ya etat kÄ«rtayen mahyaá¹
tvayÄ gÄ«tam idaá¹ naraḥ
tvÄá¹ ca mÄá¹ ca smaran kÄle
karma-bandhÄt pramucyate
yaḥ - anyone who; etat - this activity; kÄ«rtayet - chants; mahyam - unto Me; tvayÄ - by you; gÄ«tam - prayers offered; idam - this; naraḥ - human being; tvÄm - you; ca - as well as; mÄm ca - Me also; smaran - remembering; kÄle - in due course of time; karma-bandhÄt - from the bondage of material activities; pramucyate - becomes free.
Here it is stated that anyone who chants and hears about the activities of PrahlÄda MahÄrÄja and, in relationship with PrahlÄda’s activities, the activities of Ná¹›siá¹hadeva, gradually becomes free from all the bondage of fruitive activities. As stated in Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (2.15, 2.56):
yaá¹ hi na vyathayanty ete
puruá¹£aá¹ puruá¹£ará¹£abha
sama-duḥkha-sukhaá¹ dhÄ«raá¹
so ’má¹›tatvÄya kalpate
“O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.â€
duḥkheá¹£v anudvigna-manÄḥ
sukheṣu vigata-spṛhaḥ
vÄ«ta-rÄga-bhaya-krodhaḥ
sthita-dhīr munir ucyate
“One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries, who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.†A devotee should not be aggrieved in an awkward position, nor should he feel extraordinarily happy in material opulence. This is the way of expert management of material life. Because a devotee knows how to manage expertly, he is called jÄ«van-mukta. As RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« explains in Bhakti-rasÄmá¹›ta-sindhu:
Ä«hÄ yasya harer dÄsye
karmaá¹‡Ä manasÄ girÄ
nikhilÄsv apy avasthÄsu
jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate
“A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness (or, in other words, in the service of Kṛṣṇa) with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person even within this material world, although he may be engaged in many so-called material activities.†Because of constantly engaging in devotional service, in any condition of life, a devotee is free from all material bondage.
bhaktiḥ punÄti man-niá¹£á¹hÄ
Å›va-pÄkÄn api sambhavÄt
“Even one born in a family of meat-eaters is purified if he engages in devotional service.†(BhÄg. 11.14.21) ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« cites this verse in logically supporting that anyone who chants about the pure life and activities of PrahlÄda MahÄrÄja is freed from the reactions of material activities.