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devotional service. Although his good qualities cannot be enumer-
ated, they prove that he was a great soul [mahatma].

PURPORT

In his prayers to the ten incarnations, Jayadeva Gosvami says, kesava
dhrta-narahari-riipa jaya jagad-isa hare. Prahlada Maharaja was a de-
votee of Lord Nrsimha, who is Kesava, Krsna Himself. Therefore when
this verse says vdsudeve bhagavati, one should understand that Prahlada
Maharaja’s attachment for Nrsitnhadeva was attachment for Krsna,
Vasudeva, the son of Vasudeva. Prahlada Maharaja, therefore, is de-
scribed as a great mahatma. As the Lord Himself confirms in Bhagavad-
gita (7.19):

bahiinadm janmaném ante
Jfidnavan mam prapadyate
vasudevah sarvam iti
sa mahatmaé sudurlabhah

‘After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surren-
ders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is.
Such a great soul is very rare.” A great devotee of Krsna, the son of
Vasudeva, is a great soul very rarely to be found. Prahlada Maharaja’s
attachment for Krsna will be explained in the next verse. Krsna-graha-
grhitatmd. Prahlada Mahardaja’s heart was always filled with thoughts of
Krsna. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja is the ideal devotee in Krsna
consciousness.

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nyasta-kridanako balo
Jadavat tan-manastaya

krsna-graha-grhitatma
na veda jagad idrsam

nyasta —having given up; kridanakah—all sportive activities or ten-
dencies for childhood play; balah—a boy; jada-vat—as if dull, without
