Text 33] Prahlada, the Saintly Son of Hiranyakasipu 273

yasya deve para bhaktir
yatha deve tatha gurau

tasyaite kathita hy arthah
prakasante mahatmanah

“Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and

the spiritual n master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically
revealed.” (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23)

yam evaisa vrnute tena labhyas
tasyaisa dtma vivrnute taniim svam

“The Lord is obtained only by one whom He Himself chooses. To such a
person He manifests His own form.”’ (Mundaka Upanisad 3.2.3)

These are Vedic injunctions. One must take shelter of a self-realized
spiritual master, not a materially educated scholar or politician. One
must take shelter of a niskificana, a person engaged in devotional service
and free from material contamination. That is the way to return home,
back to Godhead.

TEXT 33

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ity uktvoparatam putrarm
hiranyakasipi: rusa

andhikrtatma svotsarngan
nirasyata mahi-tale

iti—thus; uktvd—speaking; uparatam—stopped; putram—the son;
hiranyakasipuh—Hiranyakasipu; rusd—with great anger; andhikrta-
atma—made blind to self-realization; sva-utsarigat—from his lap;
nirasyata—threw; mahi-tale—upon the ground.

TRANSLATION

After Prahlada Maharaja had spoken in this way and become
silent, Hiranyakasipu, blinded by anger, threw him off his lap and
onto the ground.
