Narada

Shri Prahlad Uvach Tat Sadhu Man ye Sur Varya Dehinaam Sada Samudvigna Dhiyaam Asad Grahaat Hitva Atma Paatam Griham Andha Kupam Vanam Gato Yad Dharim Ashrayet.

Quote, Prahlad Maharaj replied, Oh, best of the Asuras, king of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering.

One should give up this position and go to the forest, Vana.

More clearly, one should go to Vrindavan, where only Krishna consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Prahlada was not speaking from sentiment either.

He had logic, reasoning, and timeless wisdom for his support.

That wisdom was passed along to him by his spiritual master, Narad Muni.

Bhagavad Gita has a section describing the difference between the divine and demoniac natures.

Sri Raghunath Das Goswami writes in his Svaniam Dasakam, Not even for a moment will I go near that impure place where a proud hypocrite worships Govinda alone without worshipping his most expert lover, Sri Gandharva Radha.

whose glories are sung by the Vedic scriptures, and great sages like Narada Muni, who carries the Veena.

What is meaning

Gandharva? Gandharva.

Like every soul has an atomic level of love, because I'm Atma and he's Paramatma, no? So every soul has an atomic, very small amount of love.

And then there are devotees who have more or less love.

Like so-so, no? Sometimes yes, like great devotees like Narada Muni, then I feel like, my God, they are so great Vaishnavas in the Shastras.

Narada Muni is so absorbed in Narayan.

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[laughs] "Narayanam naram scaryanam chaitanyam ruttham dehim sarasvatym vyasam tato jayam udirayet." "Before reciting the Srimad Bhagavatam, which is our very means of conquest, one should offer respectful obeisances to the Supreme Lord Narayana, unto Narada Muni, the supreme most human being, and to mother Saraswati, the goddess of learning, and to Srila Vyasadeva, the author." "Nasta-praysv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya bhagavaty uttama-sloke bhaktir bhavati naisthiki." "By regular attendance in class on the Bhagavatam and by rendering service to the pure devotees, all that is troublesome to the heart will become eradicated, and loving service to the Supreme Lord, who is praised with transcendental songs, will be established as an irrevocable fact." "Om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah." "I was born in the darkness of ignorance.

My teachers are opening my eyes with the torchlight of knowledge.

I offer my obeisances at their lotus feet." Reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 10, Chapter 39, Text 40.

When his father has gone for tapasya, Prahlad is in the womb.

And now Narada Muni plays a wonderful role, wonderful person and people have how they have destroyed, he is a catalyst between the divine plan and human.

But he is painted as chugli and all, God knows, all stupid propaganda.

So what does he advise his wife? She says, how do I spend my days? He says, you come and stay in our company.

He's just seeking the abode that corresponds with his, where the mantra that he's chanting to the person he's chanting that mantra, the external manifestations of it with manifestation, which includes his abode.

And another class, I'm teaching the first book, which is Bhagavad Kripa Sar, Narada looking for the topmost recipient of Krishna's mercy.

They go in the same progression, because as the level of devotion increases, the corresponding place, which is superior manifest.

And they run parallel.

They can't wait to come to the assembly hall and to see Krishna personally sitting on that throne beyond excellences, surrounded in rows by everything.

Also nearby was the Lord's minister, Bhikkhadru, with Krita Varma and several other prominent Vrishnis.

Sri Narada was entertaining the Lord, making him smile with clever words, fine singing, and the music of his Venus.

So in the midst of all this, Narada, Deva Rishi, the Rishi among the demigods, and he's so talented with clever words.