Pure devotion transcends all material qualities and asks nothing from Krishna except the privilege of serving Him eternally.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[Poor Recording] Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: "The great saint Nārada Muni said: Being pacified in this way by the devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja with prayers offered from the transcendental platform, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva gave up His anger. Being very kind to Prahlāda, who was lying prostrate, offering obeisances, the Lord spoke as follows." Prabhupāda: śrī-nārada uvāca [aside: This is written?] etāvad varṇita-guṇo bhaktyā bhaktena nirguṇaḥ prahrādaṁ praṇataṁ prīto yata-manyur abhāṣata [SB 7.9.51] So Nṛsiṁhadeva was very angry. Everything is natural. If somebody becomes 1 angry, it takes some time to get out of the anger.
So Nṛsiṁhadeva was very, very angry because His devotee, Prahlāda, was so much treated ill by his father, it became intolerable. [indistinct] children, they naturally attract the affection of the elderly people. So whatever we see in our dealings within the material world, the same things are there in the spiritual world. Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1].
This affection of the Lord, of the superior person to the inferior children, is natural. So wherefrom this affection comes? It comes from the Supreme Lord. Everything.
Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante [Taittirīya Upaniṣad 3.1(1)]. Whatever you see in this material world, same prototype of things are there in the spiritual world. Then what is the difference? The difference is, here everything is polluted, but in the material world..., er, in the spiritual world, there is no influence of the material qualities. Nirguṇa.
This is nirguṇa. Here everything is... Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ [Bg 3.27]. Guṇaiḥ karmāṇi is here. We should understand what is the difference between material and spiritual.
Here in this material world, world everything is polluted. But it is material pollution. Why? Sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa.
Out of these three guṇas, sattva-guṇa is the best. If one is situated in sattva-guṇa, then there is chance of being promoted to the stage of nirguṇa. The tamo-guṇa is the lowest state, and ignorance, foolish, rascals, can be found, and animals. This is tamo-guṇa.