Text 17] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 205

result of my activities, and therefore | am very much afraid of my
condition of life within this material world. When will that
moment come when You will call me to the shelter of Your lotus
feet, which are the ultimate goal for liberation from conditional
life?

PURPORT

Being in the material world is certainly miserable, but certainly when
one is put into the association of asuras, or atheistic men, it is intolerably
so. One may ask why the living entity is put into the material world. In-
deed, sometimes foolish people deride the Lord for having put them
here. Actually, everyone is put into conditional life according to his
karma. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja, representing all the other condi-
tioned souls, admits that he was put into life among the asuras because of
the results of his karma. The Lord is known as krpana-vatsala because
He is extremely kind to the conditioned souls. As stated in Bhagavad-
gitd, therefore, the Lord appears whenever there are discrepancies in the
execution of religious principles (yada yada hi dharmasya glanir
bhavati bharata .. . tadétmanam srjamy aham). The Lord is extremely
anxious to deliver the conditioned souls, and therefore He instructs all of
us to return home, back to Godhead (sarva-dharman parityajya mam
ekam Saranam vraja). Thus Prahlada Maharaja expected that the Lord,
by His kindness, would call him again to the shelter of His lotus feet. In
other words, everyone should be eager to return home, back to Godhead,
taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord and thus being fully trained in
Krsna consciousness.

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yasmat priyapriya-viyoga-samyoga-janma-
Sokagnina sakala-yonisu dahyamanah

duhkhausadham tad api duhkham atad-dhiyaham
bhiiman bhramémi vada me tava dasya-yogam
