Text 5] Prahlada, the Saintly Son of Hiranyakasipu 221
fran 389 gennred
wi Tat Tafarraa 14 Il
$ri-prahlada uvdaca
tat sadhu manye ’sura-varya dehinam
sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat
hitvétma-patam grham andha-kipam
vanam gato yad dharim 4srayeta
$ri-prahlédah uvaca—Prahlada Maharaja replied; tat —that; sadhu—
very good, or the best part of life; manye—I think; asura-varya—O
King of the asuras; dehinam—of persons who have accepted the ma-
terial body; sadd—always; samudvigna—full of anxieties; dhiyam—
whose intelligence; asat-grahadt—because of accepting the temporary
body or bodily relations as real (thinking ‘I am this body, and every-
thing belonging to this body is mine”); hitud—giving up; dtma-
patam—the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped;
grham—the bodily concept of life, or household life; andha-kijpam—
which is nothing but a blind well (where there is no water but one none-
theless searches for water); vanam—to the forest; gatah—going; yat—
which; harim—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; asrayeta—may
take shelter of.
TRANSLATION
Prahlada Maharaja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the
demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any per-
son who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household
life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in
a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should
give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one
should go to Vrndavana, where only Krsna consciousness is pre-
valent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.
PURPORT
Hiranyakasipu thought that Prahlada, being nothing but a small boy
with no actual experience, might reply with something pleasing but
