Prahlada's Preaching

Chapter 6

Prahlada Maharaja inspired his friends to utilise their human form of life for something more valuable than mere material enjoyment. Such pleasures are fleeting, he told them, and automatically appear and disappear regardless of our best endeavours. Prahlada encouraged them to engender a sense of urgency, since in an average lifespan so much time is lost through childhood frolicking, sleeping, bodily maintenance, disease and old age. In reality, life in this world passes us by very quickly.

The demanding world of materialistic family life can consume one’s attention and leave little time, energy and enthusiasm for anything else. Entangled and preoccupied, one drowns in the fatal conceptions of “I, me and mine,” ignorant of the real spiritual essence. Thus, Prahlada warned his young comrades to remain free from material entanglement by keeping close contact with saintly persons. When Prahlada explained how he received this transformative knowledge from Narada Muni, his friends were completely puzzled – “Since we’ve all been in school under the strict eye of Sanda and Amarka, when did you receive this knowledge?”