यस्यानुदास्यमेवास्मत्पितामह: किल वव्रे न तु स्वपित्र्यं यदुताकुतोभयं पदं दीयमानं भगवत: परमिति भगवतोपरते खलु स्वपितरि ॥ २५ ॥
yasyanudasyam evasmat-pitamahah kila vavre na tu sva-pitryam yad utakutobhayam padam diyamanam bhagavatah param iti bhagavatoparate khalu sva-pitari.
- yasya
- of whom (the Supreme Personality of Godhead)
- anudasyam
- the service
- eva
- certainly
- asmat
- our
- pita-mahah
- grandfather
- kila
- indeed
- vavre
- accepted
- na
- not
- tu
- but
- sva
- own
- pitryam
- paternal property
- yat
- which
- uta
- certainly
- akutah-bhayam
- fearlessness
- padam
- position
- diyamanam
- being offered
- bhagavatah
- than the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- param
- other
- iti
- thus
- bhagavata
- by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- uparate
- when killed
- khalu
- indeed
- sva-pitari
- his own father
Bali Maharaja said: My grandfather Prahlada Maharaja is the only person who understood his own self-interest. Upon the death of Prahlada’s father, Hiranyakasipu, Lord Nrsimhadeva wanted to offer Prahlada his father’s kingdom and even wanted to grant him liberation from material bondage, but Prahlada accepted neither. Liberation and material opulence, he thought, are obstacles to devotional service, and therefore such gifts from the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not His actual mercy. Consequently, instead of accepting the results of karma and jnana, Prahlada Maharaja simply begged the Lord for engagement in the service of His servant.