SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

216 Srnnad-Bhagavabun (Canto 7, Ch. 5teachers. As usual, Prahlada Maharaja began praising the nine processesof devotional service, such as srava1Jllm and kirtanam. Thus the King ofthe demons, Hirai).yakasipu, being extremely angry, chastised theteachers, $aQ.a and Amarka, for having wrongly trained PrahladaMaharaja. The so-called teachers informed the King that PrahladaMaharaja was automatically a devotee and did not listen to their instructions.When they proved themselves innocent, Hira.Q.yakasipu inquiredfrom Prahlada where he had learned vJJu-bhakti. Prahlada Maharajareplied that those who are attached to family life do not develop Kr.Q.aconsciousness, either personally or collectively. Instead, they suffer repeatedbirth and death in this material world and continue simply chewingthe chewed. Prahlada explained that the duty of every man is to takeshelter of a pure devotee and thus become eligible to understand Kr.Q.aconsciOusness.Enraged at this answer, Hirai).yakasipu threw Prahlada Maharaja fromhis lap. Since Prahlada was so treacherous that he had become a devoteeof Vi.Q.u, who had killed his uncle Hirai).yaka, Hira.Q.yakasipu asked hisassistants to kill him. The assistants of Hira.Q.yakasipu struck Prahladawith sharp weapons, threw him under the feet of elephants, subjectedhim to hellish conditions, threw him from the peak of a mountain andtried to kill him in thousands of other ways, but they were unsuccessful.Hira.Q.yakasipu therefore became increasingly afraid of his son PrahladaMaharaja and arrested him. The sons of Hirai).yakasipu's spiritualmaster, Sukraciirya, began teaching Prahlada in their own way, butPrahlada Maharaja did not accept their instructions. While the teacherswere absent from the classroom, Prahlada Maharaja began to preachKr.Q.a consciousness in the school, and by his instructions all his classfriends, the sons of the demons, became devotees like him.TEXT 1'J/AT{q t{lijlttlf•li411 tQ: : t!{: Itto1qq1f ijffl \iftz(t II II