Today I shall recite before you the prayers offered by Prahlada Maharaja to Nrsimhadeva. This Prahlada Maharaja was tortured by his father on account of his becoming a Krsna conscious boy. The only fault was that... (aside:) What is that? The door may be open. The Prahlada Maharaja was a boy, five years old, youngest son of his father. Very affectionate son. But one day the father took the little boy on his lap and asked the boy, "My dear child, what you have learned the best from your teachers? Will you kindly explain?"

The father asked the best thing the boy learned from his teachers, and the boy, five-years-old boy, replied, "My dear best of the demons." He never addressed his father, "My dear father," because his father was atheist number one, godless, and he was a great devotee of God. So when the father inquired, he straightly replied. He knew that his father was very powerful demon, but he was not afraid, although he was five-years-old boy. He plainly replied, "My dear the best of the demons,' sura-varya, asura varya. Asura means demons, and varya means the best, first-class demon. So "I think," tat sadhu manye-sadhu means honest, very good, very nice"that is very nice." What is that? Dehinam: "For the entities who have accepted this material body..." He is speaking universally. Not for himself or for his father, but he was speaking generally for everybody. Everybody. Anyone. Dehinam. Dehi means this body. We are different from this body. We have several times discussed this point. So in Sanskrit word there are two implications in the understanding of our existence. One is deha. Deha means this body. And dehi means the proprietor of this body. I am the proprietor of my body, you are the proprietor of your body. So Prahlada Maharaja says, "For all the proprietors of the body"that means for everyone who has accepted this material body, all living entities"that is the best thing." What is that? Sada samudvigna-dhiym. And anyone who has accepted this material body, his symptom is that he is full of anxieties. This is the disease. To get this body, material body, means to remain always full of anxieties. Either you become the first-class, I mean to say, executive head, President Johnson, or an ordinary man in the Bowery Streeteveryone is full of anxiety. Not only human society but also bird society, beast societyeveryone. Anyone who has got this material body, he's full of anxiety. But we want to get free from anxieties. That is our aspiration.

He is humbly presenting himself. This is the qualification of pure devotee. Although Prahlada Maharaja stands there, the first-class devotee... Because all other demigods, they are also devotees, they could not pacify the Lord, and they pushed Prahlada Maharaja, that "My dear boy, you do it." So in that meeting he was the first-class devotee, but he presents himself that "I am ugra-jateh. I am born of demoniac father." So when brahmadayah, demigods like Brahma, sura-ganah, and other demigods, munayah, great sages, and siddhah... Siddhah means those who have got many material perfections. There is a planet which is called Siddhaloka. In Siddhaloka the inhabitants of Siddhaloka, they can fly in the air without any machine. Just like in this planet we can fly in the space with the help of some machine, but in the Siddhaloka they can fly in this body. They have got eight kinds of siddhas, perfection, material perfection. So out of that, this perfection is called laghima. They can become so light that they can fly in the air. They are called Siddhas. Those Siddhas were also present. So Prahlada Maharaja said that "Here in this meeting the demigods are there, headed by Lord Brahma, and great sages are there, and the Siddhas are there, and they tried to pacify the Lord by prayers with very fine language." Sattvaika: very selected words. Just like anyone offers prayer to the Lord, they are all selected words. Therefore Lord's name is, another name is Uttama-loka. Uttama. Uttama-sloka means choicest words, "one who is worshiped by the choicest words." So they presented the choicest words, very learned scholars. I mean to say, grammatical, metaphorical, everything very nice. Sattvaikatana-gatayo vacasam pravahaih. And they presented their prayers just like flow of the water. They were very learned. So there was no impediment. They could say fluently, pravahaih.

Krsna says, the Lord says, that "Those who are miscreants, always trying to do harm to the society, to the country, to the people, to the other animals, other living creatures..." They are called duskrtina, miscreants. Miscreants. Na mam duskrtino mudhah. And fools. So miscreants, fools, and naradhamah. Naradhama means the lowest of the mankind. Naradhamah. And mayayapahrta-jnanah: and one whose knowledge is taken away by the illusory energy. Who are they? So-called educated. The so-called educated persons, they are very much proud of their university degree, but if you ask some of them, "What you are? Wherefrom you have come to this world, and where you are going next?" Oh, they will say, "What is this nonsense? I am... I do not know wherefrom I have come, where I am going. I have no concern with that. I am concerned with the present life. That's all." But actually, we are not this present life. It is only a spot in our journey. (end)