Text 6] Prahlāda, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
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the platform of worshiping Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise, if one remains in the bodily conception, one must rot within this material world, and his life will be a failure. Society must have divisions of  brāhmaṇa ,  kṣatriya ,  vaiśya  and  śūdra , and for spiritual advancement one must gradually develop as a  brahmacārī ,  gṛhastha ,  vānaprastha  and  sannyāsī . Prahlāda Mahārāja recommended that his father accept  vānaprastha  life because as a  gṛhastha  he was becoming increasingly demoniac due to bodily attachment. Prahlāda recommended to his father that accepting  vānaprastha  life would be better than going deeper and deeper into  gṛham andha-kūpam , the blind well of life as a  gṛhastha . In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we therefore invite all the elderly persons of the world to come to Vṛndāvana and stay there in retired life, making advancement in spiritual consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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श्रीनारद उवाच
श्रुत्वा पुत्रगिरो दैत्यः परपक्षसमाहिताः ।
जहास बुद्धिबलिनां मिद्यते परबुद्धिमिः ॥ ६ ॥
śrī-nārada uvāca
śrutvā putra-giro daityaḥ
para-pakṣa-samāhitāḥ
jahāsa buddhir bālānām
bhidyate para-buddhibhiḥ
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Nārada Muni said; śrutvā—hearing; putra-giraḥ—the instructive words of his son; daityaḥ—Hiraṇyakaśipu; para-pakṣa—on the side of the enemy; samāhitāḥ—full of faith; jahāsa—laughed; buddhiḥ—the intelligence; bālānām—of small boys; bhidyate—is polluted; para-buddhibhiḥ—by instructions from the enemy's camp.
TRANSLATION
Nārada Muni continued: When Prahlāda Mahārāja spoke about the path of self-realization in devotional service, thus being