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     17:30  Prahlada Maharaja is beginning his prayer: My dear Lord, You pacify Yourself. Now my father is killed. That business is finished. Now, these people, they will never create any trouble, so You become pacified diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     17:28  Prahlada Maharaja is a typical Vaisnava. He prays not for himself but for all living entities - the gentle, the envious and the mischievous. He always thought of the welfare of mischievous persons like his father, Hiranyakasipu diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     17:27  Prahlada Maharaja fixed his mind and sight upon Lord Nrsimhadeva with full attention in complete trance. With a fixed mind, he began to offer prayers in love with a faltering voice diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     17:23  Prahlada Maharaja did not ask for anything for himself; rather, he prayed for the Lord to excuse his demoniac father. This is the attitude of a Vaisnava, who always thinks of the welfare of the entire universe diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     17:20  Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     17:18  Prahlada Maharaja also (like Caitanya Mahaprabhu) prayed to Lord Nrsimhadeva that he might be engaged as the servant of the Lord's servant. This is the prescribed method of devotional service diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     17:16  Prahlada Maharaja, while praying to Lord Nrsimha, said, O my Lord, I am very much afraid of the materialistic way of life, and I am not the least afraid of Your present ghastly ferocious feature as Nrsimhadeva diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     17:12  Prahlada Maharaja, in the following prayer (SB 7.9.14), requests the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) to give up His anger‎‎ 2 changes history −22 [Rahul‎ (2×)]
     
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     17:04  Prahlada Maharaja, in his prayers, has described the transcendental qualities of the Lord and has also described how the various abodes of the demigods and demons, regardless of how materially opulent, are destroyed by the mere direction of the Lord diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     17:01  Prahlada Maharaja, his father becomes a demon, and he has to fight Nrsimha. That means it is the karma of a previous life, and he's praying. Or is it understood that he'll get the protection? So why this prayer? diffhist +32 Rahul talk contribs
     16:53  Prahlada Maharaja, a pure Vaisnava, prays to the Lord not only for himself but for all other suffering living entities diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     16:41  Prahlada Maharaja, although born of a demonic father, he was completely pure. He was completely on the transcendental stage. Therefore he could offer prayers to the Lord; others cannot diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     16:34  Prahlada, while instructing his childhood friends at school, stated that hearing of the Lord, chanting, remembering, worshiping, praying, serving, making friends with Krsna, and offering everything to Him constituted the highest spiritual knowledge diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     16:24  One who always remembers your (Prahlada) activities and My (Nrsimhadeva) activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course of time, from the reactions of material activities diffhist −10 Rahul talk contribs
     16:15  Materialists always think of sense gratification, but Prahlada Maharaja prays that the Lord's mercy will change their minds and they will stop thinking of sense gratification. If they think of Krsna always, everything will be all right diffhist −32 Rahul talk contribs
     16:04  Maharaj Prahlada offers the following prayers to the Lord, "My dear Lord Nrsimha, if I can be elevated to the position of Your servant, then it will be possible for me to hear about Your activities" diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     15:59  I (Prahlada Maharaja) drift from one point to another birth after birth, and I pray to You (Lord Nrisimha) therefore to give me a shelter at Your lotus feet diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     15:54  Is that (if you are not worried, that means you are animal. You are not human being.) like Prahlada Maharaja's prayer when he saw Lord Nrsimha-deva and he said, "I am not afraid of Your ferocious form, but I am afraid of this material world of samsara" diffhist +32 Rahul talk contribs
     15:19  In the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya it is stated that Prahlada Maharaj, a great devotee of the Lord, prayed to Nrsimhadeva (the half-lion half-man incarnation) diffhist −21 Rahul talk contribs
     15:15  In his prayer to the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja said that he was not personally interested in liberation from this material world; rather, he did not wish to be liberated from this material condition until all fallen souls were delivered diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     15:06  He (Prahlada Maharaja) prays to the Lord that all of us fallen souls in this material world may, by the grace of the Lord, engage in the service of His servant and thus be delivered diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     15:02  He (Prahlada Maharaja) did not ask any benediction that he might have asked, but he prayed that his atheistic father might be liberated. He never cursed any of the persons who engaged in torturing him at the instigation of his father‎‎ 2 changes history −23 [Rahul‎ (2×)]
     
