Why do we worship God in such a fierce form of Narasimha?

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why do we worship the lord in such a fierce fashion especially new people can get this question yes, actually love is not a stereotype love doesn’t always involve smiling and embracing and being happy that is certainly one aspect of love but another aspect of love is also that when our beloved is threatened we feel concerned we feel anger so at what level Hiranyakashipu Mahasimhadeva is a very rigorous and polite man but when we understand why these fears are binding it is because of his love these people that have been threatened and attacked by Hiranyakashipu and out of his love for his devotees the lord is enraged and in fact he is so angry that everybody else trembles and even the demigods are not able to see is this really the lord what will he do is he going to do this he sees that actually this is not Hiranyakashipu fearlessly includes the lord and offers him and offers him obeisances and offers him prayers and the lord becomes pleased and satisfied the lord is roaring like a ferocious lion on seeing Prahalad starts falling like a tender cat and the lord blesses Prahalad and then the lord has very sweet reciprocations with him so if we can see the Ugra Rupa of lord Mahasimhadeva where his mouth is wide open and the anger is amazing and his hands are appraised in a very venerating posture and if you feel intimidated by that form then we can also show them the other form of the lord where the lord is placing his hand on Prahalad’s mother’s head and there is a large brown smile and his eyes are filled with so much love and then we can say actually this is also the same lord so the anger is an expression of a loving concern to the lord so when there is love love should be seen beyond the superstitions, we understand that the lord is all loving but at times that love also expresses itself as anger and if we understand the depth and the subtlety of love then we will see that anger also has an expression of love and that’s why Sridhar Swami one of the great Acharyas who has commented in the Bhagavatam he used to say to Mahasimhadeva when he says that that lioness is extremely fierce for other living beings like for the lion cub she is the embodiment of motherhood and love, similarly Mahasimhadeva is extremely fierce in fighting for others but for the devotees Lord Mahasimhadeva is the embodiment of love he is giving us the vision that we can see the fierce form of Lord Mahasimhadeva that fieriness is the expression of his love and concern for his devotees