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The Lord Slays the King of the Demons
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power to rule you, and therefore you are an obstinate fool. Today I shall send you to the place of Yamarāja.
PURPORT
Hiraṇyakaśipu condemned his Vaiṣṇava son Prahlāda for being  durvinīta —ungentle, uncivilized, or impudent. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura, however, has derived a meaning from this word  durvinīta  by the mercy of the goddess of learning, Sarasvatī. He says that  duḥ  refers to this material world. This is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in His instruction in  Bhagavad-gītā  that this material world is  duḥkhālayam , full of material conditions.  Vi  means  viśeṣa , “specifically,” and  nīta  means “brought in.” By the mercy of the Supreme Lord, Prahlāda Mahārāja was especially brought to this material world to teach people how to get out of the material condition. Lord Kṛṣṇa says,  yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata . When the entire population, or part of it, becomes forgetful of its own duty, Kṛṣṇa comes. When Kṛṣṇa is not present the devotee is present, but the mission is the same: to free the poor conditioned souls from the clutches of the  māyā  that chastises them.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura further explains that the word  mandātman  means  manda —very bad or very slow in spiritual realization. As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (1.1.10),  mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā . Prahlāda Mahārāja is the guide of all the  mandas , or bad living entities who are under the influence of  māyā . He is the benefactor even of the slow and bad living entities in this material world.  Kula-bheda-karādhama : by his actions, Prahlāda Mahārāja made great personalities who established big, big families seem insignificant. Everyone is interested in his own family and in making his dynasty famous, but Prahlāda Mahārāja was so liberal that he made no distinction between one living entity and another. Therefore he was greater than the great  prajāpatis  who established their dynasties. The word  stabdham  means obstinate. A devotee does not care for the instructions of the  asuras . When they give instructions, he remains silent. A devotee cares about the instructions of Kṛṣṇa, not those of demons or nondevotees. He does not give any respect to a demon, even though the demon be his father.  Mac-chāsanodvṛttam : Prahlāda Mahārāja was disobedient to the orders of his demoniac father.  Yama-kṣayam : every conditioned soul is under the control of Yamarāja, but Hiraṇyakaśipu said that he considered