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     14:59  From the prayers of Prahlada Maharaja, we understand that He (Lord Visnu) appears garbed as a devotee in Kali-yuga. Lord Caitanya is that devotee diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     14:55  Because he (Prahlada Maharaja) was engaged in service, he felt transcendentally situated, and naturally his mind and attention became saturated in transcendence. In that condition, he began to offer his prayers diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     14:53  Any devotee aspiring to be free of material desires should offer his respectful prayers to Nrsimhadeva as Prahlada Maharaja did in this verse - SB 5.18.8 diffhist −22 Rahul talk contribs
     14:47  Any devotee aspiring to be free of material desires should offer his respectful prayers to Nrsimha-deva as Prahlada Maharaja did in this verse diffhist 0 Rahul talk contribs
     14:44  Although Prahlada Maharaja was a pure, exalted Vaisnava, he thought himself most unqualified to offer prayers to the Supreme Lord. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (CC Madhya 17.186). Every pure Vaisnava should think like this diffhist −32 Rahul talk contribs
     14:39  After killing the demon Hiranyakasipu, the Lord Nrisinghadeva was pacified by Prahlad Maharaj, who offered prayers in hymns which are very instructive diffhist +32 Rahul talk contribs
     14:37  Although he (Prahlada Maharaja) did not ask anything for his personal self, but he asked the Lord, prayed that, "One thing I request." - What is that diffhist −32 Rahul talk contribs
     12:15  Without the living entity, a material body cannot automatically take shape or develop diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:14  Why we are getting different bodies? diffhist +43 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:14  When we think that we are these material bodies and that we have possessions to go with them, then we think that we are poor or rich, but one who is liberated from the material conception of life has nothing to do with possessions or lack of possessions diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:14  When Prthu Maharaja and his wife, Arci, abandoned their material bodies in the material fire, they immediately developed their spiritual bodies and entered into spiritual airplanes, which could penetrate the material elements and reach the spiritual sky diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:13  When consciousness is displayed through the medium of the subtle and gross material bodies, it is covered, but when the consciousness is purified, in Krsna consciousness, one becomes free from the entanglement of repeated birth and death diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:13  When a sensible man ceases to see different identities, which are due to different material bodies, he attains to the Brahman conception. Thus he sees that beings are expanded everywhere. BG 13.31 - 1972 diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:02  We have often heard of Krsna's rasa-lila with the cowherd girls in Vrndavana. That is not like ordinary exchanges that take place between these material bodies. Rather it is an exchange of feelings through spiritual bodies diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:02  We all have to suffer or enjoy the reactions of our work, be they good or bad. As long as we have to suffer or enjoy these reactions, we are bound to these material bodies diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:01  Voidist philosophers think that under certain material conditions the symptoms of life occur in the material body, but the fact is that the material body cannot act on its own diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:01  Unfortunately, we are now prisoners in this material world, and we presently have material bodies. These bodies are changing. Sometimes they are young and sometimes old diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:01  Under these circumstances (material activities), it is to be supposed that by thinking, feeling and willing, we are creating a series of future material bodies diffhist +10 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:40  Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti: he (one who is free from the bondage of both the gross and subtle material bodies and remains a pure soul) goes back home, back to Godhead. Thus it appears that Saubhari Muni attained that perfect stage diffhist −29 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:39  Those who want to live forever without changing their material bodies should not waste valuable time with topics other than those relating to Lord Krsna and His devotees diffhist +4 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:37  Those known as the sahajiyas foolishly think that their material bodies are transcendental. Because of this, they are always bereft of the association of pure devotees, and thus they cannot behave like Vaisnavas diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:37  This very significant question (how associates of the Personality of Godhead were cursed to descend in material bodies like ordinary persons) would be difficult for an ordinary person to answer, but Narada Muni, being an authority, could answer it diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:36  This material body, although temporary, has a special use. The living entity is given a chance from the beginning of the creation to evolve different kinds of material bodies according to the reserve desires he has accumulated from time immemorial diffhist +38 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:34  This material body doesn't endure eternally, everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, changes along with the change of body. This is called samsara or repetition of birth, death, old age & disease diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:34  This material body continues as long as one is not detached from the false conception of lording it over material nature diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:03  Lord Brahma continued: Those two principal doorkeepers (Jaya and Vijaya) of the Personality of Godhead have now entered the womb of Diti, the powerful semen of Kasyapa Muni having covered them diffhist +5 Deepali talk contribs