O best of your family! Have the enemies polluted your mind or did you do this yourself? Please tell us. We are all your teachers and are very eager to hear.
utāho te svato 'bhavat
bhaṇyatāṁ śrotu-kāmānāṁ
gurūṇāṁ kula-nandana
O best of your family! Have the enemies polluted your mind or did you do this yourself? Please tell us. We are all your teachers and are very eager to hear.
You should tell us. They thought, “If he gives the name of some Vaiṣṇava, recognizing that person, we will bring him the assembly of the King and beat him.”
|| 7.5.11 ||
śrī-prahrāda uvāca
paraḥ svaś cety asad-grāhaḥ
puṁsāṁ yan-māyayā kṛtaḥ
vimohita-dhiyāṁ dṛṣṭas
tasmai bhagavate namaḥ
Prahlāda said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, whose external energy has created the distinctions of "my friend" and "my enemy" for men of deluded intelligence, which I can see directly now.
He thinking, “These fools cooked in saṁsāra think I am a stupid boy” then spoke. Asad-grāhaḥ means “thinking of friend and enemy.” The other meaning is a crocodile (graha), which devours persons who have fallen in saṁsāra (asat). That conception has been created by māyā and previously inferred (dṛṣtaḥ). Now it is directly perceived by me. You are acting in this way all the time.
|| 7.5.12 ||
sa yadānuvrataḥ puṁsāṁ
paśu-buddhir vibhidyate
anya eṣa tathānyo 'ham
iti bheda-gatāsatī
When the Lord is favorable to a jīva, his animal intelligence is destroyed. Conceptions of difference between me and others are wrong.
He answers the question “Where does your difference in intelligence come from?” When the Lord is favorably inclined, animal intelligence is destroyed. What is that intelligence? He (eṣaḥ) is my enemy (anyaḥ). I will kill him. Making these distinctions (bheda) is wrong (asatī).
na hi gopyaṁ hi sadhūnāṁ kṛtyaṁ sarvātmanām iha
asty asva-para-dṛṣṭīnām amitrodāsta-vidviṣām
Certainly, no secrets are to be kept by saintly personalities, who see all others as equal to themselves, who have no conception of "mine" or "another's" and who do not consider who is a friend, who is an enemy and who is neutral. SB 10.24.4
There is no difference because from the point of view of ātmā, all jīvas are similar, and from the point of view of the body, all bodies are made of the same five elements.
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