Text 22] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 215

bhitani yanti bhitejya
yanti mad-yajino ‘pi mam

‘Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods;
those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings;
those who worship ancestors go to the ancestors; and those who worship
Me will live with Me.” The real purpose of the Vedas is to direct one back
home, back to Godhead, but the living entity, not knowing the real goal
of his life, wants to go sometimes here and sometimes there and do some-
times this and sometimes that. In this way he wanders throughout the
entire universe, imprisoned in various species and thus engaging in
various activities for which he must suffer the reactions. Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu therefore says:

brahmdnda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva
guru-krsna-prasdde paya bhakti-lata-bija
(Cc. Madhya 19.151)

The fallen, conditioned living entity, trapped by the external energy,
loiters in the material world, but if by good fortune he meets a bona fide
representative of the Lord who gives him the seed of devotional service,
and if he takes advantage of such a guru, or representative of God, he
receives the bhakti-lata-bija, the seed of devotional service. If he prop-
erly cultivates Krsna consciousness, he is then gradually elevated to the
spiritual world. The ultimate conclusion is that one must surrender to the
principles of bhakti-yoga, for then one will gradually attain liberation.
No other method of liberation from the material struggle is at all possi-

ble.
TEXT 22

a fe facafatrarra: ana
Flat 3

ae figeanta vert
fariterrraavan frat srry RR

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sa tvar hi nitya-vijitatma-gunah sva-dhamna
kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih
