श्रीप्रह्लाद उवाच तत्साधु मन्येऽसुरवर्य देहिनां सदा समुद्विग्नधियामसद्ग्रहात् । हित्वात्मपातं गृहमन्धकूपं वनं गतो यद्धरिमाश्रयेत ॥ ५ ॥
sri-prahlada uvaca tat sadhu manye ’sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta
- sri-prahladah uvaca
- Prahlada Maharaja replied
- tat
- that
- sadhu
- very good, or the best part of life
- manye
- I think
- asura-varya
- O King of the asuras
- dehinam
- of persons who have accepted the material body
- sada
- always
- samudvigna
- full of anxieties
- dhiyam
- whose intelligence
- asat-grahat
- because of accepting the temporary body or bodily relations as real (thinking “I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine”)
- hitva
- giving up
- atma-patam
- the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped
- grham
- the bodily concept of life, or household life
- andha-kupam
- which is nothing but a blind well (where there is no water but one nonetheless searches for water)
- vanam
- to the forest
- gatah
- going
- yat
- which
- harim
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- asrayeta
- may take shelter of
Prahlada Maharaja replied: O 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 Vrndavana, where only Krsna consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.