Topics covered:
SB 7.4: Hiraṇyakaśipu Terrorizes the Universe
- Austerities performed byHiraṇyakaśipu.
- Brahmas blessings to Hiraṇyakaśipu.
- His body revitalized by Brahma.
- Hiraṇyakaśipus humble prayers.
- Hiraṇyakaśipu conquers the universe.
- The opulences at Indras residence.
- Hiraṇyakaśipuis worshiped by everyone.
- Hiraṇyakaśipuremains a servant of his senses.
- The universal rulers surrender to Vishnu.
- The voice of the Lord drives away all fear.
- The glorious qualities of Prahlāda Maharaja.
- Ecstatic symptoms manifest by Prahlāda.
- Hiraṇyakaśipu torments his own son.
SB 7.5: Prahlāda Mahārāja, the Saintly Son of Hiraṇyakaśipu
- The demons accept Shukracarya as their priest.
- Prahlāda instructing the king of the demons.
- Prahlāda is faithful to his fathers enemies.
- The priests of the demons pacify Prahlāda.
- Prahlāda is chastised by his teachers.
- Vishnu is an ax for cutting down demons.
- The nine processes of devotional service.
- Hiranyakashipu become angry at his son.
- Materialists repeatedly chew the chewed.
- Hiraṇyakaśipu order the death of Prahlāda.
- The demon begin to torture Prahlāda.
- Prahlāda is unaffected by the the treacheries of his father.
- Prahlāda instruct his class friends.
SB 7.6: Prahlāda Instructs His Demoniac Schoolmates
- Teach every child Krishna consciousness.
- Bodily pleasure is available in any species of life.
- Economic development is worthless.
- How to waste your life.
- The ropes of family affection.
- Money is sweeter then honey.
- The almighty tongue and genitals.
- Dancing dogs.
- To the atheist the Lord appears nonexistent.
- Nothing is unobtainable for devotees.
- Surrendering to Krishna is transcendental.
- Transcendental knowledge is difficult to understand.
SB 7.7: What Prahlāda Learned in the Womb
- The demigods plunder the demon.
- Narada saves the unborn hero, Prahlāda.
- Prahlāda hears from Narada while in the womb.
- Both the Lord and we are conscious individuals.
- How to extract the spirit soul.
- All sober persons should search for the soul.
- The chains of polluted intelligence.
- Accept and serve the bona fide guru.
- Going to hell requires great endeavor.
- Attempts for happiness always yield distress.
- Today’s actions create your future body.
- Seeing Krishna everywhere is the ultimate goal.
SB 7.8: Lord Nṛsimhadeva Slays the King of the Demons
- Hiraṇyakaśipu decides to kill his son Prahlāda.
- Prahlāda preaches to his father.
- Is God is everywhere, why cant i see him.
- Lord Nṛsimhadeva emerges from a pillar.
- Descriptions of Lord Nṛsimhadeva form.
- The Lord tears Hiraṇyakaśipu to pieces.
- The demigods offer prayers to Lord Nṛsimhadeva.
SB 7.9: Prahlāda Pacifies Lord Nṛsimhadeva with Prayers
- Prahlāda approaches Lord Nṛsimhadeva.
- Prahlāda prayers to the Lord.
- Even a dog eater who becomes devotee is exalted.
- The Lord incarnates for his own pleasure.
- So – called remedies are worse the diseases.
- Scientists and politicians can never save us.
- Future happiness is only a mirage.
- Our first duty is to serve the guru.
- Lords mystic slumber.
- In this age the Lord does not assert himself.
- The senses are like many wives.
- Help save the fools and rascals.
- Meditating in seclusion is condemned.
- The Lord gives up his anger.
- Devotees refuse material benefits.
- Devotees fear materialistic life.
- Serving the Lord for material profit.
- Krishna is naturally our master.
- The Lord orders Prahlāda to rule demons.
- Exalted devotee purify entire nations.
- Lord Brahma prays to Lord Nṛsimhadeva.
- There births of Jaya and Vijaya.
- Attentive hearers will attain the spiritual world.
