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Hiranya Kasipu reproved the teachers in anger. They told
him, it was neither from themselves nor from any one else that Prah-
lada had these teachings, but that they were spontaneous with him.
The Asura king then addressing his son said: "If you have not
learned these things from your teachings, whence could you have
such a vicious inclination."
Prahlada replied: "Inclination for Vishnu does not come to
the Grihastha either from himself or from any other. One blind man
cannot lead another. It is the company of Mahatmas alone that
can give such an inclination."
Hiranya Kasipu could bear it no longer. He threw down the
child from his embrace, and asked the Asuras to kill him at once
or expel him. They cried out " kill him, kill him," and struck the
five year old child with their spears. But Prahlada was deeply con-
centrated in Bhagavan, so he felt not the spears at all. This put
Hiranya Kasipu in fear, and he devised means to kill the boy.
He tried big elephants, venomous serpents, Tantric practices,
throwing down the child from the hills, enclosing him in cavities, poi-
soning, starvation, cold, air, fire, water, but failed to kill his innocent
son. He then thought his end was near at hand and became melan-
choly. Shanda and Amarka told him not to entertain fears, but to
wait till Shukra came. The king asked them to take charge of the
boy once more. They again commenced to teach him their sciences.
One day the teachers left the house on business. The boys were all
engaged in play, and they invited Prahlada into their midst. Prah-
lada took the opportunity to instruct the boys. He explained to
them in eloquent terms the transitoriness of all joys and sorrows and
the vanity of all worldly attachments. He taught them the imperish-
able character of Atma, and dilated on its relation to the body and
the universe. He then preached in glowing words friendliness to all
beings and devotion to Bhagavan. He then told the boys that he
had learned these things himself from Narada.
The boys expressed wonder, for they knew Prahlada to have
been always under the tuition of Shanda and Amarka.
Prahlcida informed them that when Hiranya Kasipu had gone
to the Mandara mountain for prayer, the Devas attacked his kingdom,
and Indra carried away his wife. Prahlada was then in her womb.
Narada kept Hiranya Kasipu's wife in his own Ashrama till he had
taught to her, more for the child in the womb than for the mother, the
whole of Atma Vidya.
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