Text 12] Prahlada, the Saintly Son of HiranyakaSipu 231

God. The servant cannot be equal to the master. According to the
Vaisnava philosophy, the master is one, and the servants are also one,
but the distinction between the master and servant must continue even
in the liberated stage. In the conditioned stage we think that some living
beings are our friends whereas others are enemies, and thus we are in
duality. In the liberated stage, however, the conception is that God is the
master and that all living entities, being servants of God, are one.

TEXT 12
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sa yadanuvratah purmsam
pasu-buddhir vibhidyate

anya esa tathanyo *ham
iti bheda-gatasati

sah—that Supreme Personality of Godhead; yada—when;
anuvratah—favorable or pleased; purisam—of the conditioned souls;
pasu-buddhih—the animalistic conception of life (“I am the Supreme,
and everyone is God”); vibhidyate—is destroyed; anyah—another;
esah—this; tatha—as well as; anyah—another; aham—I; iti—thus;
bheda—distinction; gata—having; asati—which is disastrous.

TRANSLATION

When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the
living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a
pandita and does not make distinctions between enemies, friends
and himself. Intelligently, he then thinks, ‘“‘Every one of us is an
eternal servant of God, and therefore we are not different from
one another.”

PURPORT

When Prahlada Maharaja’s teachers and demoniac father asked him
how his intelligence had been polluted, Prahlada Maharaja said, ‘“‘As far
as I am concerned, my intelligence has not been polluted. Rather, by the
