Text 41] Hiranyakasipu Terrorizes the Universe 207

TRANSLATION

Sometimes, upon seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Prahlada Maharaja would loudly call in full anxiety. He sometimes
lost his shyness in jubilation and began dancing in ecstasy, and
sometimes, being fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna, he felt one-
ness and imitated the pastimes of the Lord.

PURPORT

Prahlada Maharaja sometimes felt that the Lord was far away from
him and therefore called Him loudly. When he saw that the Lord was
before him, he was fully jubilant. Sometimes, thinking himself one with
the Supreme, he imitated the Lord’s pastimes, and in separation from the
Lord he would sometimes show symptoms of madness. These feelings of
a devotee would not be appreciated by impersonalists. One must go
further and further into spiritual understanding. The first realization is
impersonal Brahman, but one must go still further to realize Paramatma
and eventually the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped
by the transcendental feelings of a devotee in a relationship of santa,
dasya, sakhya, vatsalya or madhurya. Here the feelings of Prahlada
Maharaja were in the mellow of vdtsalya, filial love and affection. As a
child cries when left by his mother, when Prahlada Maharaja felt that the
Lord was away from him he began to cry (nadati). Again, a devotee like
Prahlada sometimes sees that the Lord is coming from a long distance to
pacify him, like a mother responding to a child, saying, ““My dear child,
do not cry. I am coming.” Then the devotee, without being ashamed due
to his surroundings and circumstances, begins to dance, thinking, “Here
is my Lord! My Lord is coming!” Thus the devotee, in full ecstasy, some-
times imitates the pastimes of the Lord, just as the cowherd boys used to
imitate the behavior of the jungle animals. However, he does not actually
become the Lord. Prahlada Maharaja achieved the spiritual ecstasies de-
scribed herein by his advancement in spiritual understanding.

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