True humility surpasses eloquence: the greatest devotee recognizes their unworthiness while others remain proud of their attainments.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.8 — July 1, 1968, Montreal 680701SB-MONTREAL [24:42 Minutes] Prabhupāda: brahmādayaḥ sura-gaṇā-munayo 'tha siddhāḥ sattvaikatāna-gatayo vacasāṁ pravāhaiḥ nārādhituṁ puru-guṇair adhunāpi pipruḥ kiṁ toṣṭum arhati sa me harir ugra-jāteḥ [SB 7.9.8] [Prahlāda Mahārāja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Even until now, all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, and all the saintly persons could not satisfy the Lord by streams of excellent words, although such persons are very qualified, being in the mode of goodness. Then what is to be said of me? I am not at all qualified.] Today I shall recite before you the prayers offered by Prahlāda Mahārāja to Nṛsiṁhadeva.
This Prahlāda Mahārāja was tortured by his father on account of his becoming a Kṛṣṇa conscious boy. The only fault was that... [aside:] What is that? The door may be open. The Prahlāda Mahārāja was a boy, five years old, youngest son of his father, very affectionate son. But one day the father took the little boy on his lap and asked the boy, "My dear child, what you have learned the best from your teachers?
Will you kindly explain?" Prahlāda Mahārāja answered, tat sādhu manye 'sura-varya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna-dhiyāmasad-grahāt hitvātma-ghātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ vanaṁ gato yad-dharim āśrayeta [SB 7.5.5] [Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vṛndāvana, where only Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.] The father asked the best thing the boy learned from his teachers, and the boy, five-years-old boy, replied, "My dear best of the demons." [laughter] He never addressed his father, "My dear father," because his father was atheist number one, godless, and he was a great devotee of God. So when the father inquired, he straightly replied.
He knew that his father was very powerful demon, but he was not afraid, although he was five-years-old boy. He plainly replied, "My dear the best of the demons," sura-varya, asura varya. Asura means demons, and varya means the best, first-class demon. So "I think," tat sādhu manye—sādhu means honest, very good, very nice—"that is very nice." What is that? Dehināṁ: "For the entities who have accepted this material body..." He is speaking universally.
Not for himself or for his father, but he was speaking generally, for everybody. Everybody. Anyone. Dehināṁ. Dehi means this body.
We are different from this body. We have several times discussed this point. So in Sanskrit word there are two implication in the understanding of our existence. One is deha.
Deha means this body. And dehi means the proprietor of the body. I am the proprietor of my body; you are the proprietor of your body. So Prahlāda Mahārāja says, "For all the proprietors of the body"—that means for everyone who has accepted this material body, all living entities—"that is the best thing." What is that? Sadā samudvigna-dhiyaṁ.