अथ ताञ्श्लक्ष्णया वाचा प्रत्याहूय महाबुध: । उवाच विद्वांस्तन्निष्ठां कृपया प्रहसन्निव ॥ ५५ ॥
atha tan slaksnaya vaca pratyahuya maha-budhah uvaca vidvams tan-nistham krpaya prahasann iva
- atha
- then
- tan
- the class friends
- slaksnaya
- with very pleasing
- vaca
- speech
- pratyahuya
- addressing
- maha-budhah
- Prahlada Maharaja, who was highly learned and advanced in spiritual consciousness (maha means great and budha means learne)
- uvaca
- said
- vidvan
- very learned
- tat-nistham
- the path of God realization
- krpaya
- being merciful
- prahasan
- smiling
- iva
- like.
Prahlada Maharaja, who was truly the supreme learned person, then addressed his class friends in very sweet language. Smiling, he began to teach them about the uselessness of the materialistic way of life. Being very kind to them, he instructed them as follows.