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श्रीप्रह्लाद उवाच
तत्साधु मन्ये ऽसुरवर्य देहिनां सदा समुद्विग्नधियामसद्ग्रहात् ।
हित्वात्मपातं गृहमन्धकूपं वनं गतो यद्धरिमाश्रयेत ॥ ५ ॥
 
sri-prahlada uvaca
tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam
sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat
hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam
vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta
sri-prahladah uvaca-Prahlada Maharaja replied; tat-that; sadhu-very good, or the best part of life; manye-I think; asura-varya-O King of the asuras; dehinam-of persons who have accepted the material body; sada-always; samudvigna-full of anxieties; dhiyam-whose intelligence; asat-grahat-because of accepting the temporary body or bodily relations as real (thinking "I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine"); hitva-giving up; atma-patam-the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped; grham-the bodily concept of life, or household life; andha-kupam-which is nothing but a blind well (where there is no water but one nonetheless searches for water); vanam-to the forest; gatah-going; yat-which; harim-the Supreme Personality of Godhead; asrayeta-may take shelter of.