170 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 18

ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam visame bhavambudhau
krpaya tava padda-pankaja-
sthiti-dhili-sadrsam vicintaya
‘“Oson of Maharaja Nanda [Krsna], I am Your eternal servitor, yet some-
how or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick
Me up from the ocean of death and place Me as one of the atoms at Your
lotus feet.”” In another prayer Lord Caitanya says, mama janmani Jan-
manisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi: “Life after life, kindly let
Me have unalloyed love and devotion at Your Lordship’s lotus feet.”
When Prahlada Maharaja chants om namo bhagavate narasimhaya, he
prays for a benediction from the Lord, but because he is also an exalted
Vaisnava, he wants nothing for his personal sense gratification. The first
desire expressed in his prayer is svasty astu visvasya: ‘Let there be good
fortune throughout the entire universe.” Prahlada Maharaja thus re-
quested the Lord to be merciful to everyone, including his father, a most
envious person. According to Canakya Pandita, there are two kinds of
envious living entities: one is a snake, and the other is the man like
Hiranyakasipu, who is by nature envious of everyone, even of his father
or son. Hiranyakasipu was envious of his little son Prahlada, but
Prahlada Maharaja asked a benediction for the benefit of his father.
Hiranyakasipu was very envious of devotees, but Prahlada wished that
his father and other demons like him would give up their envious nature
by the grace of the Lord and stop harassing the devotees (khalah
prasidatam). The difficulty is that the khala (envious living entity) is
rarely pacified. One kind of khala, the snake, can be pacified simply by
mantras or by the action of a particular herb (mantrausadhi-vasah sar-
pah khalakena nivaryate). An envious person, however, cannot be
pacified by any means. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja prays that all en-
vious persons may undergo a change of heart and think of the welfare of
others.

If the Krsna consciousness movement spreads all over the world, and
if by the grace of Krsna everyone accepts it, the thinking of envious peo-
ple will change. Everyone will think of the welfare of others. Therefore
Prahlada Maharaja prays, sivam mitho dhiya. In material activities,
everyone is envious of others, but in Krsna consciousness, no one is en-
