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Chapter 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

 

Chapter 6: Prahlâda Instructs His Asura Schoolmates

(1)  Srî Prahlâda said: 'From ones childhood on should a person of intelligence practice the dharma of devotional service unto the Lord [as described in 7.5.23-24]; to be born in this human life is a temporary thing rarely achieved that is suffused with meaning.

(19) It is truly no great endeavor to satisfy the Infallible One, o asura sons, because in this world of all beings so close to the soul each and every respect is already established [compare B.G. 14: 3-4].

Chapter 7: What Prahlâda Learned in the Womb

(7) The Deva-rishi who happened to arrive there at the spot saw how she on the road in great fear crying like a kukari [an osprey] was led away.

Chapter 8: Lord Nrsimhadeva Slays the King of the Demons

(28) With him moving fast as a hawk with his moonspotted shield and sword maneuvering up and down not to offer any opportunity, made the Lord a very shrill, loud sound of laughter that was so frightening that he, with his eyes closed, was captured by the Greatest of all Speed.

(30) From His great anger one could hardly bear the sight of how with most fearful eyes, a wide open mouth the edges of which He licked with His tongue and manes and a face reddish smeared with traces of blood, he had the intestines for a garland like a lion that just had killed an elephant.

Chapter 9: Prahlâda Propitiates Lord Nrsimhadeva with Prayers

(4) 'So be it' he said and slowly, o King, got the great devotee, although he was only a small boy, step by step near Him and prostrated he himself offering prayers with folded hands.

(5) With him, such a little boy, fallen at His lotusfeet was the godhead mercifully greatly moved and with the raising of His lotushand placed on his head, He dispelled the fear from all minds about the snake of time [to its four physical necessities of âhâra, nidrâ, bhaya and maithuna; eating, sleeping, fearing or defending and mating].

Chapter 10: About Prahlâda, the Best Among the Exalted Devotees and the Fall of Tripura

(24) Srî Nârada said: 'Prahlâda as was commissioned by the Supreme Lord performed all the necessary functions to his fathers death, o King [Yudhisthira], and was crowned by the brahmins present.

(59) From that attack came they who used to inhabit the houses of the cities all lifeless to a fall, but all of them were thanks to the great mystic powers of Maya one by one dipped in a well of [life-giving] nectar [called Mrta-sanjîvayitari].

(67) O ruler of man, with the arrows joined on his bow did Shiva as the Lord and Controller this way by them at the time of noon set the so difficult to pierce three cities afire.