neglected prayers of Prahlada Maharaja as they are to truthfull

10-26-2006, 10:55 AM

SB 5.18.7: Œukadeva Gosv•m• continued: My dear King, Lord Nr•sim•hadeva
resides in the tract of land known as Hari-vars•a. In the Seventh Canto of Œr•
mad-Bh•gavatam, I shall describe to you how Prahl•da Mah•r•ja caused the Lord
to assume the form of Nr•sim•hadeva. Prahl•da Mah•r•ja, the topmost devotee
of the Lord, is a reservoir of all the good qualities of great personalities.
His character and activities have delivered all the fallen members of his
demoniac family. Lord Nr•sim•hadeva is very dear to this exalted personality.
Thus Prahl•da Mah•r•ja, along with his servants and all the denizens of
Hari-vars
•a, worships Lord Nr•sim•hadeva by chanting the following mantra.
SB 5.18.8: I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nr•sim•hadeva, the
source of all power. O my Lord who possesses nails and teeth just like
thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in
this
material world. Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so
that by
Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in this
material world.
SB 5.18.9: May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all
envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing
bhakti-yoga, for by accepting devotional service they will think of each
other's
welfare. Therefore let us all engage in the service of the supreme
transcendence, Lord Œr• Kr•s•n•a, and always remain absorbed in thought of Him.
SB 5.18.10: My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the
prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank
balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment, let it be for
devotees,
whose only dear friend is Kr•s•n•a. A person who is actually self-realized
and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare
necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses. Such a person
quickly
advances in Kr•s•n•a consciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to
material things, find advancement very difficult.
SB 5.18.11: By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful activities
and soon come to understand them. The activities of Mukunda are so potent that
simply by hearing of them one immediately associates with the Lord. For a
person who constantly and very eagerly hears narrations of the Lord's powerful
activities, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead in the form of sound

vibrations, enters within his heart and cleanses it of all contamination. On
the
other hand, although bathing in the Ganges diminishes bodily contaminations
and infections, this process and the process of visiting holy places can
cleanse the heart only after a long time. Therefore who is the sane man who
will not
associate with devotees to quickly perfect his life?
SB 5.18.12: All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion,
knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has
developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, V•sudeva.
On the
other hand, a person devoid of devotional service and engaged in material
activities has no good qualities. Even if he is adept at the practice of mystic

yoga or the honest endeavor of maintaining his family and relatives, he must be

driven by his own mental speculations and must engage in the service of the
Lord's external energy. How can there be any good qualities in such a man?
SB 5.18.13: Just as aquatics always desire to remain in the vast mass of
water, all conditioned living entities naturally desire to remain in the vast
existence of the Supreme Lord. Therefore if someone very great by material
calculations fails to take shelter of the Supreme Soul but instead becomes
attached
to material household life, his greatness is like that of a young, low-class
couple. One who is too attached to material life loses all good spiritual
qualities.
SB 5.18.14: Therefore, O demons, give up the so-called happiness of family
life and simply take shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Nr•sim•hadeva, which are

the actual shelter of fearlessness. Entanglement in family life is the root
cause of material attachment, indefatigable desires, moroseness, anger,
despair, fear and the desire for false prestige, all of which result in the
repetition of birth and death.
( He is addressing the asuras ,thus the word demon)