Text 19]
Prahlāda Pacifies the Lord with Prayers
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really happy; otherwise happiness is impossible. One might say that becoming advanced in spiritual life also involves  tapasya , voluntary acceptance of some inconvenience. However, such inconvenience is not as dangerous as material attempts to mitigate all miseries.
TEXT 19
बालस्य नेह शरणं पितरौ नृसिंह नार्तस्य चागदमुदन्वति मज्जतो नौः । तत्प्रतिविधिर्य इहाञ्जसेष्ट- स्तावद् विभो तनुभृतां त्वदुपेक्षितानाम् ॥१९॥
bālasya neha śaraṇam pitarau nṛsiṁha nārtasya cāgadam udanvati majjato nauḥ taptasya tat-pratividhir ya ihāñjaseṣṭas tāvad vibho tanu-bhrtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām
bālasya —of a little child;  na —not;  iha —in this world;  śaraṇam —shelter (protection);  pitarau —the father and mother;  nṛsiṁha —O my Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva;  na —neither;  ārtasya —of a person suffering from some disease;  ca —also;  agadam —medicine;  udanvati —in the water of the ocean;  majjataḥ —of a person who is drowning;  nauḥ —the boat;  taptasya —of a person suffering from a condition of material misery;  tat-pratividhiḥ —the counteraction (invented for stopping the suffering of material existence);  yaḥ —that which;  iha —in this material world;  añjasā —very easily;  iṣṭaḥ —accepted (as a remedy);  tāvat —similarly;  vibho —O my Lord, O Supreme;  tanu-bhrtāṁ —of the living entities who have accepted material bodies;  tvat-upekṣitānām —who are neglected by You and not accepted by You.
TRANSLATION
My Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, O Supreme, because of a bodily conception of life, embodied souls neglected and not cared for by You cannot do anything for their betterment. Whatever remedies they accept, although perhaps temporarily beneficial, are certainly impermanent. For example, a father and mother cannot protect their