{"id":76609,"date":"2025-10-05T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=76609"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:18:04","slug":"prahladas-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/prahladas-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prahlada\u2019s Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Prahlada\u2019s teachers<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Prahlada\u2019s teachers, the two sons of the depressed Hiranyakasipu\u2019s guru, drew near Hiranyakasipu and asked him,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you worried? You have conquered the entire world. You have conquered air, fire, all five elements. You can easily fly in the air, and you can take a thunderbolt and defeat Indra. So why are you worried? Wait a little. Our father will soon come and solve this problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prahlada was again sent to school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, one day the teachers, desirous to engage in some household jobs, told him,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPrahlada, you should be the monitor and see that the other children do not do anything wrong. The boys can be somewhat naughty, so you must control them. We will return soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prahlada began teaching his fellow students about Krsna consciousness, but the boys initially resisted with the excuse that they would take up Krsna consciousness in their old age. They told Prahlada that now was the time to play.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prahlada replied,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe may die at an early age. We may even die when we are seven, eight, nine, or ten. If you die at a young age, you will not become old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to marry and become happy with family, and in order to nourish and support one\u2019s children, a person thinks,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will build a first-class house and make a very beautiful garden. I will have strong, beautiful dogs, and I will enjoy.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a waste of time. We don\u2019t want to suffer, but suffering comes to us by our past births\u2019 impressions. We don\u2019t want to become old, but old age also comes. If you have performed any pious activity in the past, your present happiness will come automatically. Maintenance of your life, your good wife, good children, and everything else will come automatically. Since happiness comes automatically as a result of our past lives\u2019 activities, why are you making so many efforts to become happy? Why not chant Krsna\u2019s name and remember Him from the beginning of life?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prahlada continued,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow you are boys of three, four, five, six, and seven years of age. Now you are free from worldly entanglements and your hearts are like plain sheets of paper, without anything written there. Later, when you mature, you may marry a beautiful lady. At that time, if you want to leave this world to perform bhajana, she will weep. How will you be able to give up such a beautiful, qualified wife?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, if you also have some children, beautiful sons or daughters, you will be engaged in serving them. Even if you try to give them up, you will not be able to do so. If the children call out to you in their sweet voices and broken language, \u2018Father, Father, Father,\u2019 how will you ever be able to give them up? You will think, \u2018I must support all these children. They are babies and cannot do anything. If I give up my household life, they will all die.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You may also lament,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, my beautiful dog and cow can\u2019t live without me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you make a good garden with many trees and flowers, and later you decide to give it up to associate with devotees to chant and remember Krsna. You will then consider, \u2018Who will take care of this garden if I leave? All the flowers will die.\u2019 You will not be able to leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prahlada continued,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is better that you chant and remember Krsna from childhood, when you are free from all these worldly entanglements.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All the students were inspired, but at the same time they had some doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe accept that what you are telling is true,\u201d they said. \u201cNow we have great faith in you; but we want to know where you learned all these truths. You always remain within the palace, where it is very difficult to associate with any great personality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n



\nThis is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n



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