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Mahaprabhu says that only those who are fortunate take to this Krsna
consciousness, and they get hopeful life, pleasant life, blissful life, a life
of knowledge.

It is the duty of a Vaisnava to go door to door to make the unfortunate
people fortunate. A Vaisnava thinks, ‘‘How can these people be
delivered from their hellish life?’’ That was Pariksit Maharaja’s inquiry.
“‘Sir,’’ he said, ‘‘you have described that on account of one’s sinful ac-
tivities one is put into a hellish condition of life or in a hellish planetary
system. Now, what are the countermethods by which such persons can
be saved?”’ This is the question. When a Vaisnava comes, when God
Himself comes, or when God’s son or His very confidential devotees
come, their only mission is to save the sinful men who are suffering.

- They have knowledge of how to do this. \

When Prahlada Maharaja met Nrsirnhadeva, he said:

naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaranyas
tvad-virya-gayana-mahamrta-magna-cittah
Soce tato vimukha-cetasa indriyartha-
maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimtidhan
‘“My dear Lord,”’ Prahlada says, ‘‘I am not very anxious for my own
. deliverance.”’ [Bhdg. 7.9.43] Mayavadi philosophers are very careful that
their personal salvation is not interrupted. They think, ‘‘IfI goto preach —
in association with others, I may fall down, and my realization will be
finished.”’ Therefore they do not come. Only the Vaisnavas come, at the
risk of falldown—but they do not fall down. They may even go to hell to
deliver the conditioned souls. This is Prahlada Maharaja’s mission. He
says, naivodvije: ‘I am not very anxious about living in this material
world.””

Prahlada Maharaja says further, ‘‘I have no anxiety for myself because
somehow or other I have been trained to be always Krsna conscious.”
Because he is Krsna conscious, he is confident that in his next life he is
going to Krsna. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that if one executes the
Krsna conscious regulative principles carefully, it is certain that he will
reach the supreme destination in his next life.

Prahlada Maharaja continues: ‘‘There is only one source of anxiety for
me.’” Just see—although he had no anxiety for himself, he still had anxi-
ety. He says, soce tato vimukha-cetasah: ‘‘I am anxious for those persons
who are not Krsna conscious. That is my anxiety. For myself I have no
anxiety, but I am thinking of those who are not Krsna conscious.’ Why
