Narasimha Deva blesses Prahlada 

Narasimha Deva blesses Prahlada 

After offering Him their beautiful prayers of glorification from a little afar, they requested Laksmi-devi, 

“Please go and pacify your husband.”

She replied, 

“Today I am afraid to go. He may also kill me.”

 

Next they requested Brahma, 

“You should go; He is like your father.”

Brahma replied, 

“Today, I cannot go.”

Then they told Lord Siva, 

“You are a friend of Krsna. You should go.” 

Siva replied, 

“Today we are not at all friends.”

Finally, Brahma requested Prahlada, 

“You should go. He is like your father.”

 

Prahlada Maharaja immediately went to Lord Nrsimhadeva and jumped upon His lap. Nrsimhadeva at once became pacified and tears fell from His eyes. He had been so angry; but now, in a moment, He was fully pacified. He began licking Prahlada Maharaja, as animals do, and said, 

“I came so late, and I am upset about that. I want to give you a benediction.”

 

Prahlada replied, 

“I am not a businessman. I do not perform devotional service to You in order for You to give me something in return. This is business. If any desire is hiding somewhere in my heart, please remove it so that I can become your pure devotee. You have asked me to take a benediction. That makes me think there may be some material desire hidden in my heart – but I don’t know where it is hidden.”

 

Lord Nrsimhadeva said, 

“I know that you are pure; you never require anything. Still, I desire that you take any benediction.”

 

Prahlada Maharaja replied, 

“If You insist that I take a benediction, I desire that You deliver my father. He has offended You and me, and he has given great troubles to all the devotees. He has cut down all the green trees so that no one would be able to get any wood or fruit. He killed many cows so that no one would be able to get milk, ghee, and butter to be used for devotional activities like homas, fire sacrifices, and offering of bhoga to the Lord. He has also killed so many brahmanas, and in this way he has committed innumerable sins. Please forgive him.”

 

Lord Nrsimhadeva said, 

“Don’t worry about this at all. Your father has already been liberated. In fact twenty-one generations of your forefathers will be liberated.”

For the uttama-adhikari, twenty-one generations – forward and back – will be liberated. 

Regarding those who are madhyama-adhikari, who are always chanting, remembering and performing devotional activities, their relatives of fourteen generations will be liberated. 

Regarding those who are kanistha-adhikari, who are chanting, and remembering, who have taken initiation and are trying to engage in pure harinama and other devotional activities but cannot properly do so, seven generations of their relatives will be liberated.

“I want to give you a benediction. My darsana should not go in vain.”

 

Prahlada replied, 

“All these conditioned souls, who have forgotten You and who are engaged in many sinful activities are greatly suffering. I cannot tolerate their suffering. I desire that my pious and devotional activities be given to them, so that they may be liberated and become devotees. I want to take all the fruits of their sinful activities and suffer for them for millions of births.”

 

Nrsimhadeva said, 

“In this conversation, you have won and I am defeated. I am giving you the benediction that all persons who hear the hari-katha about Myself and yourself – the pastimes of Prahlada Maharaja and Nrsimhadeva – will be quickly liberated. They will not have to suffer.”

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