Text 5] Prahlāda, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
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हित्वात्मपातं गृहमन्धकूपं   वनं गतो यद्धरिमाश्रयेत ॥ ५ ॥
śrī-prahlāda uvāca   tat sādhu manye 'sura-varya dehinām   sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt   hitvātma-pātam gṛham andha-kūpam   vanam gato yad dharim āśrayeta
śrī-prahlādaḥ uvāca —Prahlāda Mahārāja replied;  tat —that;  sādhu —very good, or the best part of life;  manye —I think;  asura-varya —O King of the  asuras ;  dehinām —of persons who have accepted the material body;  sadā —always;  samudvigna —full of anxieties;  dhiyām —whose intelligence;  asat-grahāt —because of accepting the temporary body or bodily relations as real (thinking “I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine”);  hitvā —giving up;  ātma-pātam —the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped;  gṛham —the bodily concept of life, or household life;  andha-kūpam —which is nothing but a blind well (where there is no water but one nonetheless searches for water);  vanam —to the forest;  gataḥ —going;  yat —which;  harim —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  āśrayeta —may take shelter of.
TRANSLATION
Prahlāda Mahārāja replied:  O best of the  asuras , King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vṛndāvana, where only Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
Hiraṇyakaśipu thought that Prahlāda, being nothing but a small boy with no actual experience, might reply with something pleasing but