Text 19] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 209
really happy; otherwise happiness is impossible. One might say that be-
coming advanced in spiritual life also involves tapasya, voluntary accep-
tance of some inconvenience. However, such inconvenience is not as
dangerous as material attempts to mitigate all miseries.
TEXT 19
AMA AMTyA AANA
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THA Tenfetahey eerHae-
aN fan carat ATI 112.81
balasya neha saranam pitarau nrsimha
nartasya cagadam udanvati majato nauh
taptasya tat-pratividhir ya ihdfjasestas
tavad vibho tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam
balasya—of a little child; na—not; iha—in this world; saranam—
shelter (protection); pitarau—the father and mother; nrsimha—O my
Lord Nrsirnhadeva; na—neither; drtasya—of a person suffering from
some disease; ca—also; agadam—medicine; udanvati—in the water of
the ocean; majjatah—of a person who is drowning; nauh—the boat;
taptasya—of a person suffering from a condition of material misery; tat-
pratividhih—the counteraction (invented for stopping the suffering of
material existence) ; yah—that which; iha—in this material world;
anjasé—very easily; istah—accepted (as a remedy); tévat—similarly;
vibho—O my Lord, O Supreme; tanu-bhrtam—of the living entities who
have accepted material bodies; tvat-upeksitandm—who are neglected by
You and not accepted by You.
TRANSLATION
My Lord Nrsirnhadeva, O Supreme, because of a bodily concep-

tion of life, embodied souls neglected and not cared for by You
cannot do anything for their betterment. Whatever remedies they
accept, although perhaps temporarily beneficial, are certainly im-
permanent. For example, a father and mother cannot protect their
