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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 9]
ignorance to enter the material world may be purified of material life if he offers prayers to the Lord and hears the Lord's glories.
PURPORT
It is clearly understood that a devotee does not need to be born in a very high family, to be rich, to be aristocratic or to be very beautiful. None of these qualifications will engage one in devotional service. With devotion one should feel, "God is great, and I am very small. Therefore my duty is to offer my prayers to the Lord." Only on this basis can one understand and render service to the Lord. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.55):
bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ tato mām tattvato jñātvā viśate tad-anantaram
"One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God." Thus Prahlāda Mahārāja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position.
TEXT 13
सर्वे ह्यमी विधिकरास्तव सच्चधाम्नो ब्रह्मादयो वयमिवेश न चोद्विजन्तः। क्षेमाय भूतय उतात्मसुखाय चास्य विक्रीडितं भगवतो रुचिरावतारैः॥१३॥
sarve hy amī vidhi-karās tava sattva-dhāmno brahmādayo vayam iveśa na codvijantaḥ kṣemāya bhūtaya utātma-sukhāya cāsya vikriḍitam bhagavato rucirāvatāraiḥ
sarve—all; hi—certainly; amī—these; vidhi-karāḥ—executors of orders; tava—Your; sattva-dhāmnaḥ—being always situated in the tran-