Text 18] Prahlāda Pacifies the Lord with Prayers
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happy, blissful life, one must become Kṛṣṇa conscious and constantly engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. That is the real remedy. The entire world is under the illusion that people will be happy by advancing in materialistic measures to counteract the miseries of conditional life, but this attempt will never be successful. Humanity must be trained to engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. That is the purpose of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. There can be no happiness in changing one's material conditions, for everywhere there is trouble and misery.
TEXT 18
सोऽहं प्रियस्य सुहृदः परदेवताया लीलाकथास्तव नृसिंह विरिञ्चगीताः । अञ्जस्तितम्यं नुगृणन्गुणविप्रमुक्तो दुर्गाणि ते पदयुगालयहंससङ्गः ॥१८॥
so 'ham priyasya suhṛdaḥ paradevatāyā līlā-kathās tava nṛsiṁha viriñca-gītāḥ añjas titarmy anugṛṇan guṇa-vipramukto durgāṇi te pada-yugālaya-haṁsa-saṅgaḥ
saḥ—that; aham—I (Prahlāda Mahārāja); priyasya—of the dearmost; suhṛdaḥ—well-wisher; paradevatāyāḥ—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; līlā-kathāḥ—narrations of the pastimes; tava—Your; nṛsiṁha—O my Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva; viriñca-gītāḥ—given by Lord Brahmā by the disciplic succession; añjaḥ—easily; titarmi—I shall cross; anugṛṇan—constantly describing; guṇa—by the modes of material nature; vipramuktaḥ—specifically being uncontaminated; durgāṇi—all miserable conditions of life; te—of You; pada-yuga-ālaya—fully absorbed in meditation on the lotus feet; haṁsa-saṅgaḥ—having the association of the haṁsas, or liberated persons (who have no connection with material activities).
TRANSLATION
O my Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, by engaging in Your transcendental loving service in the association of devotees who are liberated