully.

Do not attempt the quiz without reading the section. The quiz is facilitation and enablement for you to read Srila Prabhupada’s purports.

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1. What was the cause of lamentation for Hiraṇyakaśipu’s nephews and other relatives?

Supreme Personality of Godhead was being partial to His devotees

Hiraṇyakaśipu’s brother Hiranyaksa was killed by the Lord

Demigods were powerful

Hiraṇyakaśipu was extremely unhappy

2. Who was Ruṣābhānu?

Daughter of Diti

Wife of Hiraṇyakaśipu

Wife of Hiraṇyākṣa

Daughter of Hiraṇyākṣa

3. “The bewildered soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.” (Bg. 3.27)

All the living entities in this material world have come here only because they wanted to be equal to Kṛṣṇa in enjoyment and have thus been sent here to be conditioned by material nature in different degrees.

So, what are the various examples explained in the Translation and Purport to verse SB 7.2.21. Select all that are part of the Purport and Translation only.

Family members are like straws carried together by the waves of a river. Sometimes such straws mix together in whirlpools, and later, dispersed again by the same waves, they float alone in the water.

Criminal prisoners scatter as soon as their terms are over and they are released,

Many travelers are brought together in a restaurant or place for drinking cold water, and after drinking water, they continue to their respective destinations.

Living entities join together in a family, and later, as a result of their own actions, they are led apart to their destinations.

People come together in a wedding party and then disperse after the marriage is over

Young students meet many friends at college but they disperse away after graduation

4. Although Hiraṇyakaśipu was a demon, he had Vedic knowledge and understanding. Thus the advice given to his family members—his sister-in-law, mother and nephews—was quite sound.

Despite their great knowledge, why are they still call demons? Select the BEST applicable.

Because their knowledge is full of ignorance

Because their knowledge or good intelligence is not used in the service of the Lord

Because they are envious of the demigods

Because they do not understand the transmigration of the soul

5. What did Hiraṇyakaśipu explain about the soul to his relatives? Select all that applies. Read carefully there are few incorrect options.

The soul is pure without material contamination

Birth, death, lamentation, foolishness, and anxiety are due to such material considerations

Soul placed under the conditions of material nature will accept a certain type of body to experience pains and pleasures

The soul can go anywhere in the material world or spiritual world

The Soul, after death, becomes a ghost and more powerful, so no need to lament

Demon soul is always secure in Sutala planet

Soul perpetually dies and revives again

The soul is bewildered by modes, considering some people to be kin and others as outsiders

The soul is full of knowledge

The soul is completely different from the material body

Soul is changeless

The soul is agitated by modes to accept a material body as self

The soul suffers due to manodharma – mental activities

The soul is eternal and inexhaustible

6. The living entity is sthāṇur acalo ’yam (BG 2.24).

How to explain this concept that the soul does not move? Select all the explanations below that elaborate on this point. Read carefully, as few options are tricky.

Because the soul never moves from the heart of the living entity

Mental derangement due to dizziness may cause one to see land moving – but the land does not move. Similarly, the soul never takes birth or accepts death but appears to move from one body to another.

Reflections of a tree in the flowing river appear to move – but the tree does not move. Similarly, the soul never takes birth or accepts death but appears to move from one body to another.

A Drunkard or person with heart disease feels the land is moving – but the land does not move. Similarly, the soul never takes birth or accepts death but appears to move from one body to another.

7. Who has written Prema-vivarta?

Śrī Jagadānanda Paṇḍita

Śrīla Rupa Gosvāmī

Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī

Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya

8. The living entity is born in different families or species of life because of being infected by the modes of material nature.

Which Bhagavad Gita line BEST explains this?

bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā

mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ

Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya sad-asad-yoni janmasu

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