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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 5]
TRANSLATION
Śrī Nārada Muni continued: When Hiraṇyakaśipu received this reply from the teacher, he again addressed his son Prahlāda. Hiraṇyakaśipu said: You rascal, most fallen of our family, if you have not received this education from your teachers, where have you gotten it?
PURPORT
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura explains that devotional service is actually  bhadrā satī , not  abhadra asatī . In other words, knowledge of devotional service can be neither inauspicious nor contrary to etiquette. To learn devotional service is the duty of everyone. Therefore the spontaneous education of Prahlāda Mahārāja is supported as auspicious and perfect.
TEXT 30
श्रीप्रह्लाद उवाच
मतिर्न कृष्णे परतः स्वतो वा
मिथोऽभिपद्येत गृहत्रतानाम् ।
अदान्तगोभिर्विशतां तमिस्रं
पुनः पुनश्चर्वितचर्वणानाम् ॥३०॥
śrī-prahrāda uvāca
matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā
mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām
adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ
punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām
śrī-prahrādaḥ uvāca—Prahlāda Mahārāja said;  matiḥ —inclination;  na —never;  kṛṣṇe —unto Lord Kṛṣṇa;  parataḥ —from the instructions of others;  svataḥ —from their own understanding;  vā —either;  mithaḥ —from combined effort;  abhipadyeta —is developed;  gṛha-vratānām —of persons too addicted to the materialistic, bodily conception of life;  adānta —uncontrolled;  gobhiḥ —by the senses;  viśatām —entering;  tamisram —hellish life;  punaḥ —again;  punaḥ —again;  carvita —things already chewed;  carvaṇānām —who are chewing.