"The child Prahlāda was the son of the demon king, Hiraṇyakaśipu. Although he was actually a Viṣṇu bhakta, as long as he had not started preaching about the Absolute Truth, he remained the apple of his father’s eye, and the beloved prince of the whole demon society. As the necklace that adorned their necks and the treasure that graced their hearts, he was the object of everyone’s respect, care, affection, parental love, praise and admiration. Yet, from the day Prahlāda opened his mouth in front of the king of demons and began preaching about the Absolute Truth, more and more people became his enemy. He had begun preaching about one-pointed devotion to Viṣṇu; about how essential it is to perform hari-bhajana by renouncing one’s ties to household life; about the fallacy of kula-gurus*, who are completely infatuated with their families; and about the importance of serving the paramahaṁsa clan (the topmost swan-like devotees). And he had begun preaching to the young sons of the demons, his peers in school, about the absolute necessity of performing hari-bhajana after rejecting the association of their demon families, who had all accepted the vows of household life. From that time on, more and more demons turned against him." _____________ * So-called gurus who maintain their disciplic succession solely through heredity.
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