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Sadhu's business is to become very tolerant. Because everyone becomes enemy. If you become a devotee, everyone will become enemy, because they're asuras. Asuram bhavam asritah. Even the father. Hiranyakasipu is the father of Prahlada Maharaja. The boy, five-years-old boy. What is his fault? He's chanting Hare Krsna. And his father became enemy. Up to which, what strength? Now, he was prepared to kill. He was insisting the boy that "Why you are chanting Hare Krsna? Why you are speaking of a separate God? I am God." That is the asuri. Those rascals who claim to become God Himself, they are demons, Hiranyakasipu. So Prahlada Maharaja will not accept. Prahlada Maharaja, even the father insisting that "I am God. Why you are talking of any other God? I am God," and Prahlada Maharaja will not accept that. He will accept the father as asura. Sometimes it was quarrel between father and son. Sometimes the father would call, "My dear Prahlada, all right, let me know what you have learned, the best thing, from your teachers." (More...) Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/bg/10/32 Previous: [none] Next: [none]
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