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Chapter 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

 

Chapter 6: Prahlâda Instructs His Asura Schoolmates

(1-2)  S'rî Prahlâda said: 'From one's 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. (2) That way [of meaning] indeed is of a living being here the approaching of the feet of Vishnu because this concerns the dearest and best one of all alive, the Master of the Soul [see also 3.25: 38 and B.G. 5: 29].
 

Chapter 7: What Prahlâda Learned in the Womb

(15) The rishi as the man in control gave out of compassion her, in fact the both of us, instructions on the truth of dharma and spiritual knowledge, especially pointing it out to me without a tinge of material interest [compare 1.2: 7].

Chapter 8: Lord Nrisimhadeva Slays the King of the Demons

(29) In protest with his limbs wrestling to get away placed the Lord him, whose skin couldn't even be cut by Indra's thunderbolt, like a snake or mouse over the edge of His thigh and pierced He him with His nails as easy as Garuda does seizing a viper.

(30) He with His most fearful eyes full of anger, was difficult to behold. With His mouth wide open licking the edges with His tongue and with His manes and face smeared red with traces of blood, wore He the intestines like a garland around His neck as if He was a lion that just has killed an elephant.

(46) The scientific experts said: 'Our formulas, that each by different ways of concentration are attained, were blocked by this fool puffed up about his strength and capacity; He who in battle killed him like he was an animal, unto Him who appeared as Nrisimha, we yield for sure ever obliged.'

Chapter 9: Prahlâda Propitiates Lord Nrisimhadeva 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.

(38) This way according the yuga in question appearing in different incarnations as a human being, a saint, a god or an aquatic, You protect all the worlds, sometimes in defense of the dharma killing the world its troublemakers, o Supreme Personality; in Kali-yuga You are covered [channa] and therefore are You, being one and the same person, called Triyuga [from being visible in the tree other yugas, see also Canto 11.5: 32].

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

(2) S'rî Prahlâda said: 'Please do not allure me, because of my asura birth I have a propensity for lusting over all those material blessings. It was of being afraid of such material association that, desiring liberation, for the sake of complete detachment I have taken to the shelter of You.

(67) O ruler of man, with the arrows joined on his bow set Lord S'iva as the Master and Controller thus
by means of them, at noon, the so difficult to pierce three cities afire.

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