Text 20] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 211

(tvad-upeksitanam). If we keep displeasing our supreme father, we shall
never be happy within this material world, in either the upper or lower
planetary systems.

TEXT 20

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yasmin yato yarhi yena ca yasya yasmad
yasmai yatha yad uta yas tv aparah paro va

bhavah karoti vikaroti prthak svabhavah
saficoditas tad akhilarh bhavatah svaripam

yasmin—in any condition of life; yatah—because of anything;
yarhi—at any time (past, present or future); yena—by something; ca—
also; yasya—in relationship with anyone; yasmat—from any causal
representative; yasmai—unto anyone (without discrimination in regard
to place, person or time); yatha—in any manner; yat—whatever it may
be; uta—certainly; yah—anyone who; tu—but; aparah—the other;
parah—the supreme; vd—or; bhavah—being; karoti—does; vikaroti—
changes; prthak—separate; svabhavah—nature (under the influence of
different modes of material nature); saricoditah—being influenced;
tat—that; akhilam—all; bhavatah—of Your Lordship; svaripam—
emanated from Your different energies.

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, everyone in this material world is under the
modes of material nature, being influenced by goodness, passion
and ignorance. Everyone—from the greatest personality, Lord
Brahma, down to the small ant—works under the influence of
these modes. Therefore everyone in this material world is in-
fluenced by Your energy. The cause for which they work, the place
where they work, the time when they work, the matter due to
which they work, the goal of life they have considered final, and
