परे ब्रह्मण्यनिर्देश्ये भगवत्यखिलात्मनि । युक्तात्मन्यफला आसन्नपुण्यस्येव सत्क्रिया: ॥ ४१ ॥
pare brahmany anirdesye bhagavaty akhilatmani yuktatmany aphala asann apunyasyeva sat-kriyah
- pare
- in the supreme
- brahmani
- absolute
- anirdesye
- who is not perceivable by the senses
- bhagavati
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- akhila-atmani
- the Supersoul of everyone
- yukta-atmani
- on he whose mind was engaged (Prahlada)
- aphalah
- without effect
- asan
- were
- apunyasya
- of a person who has no assets in pious activities
- iva
- like
- sat-kriyah
- good activities (like the performance of sacrifices or austerities)
Even though a person who has no assets in pious activities performs some good deed, it will have no result. Thus the weapons of the demons had no tangible effects upon Prahlada Maharaja because he was a devotee undisturbed by material conditions and fully engaged in meditating upon and serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is unchangeable, who cannot be realized by the material senses, and who is the soul of the entire universe.