Text 14] Prahlāda, the Best Among Exalted Devotees
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because one sometimes has to act impiously and sometimes has to act piously. Although one does not want to act impiously, the world is so fashioned that there is always danger ( padam padam yad vipadām ). Thus even when performing devotional service a devotee has to create many enemies. Prahlāda Mahārāja himself had experience of this, for even his father became his enemy. A devotee should expertly manage to think always of the Supreme Lord so that the reactions of suffering cannot touch him. This is the expert management of  pāpa-puṇya —pious and impious activities. An exalted devotee like Prahlāda Mahārāja is  jīvan-mukta ; he is liberated even in this very life in the material body.
TEXT 14
य एतत् कीर्तयेन्मह्यं त्वया गीतमिदं नरः । त्वां च मां च स्मरन्काले कर्मबन्धात् प्रमुच्यते॥१४॥
ya etat kīrtayen mahyam tvayā gītam idam naraḥ tvām ca mām ca smaran kāle karma-bandhāt pramucyate
yaḥ —anyone who;  etat —this activity;  kīrtayet —chants;  mahyam —unto Me;  tvayā —by you;  gītam —prayers offered;  idam —this;  naraḥ —human being;  tvām —you;  ca —as well as;  mām ca —Me also;  smaran —remembering;  kāle —in due course of time;  karma-bandhāt —from the bondage of material activities;  pramucyate —becomes free.
TRANSLATION
One who always remembers your activities and My activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course of time, from the reactions of material activities.
PURPORT
Here it is stated that anyone who chants and hears about the activities of Prahlāda Mahārāja and, in relationship with Prahlāda's activities, the activities of Nṛsiṁhadeva, gradually becomes free from all the bondage of fruitive activities. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.15, 2.56):