Divine grace mysteriously delivers spiritual knowledge to the sincere devotee even within impossible material circumstances.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupada: prahrāda tvaṁ vayaṁ cāpi narte 'nyaṁ vidmahe gurum etābhyāṁ guru-putrābhyāṁ bālānām api hīśvarau bālasyāntaḥpura-sthasya mahat-saṅgo duranvayaḥ chindhi naḥ saṁśayaṁ saumya syāc ced visrambha-kāraṇam [SB 7.6.29–30] [The sons of the demons replied: Dear Prahlāda, neither you nor we know any teacher or spiritual master other than Śaṇḍa and Amarka, the sons of Śukrācārya. After all, we are children and they our controllers. For you especially, who always remain within the palace, it is very difficult to associate with a great personality. Dear friend, most gentle one, would you kindly explain how it was possible for you to hear Nārada? Kindly dispel our doubts in this regard.] So after hearing from Prahlāda Mahārāja the son's of the demons, they said that, "You have stated that your knowledge was received from Nārada. It appears to be little astonishing because, so far we are concerned, we do not know any other teacher than Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka." Two teachers were appointed for instructing Prahlāda Mahārāja, their names were Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka and these two teachers were strictly prohibited by Hiraṇyakaśipu not to talk anything about Kṛṣṇa. When Prahlāda Mahārāja was chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa the two teachers were called for, "Why you have taught all this nonsense to my son?" The teachers replied, "My dear Sir, we do not teach this boy Hare Kṛṣṇa but naturally he chants Hare Kṛṣṇa. We do not know what is the cause." And after that Hiraṇyakaśipu decided that some of the men of Hare Kṛṣṇa party must be stealthily coming to Prahlāda and have had instructed him about this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So he tried to chastise him in different ways even by putting him on the fire or dropping him from the top of the hill, throwing him underneath the legs of an elephant, putting him amongst the snakes, in so many ways he wanted to stop him, but he was unsuccessful. Then Prahlāda Mahārāja took the chance of preaching the Kṛṣṇa cult amongst the boy-class-friends.
And the boys, they were astonished, "How is that, Prahlāda was preaching so nicely about spiritual matters? Wherefrom he learned it?" So Prahlāda Mahārāja replied that, "I have learned this from Śrī Nārada Mahārāja. Nārada Ṛṣi." Therefore they're inquiring astonishingly, "How is that you have learned this knowledge from Nārada?" [coughs] "First thing is that your father has appointed only these two teachers and he is very strict not to allow you to meet any other one, neither it was possible for you to go from the palace anywhere to learn these transcendental subjects. So how can we believe that you have learned this transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness from Nārada Muni?" This was their question. evaṁ daitya-sutaiḥ pṛṣṭo mahā-bhāgavato 'suraḥ uvāca tān smayamānaḥ smaran mad-anubhāṣitam [SB 7.7.1] [Nārada Muni said: Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was born in a family of asuras, he was the greatest of all devotees. Having thus been questioned by his class friends, the sons of the asuras, he remembered the words spoken to him by me and replied to his friends as follows.] This story of Prahlāda Mahārāja was being narrated by Nārada himself to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. So after hearing. So Nārada is a spiritual master of Prahlāda Mahārāja. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja, after hearing his class friends, the demoniac sons that, "How it is possible that you have learned it from Nārada?" To answer this question he first of all remembered the lotus feet of his spiritual master Nārada and smilingly began to reply as follows: prahrāda uvāca—Prahlāda Mahārāja said; pitari prasthite 'smākaṁ tapase mandarācalam yuddhodyamaṁ paraṁ cakrur vibudhā dānavān prati [SB 7.7.2] [Prahlāda Mahārāja said: When our father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, went to Mandarācala Mountain to execute severe austerities, in his absence the demigods, headed by King Indra, made a severe attempt to subdue all the demons in warfare.] [coughs] pitari prasthite 'smākaṁ tapase mandarācalam yuddhodyamaṁ paraṁ cakrur vibudhā dānavān prati [SB 7.7.2] saptame mātṛ-garbha-sthe svasmin nārada-bhāṣitam prahrādo varṇayām āsa śiṣya-pratyaya-siddhaye [Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, 7.7, intro] aśrāvi nāradād etan mayā garbha itīritum tat prastāva-kathām āha padyaiḥṣoḍaśabhiḥ sudhīḥ [Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, 7.7.1] In this chapter Prahlāda Mahārāja will describe how he learned from Nārada Ṛṣi spiritual instruction even from within the womb of his mother. asmākaṁ pitari hiraṇyakaśipau. sva-kṛtenaiva pāpena pāpo ’sāva-bhakṣi bhakṣita iti harṣeṇa vadanto yuddhodyamaṁ cakruḥ.
[Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, 7.7.2-5] pipīlikair ahir iva diṣṭyā lokopatāpanaḥ pāpena pāpo 'bhakṣīti vadanto vāsavādayaḥ [SB 7.7.3] ["Alas, as a serpent is eaten by small ants, so the troublesome Hiraṇyakaśipu, who always inflicted miseries upon all types of people, has now been defeated by the reactions of his own sinful activities." Saying this, the demigods, headed by King Indra, arranged to fight the demons.] teṣām atibalodyogaṁ niśamyāsura-yūthapāḥ vadhyamānāḥ surair bhītā dudruvuḥ sarvato diśam kalatra-putra-vittāptān gṛhān paśu-paricchadān nāvekṣyamāṇās tvaritāḥ sarve prāṇa-parīpsavaḥ [SB 7.7.4–5] [When the great leaders of the demons, who were being killed one after another, saw the unprecedented exertion of the demigods in fighting, they began to flee, scattering themselves in all directions. Simply to protect their lives, they hastily fled from their homes, wives, children, animals and household paraphernalia. Paying no heed to all these, the demons simply fled.] So Prahlāda Mahārāja describes that there was fight between the demons and the demigods. So his father was leading the demons party, he was the leader of the demons but this side, the demons, were defeated very heavily.
So much so that being afraid of being killed they left their homes, left their wealth and everything and they fled away, yudhā parām. pipīlikair ahir iva diṣṭyā lokopatāpanaḥ [SB 7.7.3] [Alas, as a serpent is eaten by small ants, so the troublesome Hiraṇyakaśipu, who always inflicted miseries upon all types of people, has now been defeated by the reactions of his own sinful activities." Saying this, the demigods, headed by King Indra, arranged to fight the demons.] This time the demigods defeated the demons exactly like a serpent eats the ants. The serpent eats the ants. Just like a small ant is very insignificant before a venomous serpent similarly the demons were just like ants and the demigods were just like serpents and they swallowed up. pāpena pāpo 'bhakṣīti vadanto vāsavādayaḥ [SB 7.7.3] teṣām atibalodyogaṁ niśamyāsura-yūthapāḥ vadhyamānāḥ surair bhītā dudruvuḥ sarvato diśam [SB 7.7.4] [When the great leaders of the demons, who were being killed one after another, saw the unprecedented exertion of the demigods in fighting, they began to flee, scattering themselves in all directions. Simply to protect their lives, they hastily fled from their homes, wives, children, animals and household paraphernalia. Paying no heed to all these, the demons simply fled.] In this way, although they are very powerful, still they were scattered by the fighting of the demigods. So much so that they gave up their wives, children and wealth, house. Paśu-paricchadān—their animals and dresses. These are, for a family man, these are the objects of attraction.
Kalatra—first, first attraction is wife, the second attraction is children, the third attraction is wealth and the forth attraction is friends, the fifth attraction is house, the sixth attraction animals and seventh attraction is nice dresses. Nāvekṣyamāṇās tvaritāḥ sarve prāṇa. All these paraphernalia are very attractive for a materialistic person but being afraid of their life they did not care for all these attractions, left home and fled away. vyalumpan rāja-śibiram amarā jaya-kāṅkṣiṇaḥ indras tu rāja-mahiṣīṁ mātaraṁ mama cāgrahīt [SB 7.7.6] [The victorious demigods plundered the palace of Hiraṇyakaśipu, the king of the demons, and destroyed everything within it. Then Indra, king of heaven, arrested my mother, the Queen.] Vyalumpan rāja-śibiram [pause] sarvasvāpahāreṇa nāśitavantaḥ [Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, 7.7.6–7]. vyalumpan rāja-śibiram amarā jaya-kāṅkṣiṇaḥ [SB 7.7.6] So the demon, kings, were practically lost of everything and the demigods, being too much encouraged by the defeat of the demons, they attacked all their camps and tents in the battlefield. That is the way after the battle, the victory is owed.
The victorious party, they plunder the defeated party. I think this system is still going on in the modern age. That is called "booty". Devotee: Plundering. Prabhupada: Yes, plundering. So the soldiers are given freedom even to rape the women.
The soldiers are very sexually that they do not get sex indulgence in the battlefield so after winning a country they are given freedom to rape the women. You know that?