Lessons to be learned:
- A devotee is not interested in bhukti or mukti, but hearing of Lord’s qualities and pastimes.
- To emphasize that even an enemy of Lord can be delivered, what to speak of a friend.
- Empowerment by Krishna makes one worshipable.
- Supreme Personality of Godhead’s Punishment is also a manifestation of His equality.
- One protected by the Lord cannot be harmed.
- Cutting of trees simply to manufacture paper for the publication of unwanted literature is greatest sinful act.
- Paper mills should manufacture paper only for publication of spiritual literature.
- We are fully under a higher control.
- Philosophy without character is useless.
- Uncontrolled senses = Dissatisfaction.
- Sense control = Satisfaction.
- Demons cannot influence holy dhama.
- If one takes shelter of such a dhama, worship of Lord becomes easy & resultant spiritual advancement takes place.
- When one is influenced by evil stars, he can’t make advancement in any activity.
- Prahlāda Maharaj influenced by Krsnaloka – Supreme planet.
- As father and mother cared for for child, Govinda cared forPrahlāda Mahārāja.
- One cannot understand anything from a materialistic scholar puffed up with academic knowledge.
- Bhaktya mam abhijanati: try to understand Krishna by devotional service & from a devotee.
- Sukrācārya – indicates person interested in obtaining benefits for sons & descendants regardless of how the money comes.
- A devotee can challenge scientists & philosophers because the best of everything is known to a devotee by Krishna’s grace.
- Prahlad Maharaja was able to solve most difficult parts of problems because of his advanced Krishna consciousness.
- Real success in life: Krishna consciousness.
- Demons are angered by the influence of a vaishnava.
- Confronting against all kinds of difficulties, we must spread the Krishna consciousness movement with great determination like Prahlāda Maharaja.
- People are concerned with dharma, artha and kama and not liberation.
- Difference of opinion between who is real Guru.
- Ones sincere endeavor to perform these 9 processes of devotional service is bhakti.
- Asaram: For a demon, there is no substance in the process of devotional service but to a devotee devotional service is the only essential factor.
- Griha-vrata: Only aim to live comfortably with body in material world cannot understand Krishna.
- Unless one is trained properly by a MAHAT devotee, there is no possibility of ones understanding of Krishna and devotional service.
- Unless one is a devotee, one cannot understand the existence of spiritual world.
- Education that keeps the conditioned soul bound life after life is called materialistic education.
- Prahlāda Maharaja maintain attitude of noncooperation, yet tolerant and humble.
- Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be injured because He is always in transcendence.
- Mistake of materialistic life is understood by devotees, and therefore they smile upon it, considering it insignificant.
- Krishna consciousness movement is anxious to serve human society by bhakti, save human being from being degraded again to animal life.
- Emphasize that even an enemy of Lord can be delivered, what to speak of a friend.
- Empowerment by Krishna makes one worshipable.
- Supreme Personality of Godhead’s punishment is also a manifestation of His equality.
- One protected by the Lord cannot be harmed.
- Cutting of trees simply to manufacture paper for the publication of unwanted literature is greatest sinful act.
- Paper mills should manufacture paper only for publication of Spiritual literature.
- We are fully under a higher control.
- As father and mother cared for for child, Govinda cared for Prahlād mahārāja.
- To understand God and the devotee by parampara is the process of knowledge.
- There is no need to speculate about God and His devotee.
- Accept statements of a bona fide devotee and thus try to understand.
- One should not remain in secluded place with a woman.
- Ordinary persons should not imitate highly elevated devotees.
- Unless one is extremely expert, he cannot understand the expert management of the supreme expert.
- Lord Nṛsimhadeva’s final instructions to PrahlādaMaharaja: Enjoy materially, enjoy spiritually, come back to Godhead, purify others.
Sruti phala – Fruit of hearingPrahlāda Maharaja katha
SB 7.10.46 — One who hears and chants this narration about the omnipotence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is certainly liberated from material bondage without fail.
SB 7.10.47 — Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best among exalted devotees. Anyone who with great attention hears this narration concerning the activities of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the killing of Hiraṇyakaśipu, and the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nṛsiṁhadeva, surely reaches the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.
