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     06:15  While offering prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada Maharaja said: balasya neha saranam pitarau nrsimha, nartasya cagadam udanvati majjato nauh‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja was offered a benediction by Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada rejected all kinds of material benedictions, but he prayed to become the servant of the servants of the Lord‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja offered prayers to Krsna as Nrsimha-deva, he said, - My dear Lord, one should not think that because a child has a father and mother he has full protection‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja chants om namo bhagavate narasimhaya, he prays for a benediction from the Lord, but because he is also an exalted Vaisnava, he wants nothing for his personal sense gratification‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God." Thus Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  We should take the path of devotional service, following Prahlada Maharaja, and his prayers, his instructions are so valuable that even simply by reciting this Prahlada Maharaja's stotra, This prayer of Prahlada Maharaja is very, very important‎ diffhist −10‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  This is confirmed in the prayers of Prahlada Maharaja: in Kali-yuga He does not directly appear, but He appears as a devotee‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  This (CC Madhya 22.76) was spoken by Prahlada Maharaja and his followers, who were offering prayers to Nrsimhadeva - Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.18.12‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The SP of Godhead (Nrsimhadeva) said in effect, "I fulfill the desires of everyone. Since you (Prahlada Maharaja) are My devotee, whatever you want for yourself will naturally be given, but if you pray for anyone else, that prayer also will be fulfilled"‎ diffhist +10‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The great saint Narada said: Thus Lord Nrsimhadeva was pacified by the devotee Prahlada Maharaja with prayers offered from the transcendental platform. The Lord gave up His anger‎ diffhist +32‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The energy in which the Lord's all-pervasiveness is not realized is called material. Otherwise, everything is spiritual. Therefore Prahlada prays, ekas tvam eva jagad etam: "You are everything"‎ diffhist +10‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The devotee, on the positive side, wants to possess something, and this is very nicely described by Prahlada , who says, "If I must take some benediction from You (Nrsimhadeva), I pray that within the core of my heart there may be no material desires"‎ diffhist +10‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  Srimad-Bhagavatam and bhagavata-dharma are meant for persons who are completely free of envy (parama-nirmatsaranam). Therefore Prahlada Maharaja prays in this verse (SB 5.18.9), khalah prasidatam: "May all the envious persons be pacified"‎ diffhist +10‎ ManiGopal talk contribs
     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
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