Text 12] Prahlāda, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
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God. The servant cannot be equal to the master. According to the Vaiṣṇava philosophy, the master is one, and the servants are also one, but the distinction between the master and servant must continue even in the liberated stage. In the conditioned stage we think that some living beings are our friends whereas others are enemies, and thus we are in duality. In the liberated stage, however, the conception is that God is the master and that all living entities, being servants of God, are one.
TEXT 12
स यदानुव्रतः पुंसां पशुबुद्धिर्विभिद्यते । अन्य एष तथान्योऽहमिति भेदगतासती ॥१२॥
sa yadānuvrataḥ puṁsāṁ paśu-buddhir vibhidyate anya eṣa tathānyo 'ham iti bheda-gatāsatī
saḥ —that Supreme Personality of Godhead;  yadā —when;  anuvrataḥ —favorable or pleased;  puṁsāṁ —of the conditioned souls;  paśu-buddhiḥ —the animalistic conception of life (“I am the Supreme, and everyone is God”);  vibhidyate —is destroyed;  anyaḥ —another;  eṣaḥ —this;  tathā —as well as;  anyaḥ —another;  aham —I;  iti —thus;  bheda —distinction;  gata —having;  asatī —which is disastrous.
TRANSLATION
When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a paṇḍita and does not make distinctions between enemies, friends and himself. Intelligently, he then thinks, “Every one of us is an eternal servant of God, and therefore we are not different from one another.”
PURPORT
When Prahlāda Mahārāja’s teachers and demoniac father asked him how his intelligence had been polluted, Prahlāda Mahārāja said, “As far as I am concerned, my intelligence has not been polluted. Rather, by the