Text 18] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 207
happy, blissful life, one must become Krsna conscious and constantly
engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. That is the real
remedy. The entire world is under the illusion that people will be happy
by advancing in materialistic measures to counteract the miseries of con-
ditional life, but this attempt will never be successful. Humanity must be
trained to engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. That is
the purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement. There can be no hap-
piness in changing one’s material conditions, for everywhere there is
trouble and misery.
TEXT 18
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AA MAPATTV TMT
atin A waMewaaR: (lll
so *ham priyasya suhrdah paradevataya
lila-kathas tava nrsimha virinca-gitah
anyas titarmy anugrnan guna-vipramukto
durgani te pada-yugalaya-hamsa-sangah
sah—that; aham—I (Prahlada Maharaja); priyasya—of the dear-
most; suhrdah—well-wisher; paradevatayah—of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead; lila-kathah—narrations of the pastimes; tava—
Your; nrsinha—O my Lord Nrsirmhadeva; virifica-gitah—given by Lord
Brahma by the disciplic succession; afijah—easily; titarmi—I shall
cross; anugrnan—constantly describing; guna—by the modes of ma-
terial nature; vipramuktah—specifically being uncontaminated;
durgani—all miserable conditions of life; te—of You; pada-yuga-
alaya—fully absorbed in meditation on the lotus feet; hamsa-sarigah —
having the association of the hamsas, or liberated persons (who have no
connection with material activities).
TRANSLATION
O my Lord Nrsirhhadeva, by engaging in Your transcendental
loving service in the association of devotees who are liberated
