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[Canto 7, Ch. 2]
annihilation. Rather, one should be very seriously concerned about the soul within the body and how to release the soul from the material clutches. The living entity within the body is never annihilated; therefore one should surely know that whether one has many friends or many enemies, his friends cannot help him, and his enemies cannot do him any harm. One should know that he is a spirit soul ( aham brahmāsmi ) and that the constitutional position of the soul is unaffected by the changes of the body. In all circumstances, everyone, as a spirit soul, must be a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu and should not be concerned with bodily relationships, whether with friends or with enemies. One should know that neither we ourselves nor our enemies in the bodily conception of life are ever killed.
TEXT 61
श्रीनारद उवाच
इति दैत्यपतेर्वाक्यं दितिराकर्ण्य सप्तुषा ।
पुत्रशोकं क्षणात्यक्त्वा तत्त्वे चित्तमघात्यत् ॥६१॥
śrī-nārada uvāca 
    iti daitya-pater vākyam 
    ditir ākarṇya sasnuṣā 
    putra-śokam kṣaṇāt tyaktvā 
    tattve cittam adhārayat
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada Muni said;  iti —thus;  daitya-pateḥ —of the King of the demons;  vākyam —the speech;  ditiḥ —Diti, the mother of Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa;  ākarṇya —hearing;  sa-snuṣā —with the wife of Hiraṇyākṣa;  putra-śokam —the great bereavement for her son, Hiraṇyākṣa;  kṣaṇāt —immediately;  tyaktvā —giving up;  tattve —in the real philosophy of life;  cittam —heart;  adhārayat —engaged.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Nārada Muni continued: Diti, the mother of Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa, heard the instructions of Hiraṇyakaśipu along with her daughter-in-law, Ruṣābhānu, Hiraṇyākṣa's wife. She then forgot her grief over her son's death and thus engaged her mind and attention in understanding the real philosophy of life.