298 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 10
bhogena punyam kusalena papam
kalevaram kala-javena hitva
kirtim visuddham sura-loka-gitam
vitaya mam esyasi mukta-bandhah

bhogena—by feelings of material happiness; punyam—pious ac-
tivities or their results; kusalena—by acting piously (devotional service
is the best of all pious activities); paépam—all kinds of reactions to im-
pious activities; kalevaram—the material body; kdla-javena—by the
most powerful time factor; hituva—giving up; kirtim—reputation;
visuddham—transcendental or fully purified; sura-loka-gitam—praised
even in the heavenly planets; vitaya—spreading all through the uni-
verse; mam—unto Me; esyasi—you will come back; mukta-bandhah —
being liberated from all bondage.

TRANSLATION

My dear Prahlada, while you are in this material world you will
exhaust all the reactions of pious activity by feeling happiness, and
by acting piously you will neutralize impious activity. Because of
the powerful time factor, you will give up your body, but the
glories of your activities will be sung in the upper planetary
systems, and being fully freed from all bondage, you will return
home, back to Godhead.

PURPORT

Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says: evar prahladasyarnsena
sddhana-siddhatvam nitya-siddhatvarh ca ndradddivaj jreyam. There
are two classes of devotees—the s@dhana-siddha and the nitya-siddha.
Prahlada Maharaja is a mixed siddha; that is, he is perfect partly because
of executing devotional service and partly because of eternal perfection.
Thus he is compared to such devotees as Narada. Formerly, Narada Muni
was the son of a maidservant, and therefore in his next birth he attained
perfection (sadhana-siddhi) because of having executed devotional ser-
vice. Yet he is also a nitya-siddha because he never forgets the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.

The word kusalena is very important. One should live in the material
world very expertly. The material world is known as the world of duality
