![[Prahlada Maharaja]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/prahlada_meditation.jpg?w=119&h=115 "[Prahlada Maharaja]")
“Prahlada Maharaja admitted frankly, ‘My dear teachers, you wrongly think that Lord Vishnu is your enemy, but because He is favorable toward me, I understand that He is the friend of everyone. You may think that I have taken the side of your enemy, but factually He has bestowed a great favor upon me.’” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.5.13 Purport)
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![[Ravana in disguise]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/ravana_disguise_sita.jpg?w=119&h=127 "[Ravana in disguise]")
“Then the ten-necked one, who was hiding nearby, quickly assumed the form of a wandering mendicant and approached Vaidehi.” (Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 46.2)![[Shri Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/radha_krishna-3.jpg?w=119&h=137 "[Shri Krishna]")
“To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 10.10)![[Shri Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/radha_krishna-2.jpg?w=119&h=122 "[Shri Krishna]")
“Being beyond the range of limited sense perception [adhokshaja], You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy. You are invisible to the foolish observer, exactly as an actor dressed as a player is not recognized.” (Queen Kunti speaking to Lord Krishna, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.8.19)![[Shri Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/radha_krishna.jpg?w=119&h=147 "[Shri Krishna]")
“Everyone should be friendly for the service of the Lord. Everyone should praise another’s service to the Lord and not be proud of his own service. This is the way of Vaishnava thinking, Vaikuntha thinking. There may be rivalries and apparent competition between servants in performing service, but in the Vaikuntha planets the service of another servant is appreciated, not condemned.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.5.12 Purport)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/krishna_lotus_feet-5.jpg?w=119&h=103 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“Demons think of everyone as a friend or enemy, but Vaishnavas say that since everyone is a servant of the Lord, everyone is on the same platform. Therefore a Vaishnava treats other living entities neither as friends nor as enemies, but instead tries to spread Krishna consciousness, teaching everyone that we are all one as servants of the Supreme Lord but are uselessly wasting our valuable lives by creating nations, communities and other groups of friends and enemies.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.5.12 Purport)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/krishna_lotus_feet-4.jpg?w=119&h=98 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“When Prahlada Maharaja’s teachers and demoniac father asked him how his intelligence had been polluted, Prahlada Maharaja said, ‘As far as I am concerned, my intelligence has not been polluted. Rather, by the grace of my spiritual master and by the grace of my Lord, Krishna, I have now learned that no one is my enemy and no one is my friend. We are all actually eternal servants of Krishna, but under the influence of the external energy we think that we are separately situated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead as friends and enemies of one another. This mistaken idea has now been corrected, and therefore, unlike ordinary human beings, I no longer think that I am God and that others are my friends and enemies.’” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.5.12 Purport)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/krishna_lotus_feet-3.jpg?w=119&h=97 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“In any assembly where there are discourses about saints and devotees, O King Yudhishthira, even the enemies of the demons, namely the demigods, what to speak of you, would cite Prahlada Maharaja as an example of a great devotee.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.35)![[Demigods_worshiping_Vishnu]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/demigods_worshiping_vishnu.jpg?w=119&h=126 "[Demigods_worshiping_Vishnu]")
“Brahma, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 2.9.33)![[Sita-Rama]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/sita_rama_yt1.png?w=119&h=106 "[Sita-Rama]")
“I am faithfully engaged in the service of Rama, who is a hero and prince of wide renown, who has full control over His senses and mind [jitendriyam], who is mighty-armed, and whose face resembles a full moon.” (Sita Devi speaking to Ravana, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 47.36)
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