Text 53] Prahlāda, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
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follow a process of religion to advance, and on the basis of religion one should try to develop his economic condition so that he can fulfill his needs for sense gratification according to the religious rules and regulations. Then liberation from material bondage will be easier to attain. That is the Vedic process. When one is above the stages of  dharma ,  artha ,  kāma  and  mokṣa , one becomes a devotee. He is then on the platform from which he is guaranteed not to fall again to material existence ( yad gatvā na nivartante ). As advised in  Bhagavad-gītā  if one transcends these four processes and is actually liberated, one engages in devotional service. Then he is guaranteed not to fall to material existence again.
TEXT 53
यथा त्रिवर्गं गुरुमिरात्मने उपशिक्षितम् । न साधु मेने तच्छिक्षां द्वन्द्वारामोपवर्णिताम् ॥५३॥
yathā tri-vargam gurubhir ātmane upaśikṣitam na sādhu mene tac-chikṣām dvandvārāmopavarṇitām
yathā —as;  tri-vargam —the three processes (religion, economic development and sense gratification);  gurubhiḥ —by the teachers;  ātmane —unto himself (Prahlāda Mahārāja);  upaśikṣitam —instructed;  na —not;  sādhu —really good;  mene —he considered;  tat-śikṣām —the education in that;  dvandva-ārāma —by persons taking pleasure in duality (in material enmity and friendship);  upavarṇitām —which is prescribed.
TRANSLATION
The teachers  Ṣaṇḍa  and  Amarka  instructed Prahlāda Mahārāja in the three kinds of material advancement called religion, economic development and sense gratification. Prahlāda, however, being situated above such instructions, did not like them, for such instructions are based on the duality of worldly affairs, which involve one in a materialistic way of life marked by birth, death, old age and disease.