text: protects us from मृत्यु. So therefore if anybody's feeling uneasy or there's a प्राण संकटम् at hand and it feels like yes life may go, the first देवता to to do a नमस्कारम् to is मृत्युञ्जय. Why we said he's identical to नरसिंह is because प्रह्लाद's प्राणम् was in संकटम्.