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     06:14  So we should take the path of devotional service, following Prahlada Maharaja, and his prayers, his instructions are so valuable diffhist −10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja was tortured by his father in so many ways, yet after the death of his father he prayed for his father's liberation by the Supreme Personality of Godhead diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja was a pure devotee. Therefore he does not make any business with God that, "I offer You my prayer to take something from You." We shall discuss these prayers of Prahlada Maharaja one after another diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja then worshiped and offered prayers to all the demigods, such as Brahma, Siva and the Prajapatis, who are all parts of the Lord diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays to the Personality of Godhead that he may avoid the association of nondevotees attached to the materialistic way of life. If he must be attached to someone, he prays to be attached only to a devotee diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that Lord Nrsimhadeva place him in touch with a pure devotee and servant instead of awarding him material opulence. Every intelligent man within this material world must follow Prahlada Maharaja diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that everyone's mind may become gentle by being fixed at the lotus feet of Krsna - bhajatad adhoksaje diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that all envious persons may undergo a change of heart and think of the welfare of others diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays, sivam mitho dhiya. In material activities, everyone is envious of others, but in Krsna consciousness, no one is envious of anyone else; everyone thinks of the welfare of others diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prayed to the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) that he might continue to engage in the service of his spiritual master, Narada Muni diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed to the Lord (Nrsimhadeva), "But for Your Lordship, no one can save me." Prahlada Maharaja has also explained that a child's protectors, his parents, cannot save the child from the onslaught of birth and death diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed: My Lord Nrsimha-deva, O Supreme, because of a bodily conception of life, embodied souls neglected and not cared for by You cannot do anything for their betterment diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead? diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja offered this prayer to the Lord for the sake of his father. As a Vaisnava son, despite all the inconveniences imposed upon him by his father, he could not forget his father's affection diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja is submitting that, "I do not require to be highly elevated to offer my prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Nobody requires any material acquisition to approach God. We have been discussing this point for the last few days diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  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 +9 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:07  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja, in the following prayer (SB 7.9.14), requests the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) to give up His anger diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Prahlada Maharaja, a pure Vaisnava, prays to the Lord not only for himself but for all other suffering living entities diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  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 +11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 diffhist +11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  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 +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "You are the supreme friend, the supreme worshipable Deity. Your pastimes are transcendental, and simply by hearing of them one can counteract all his sinful activities" diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "with it (happiness from devotional service) one can have all the other perfections of religiousness, economic development, sense gratification and even the attainment of liberation from material existence" diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "My dear Lord of the universe, I am feeling transcendental pleasure in Your presence and have become merged in the ocean of happiness" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "My dear Lord, I repeatedly pray unto Your lotus feet that I may simply be stronger in devotional service" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "I simply pray that my Krsna consciousness may be more strong and steady, because happiness derived out of Krsna consciousness and devotional service is so powerful" diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:55  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "I shall not care for all those sinful activities because simply by hearing about Your pastimes I shall get out of all the contamination of material attachment" diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:55  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "I now consider the happiness of brahmananda to be no more than the water in the impression left by a cow's hoof in the earth, compared to this ocean of bliss" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:50  When friends would request, "My dear Prahlada, just play. This is tiffin hour," so he said - No, no, no, no. My dear friends, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha. Immediately. We are now young boys. This is the time to learn diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:50  Whenever he (Prahlada Maharaja) found an opportunity, when the teacher was out of the classroom, he used to say - My dear friends, let's chant Hare Krsna; this is the time to begin Krsna consciousness diffhist +12 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:50  The Supreme Lord is the dearmost object of all living entities. Prahlada Maharaja therefore advised his class friends, the sons of the demons, to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead again diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs