Text 6] Prahlada, the Saintly Son of Hiranyakasipu 223

the platform of worshiping Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Otherwise, if one remains in the bodily conception, one must rot within
this material world, and his life will be a failure. Society must have divi-
sions of brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and Sddra, and for spiritual ad-
vancement one must gradually develop as a brahmacari, grhastha,
vanaprastha and sannydsi. Prahlada Maharaja recommended that his
father accept vanaprastha life because as a grhastha he was becoming in-
creasingly demoniac due to bodily attachment. Prahlada recommended to
his father that accepting vanaprastha life would be better than going
deeper and deeper into grham andha-kipam, the blind well of life as a
grhastha. In our Krsna consciousness movement we therefore invite all
the elderly persons of the world to come to Vrndavana and stay there in
retired life, making advancement in spiritual consciousness, Krsna
consciousness.

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Sri-ndrada uvdaca
Srutva putra-giro daityah
para-paksa-samahitah
jahdsa buddhir balanarn
bhidyate para-buddhibhih

Sri-néradah uvaca—Narada Muni said; Srutvd—hearing; putra-
girah—the instructive words of his son; daityah—Hiranyakasipu; para-
paksa—on the side of the enemy; samahitah—full of faith; jahasa—
laughed; buddhih—the intelligence; balandm—of small boys; bhid-
yate—is polluted; para-buddhibhih—by instructions from the enemy’s
camp.

TRANSLATION
Narada Muni continued: When Prahlada Maharaja spoke about

the path of self-realization in devotional service, thus being
