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teachers. As usual, Prahlada Maharaja began praising the nine processes
of devotional service, such as Sravanam and kirtanam. Thus the King of
the demons, Hiranyakasipu, being extremely angry, chastised the
teachers, Sanda and Amarka, for having wrongly trained Prahlada
Maharaja. The so-called teachers informed the King that Prahlada
Maharaja was automatically a devotee and did not listen to their instruc-
tions. When they proved themselves innocent, Hiranyakasipu inquired
from Prahlada where he had learned visnu-bhakti. Prahlada Maharaja
replied that those who are attached to family life do not develop Krsna
consciousness, either personally or collectively. Instead, they suffer re-
peated birth and death in this material world and continue simply chew-
ing the chewed. Prahlada explained that the duty of every man is to take
shelter of a pure devotee and thus become eligible to understand Krsna
consciousness.

Enraged at this answer, Hiranyakasipu threw Prahlada Maharaja from
his lap. Since Prahlada was so treacherous that he had become a devotee
of Visnu, who had killed his uncle Hiranyaksa, Hiranyakasipu asked his
assistants to kill him. The assistants of Hiranyakasipu struck Prahlada
with sharp weapons, threw him under the feet of elephants, subjected
him to hellish conditions, threw him from the peak of a mountain and
tried to kill him in thousands of other ways, but they were unsuccessful.
Hiranyakasipu therefore became increasingly afraid of his son Prahlada
Maharaja and arrested him. The sons of Hiranyakasipu’s spiritual
master, Sukracdrya, began teaching Prahlada in their own way, but
Prahlada Maharaja did not accept their instructions. While the teachers
were absent from the classroom, Prahlada Maharaja began to preach
Krsna consciousness in the school, and by his instructions all his class
friends, the sons of the demons, became devotees like him.

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