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power to rule you, and therefore you are an obstinate fool. Today I
shall send you to the place of Yamaraja.
PURPORT

Hiranyakasipu condemned his Vaisnava son Prahlada for being
durvinita—ungentle, uncivilized, or impudent. Srila Visvanatha
Cakravarti Thakura, however, has derived a meaning from this word
durvinita by the mercy of the goddess of learning, Sarasvati. He says that
duh refers to this material world. This is confirmed by Lord Krsna in His
instruction in Bhagavad-gita that this material world is dukkhdlayam,
full of material conditions. Vi means visesa, “‘specifically,” and nita
means “brought in.” By the mercy of the Supreme Lord, Prahlada
Maharaja was especially brought to this material world to teach people
how to get out of the material condition. Lord Krsna says, yada yada hi
dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata. When the entire population, or part
of it, becomes forgetful of its own duty, Krsna comes. When Krsna is not
present the devotee is present, but the mission is the same: to free the
poor conditioned souls from the clutches of the mayd that chastises them.

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura further explains that the word
mand4étman means manda—very bad or very slow in spiritual realiza-
tion. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.10), mandaéh sumanda-
matayo manda-bhagyd. Prahlada Maharaja is the guide of all the
mandas, or bad living entities who are under the influence of maya. He
is the benefactor even of the slow and bad living entities in this material
world. Kula-bheda-karddhama: by his actions, Prahlada Maharaja made
great personalities who established big, big families seem insignificant.
Everyone is interested in his own family and in making his dynasty
famous, but Prahlada Maharaja was so liberal that he made no distinction
between one living entity and another. Therefore he was greater than the
great prajdpatis who established their dynasties. The word stabdham
means obstinate. A devotee does not care for the instructions of the
asuras. When they give instructions, he remains silent. A devotee cares
about the instructions of Krsna, not those of demons or nondevotees. He
does not give any respect to a demon, even though the demon be his
father. Mac-chdsanodurttam: Prahlada Maharaja was disobedient to the
orders of his demoniac father. Yama-ksayam: every conditioned soul is
under the control of Yamaraja, but HiranyakaSipu said that he considered
