Text 14] Prahlada, the Best Among Exalted Devotees 299
because one sometimes has to act impiously and sometimes has to act
piously. Although one does not want to act impiously, the world is so
fashioned that there is always danger (padam padam yad vipadam).
Thus even when performing devotional service a devotee has to create
many enemies. Prahlada Maharaja himself had experience of this, for
even his father became his enemy. A devotee should expertly manage to
think always of the Supreme Lord so that the reactions of suffering can-
not touch him. This is the expert management of pdpa-punya—pious
and impious activities. An exalted devotee like Prahlada Maharaja is
Jivan-mukta; he is liberated even in this very life in the material body.
TEXT 14
a oaq waar cea states az: |
eat a AEF ATH HIS GATT MEHTA? BI
ya etat kirtayen mahyam
tvaya gitam idam narah
tvdm ca mam ca smaran kale
karma-bandhat pramucyate

yah—anyone who; etat—this activity; kirtayet—chants; mahyam—
unto Me; tvaya —by you; gitam—prayers offered; idam—this; narah—
human being; tud@m—you; ca—as well as; mam ca—Me also; smaran—
remembering; kdle—in due course of time; karma-bandhat—from the
bondage of material activities; pramucyate—becomes free.

TRANSLATION

One who always remembers your activities and My activities also,
and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due
course of time, from the reactions of material activities.

PURPORT

Here it is stated that anyone who chants and hears about the activities
of Prahlada Maharaja and, in relationship with Prahlada’s activities, the
activities of Nrsitnhadeva, gradually becomes free from all the bondage
of fruitive activities. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (2.15, 2.56):
