Text 11] Prahlāda, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
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the external energy;  kṛtaḥ —created;  vimohita —bewildered;  dhiyām —of those whose intelligence;  dṛṣṭaḥ —practically experienced;  tasmai —unto Him;  bhagavate —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  namaḥ —my respectful obeisances.
TRANSLATION
Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose external energy has created the distinctions of “my friend” and “my enemy” by deluding the intelligence of men. Indeed, I am now actually experiencing this, although I have previously heard of it from authoritative sources.
PURPORT
As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (5.18):
vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle  brāhmaṇa , a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].”  Paṇḍitāḥ , those who are actually learned—the equipoised, advanced devotees who have full knowledge of everything—do not see any living entity as an enemy or friend. Instead, with broader vision, they see that everyone is part of  Kṛṣṇa , as confirmed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ( jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ ). Every living entity, being part of the Supreme Lord, is meant to serve the Lord, just as every part of the body is meant to serve the whole body.
As servants of the Supreme Lord, all living entities are one, but a Vaiṣṇava, because of his natural humility, addresses every other living entity as  prabhu . A Vaiṣṇava sees other servants to be so advanced that he has much to learn from them. Thus he accepts all other devotees of the Lord as  prabhus , masters. Although everyone is a servant of the Lord, one Vaiṣṇava servant, because of humility, sees another servant as