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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.4.42

స ఉత్తమశ్లోకపదారవిన్దయో- ర్నిషేవయాకిఞ్చనసఙ్గలబ్ధయా । తన్వన్ పరాం నిర్వృతిమాత్మనో ముహు- ర్దు:సఙ్గదీనస్య మన: శమం వ్యధాత్ ॥ ౪౨ ॥
sa uttama-śloka-padāravindayor
[sa uttama-shloka-padaaravindayor]
niṣevayākiṣcana-saṅga-labdhayā
[nishevayaakishchana-sanga-labdhayaa]
tanvan parāṁ nirvṛtim ātmano muhur
[tanvan paraam nirvritim aatmano muhur]
duḥsaṅga-dīnasya manaḥ śamaṁ vyadhāt
[duhsanga-deenasya manah shamam vyadhaat]
Word-for-word
saḥ — he (Prahlāda Mahārāja) uttama-śloka-pada-aravindayoḥ — to the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped by transcendental prayers niṣevayā — by constant service akiṣcana — of devotees who have nothing to do with the material world saṅga — in the association labdhayā — obtained tanvan — expanding parām — highest nirvṛtim — bliss ātmanaḥ — of the spirit soul muhuḥ — constantly duḥsaṅga-dīnasya — of a person poor in spiritual understanding due to bad association manaḥ — the mind śamam — peaceful vyadhāt — made.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
sa uttama-śloka-padāravindayor
saḥ
he (Prahlāda Mahārāja)
uttama-śloka-pada-aravindayoḥ
to the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped by transcendental prayers
niṣevayākiṣcana-saṅga-labdhayā
niṣevayā
by constant service
akiṣcana
of devotees who have nothing to do with the material world
saṅga
in the association
labdhayā
obtained
tanvan parāṁ nirvṛtim ātmano muhur
tanvan
expanding
parām
highest
nirvṛtim
bliss
ātmanaḥ
of the spirit soul
muhuḥ
constantly
duḥsaṅga-dīnasya manaḥ śamaṁ vyadhāt
duḥsaṅga-dīnasya
of a person poor in spiritual understanding due to bad association
manaḥ
the mind
śamam
peaceful
vyadhāt
made.
Because of his association with perfect, unalloyed devotees who had nothing to do with anything material, Prahlāda Mahārāja constantly engaged in the service of the Lord’s lotus feet. By seeing his bodily features when he was in perfect ecstasy, persons very poor in spiritual understanding became purified. In other words, Prahlāda Mahārāja bestowed upon them transcendental bliss.
Purport

Apparently Prahlāda Mahārāja was placed in circumstances in which he was always tortured by his father. In such material conditions, one cannot have an undisturbed mind, but since bhakti is unconditional ( ahaituky apratihatā ), Prahlāda Mahārāja was never disturbed by the chastisements of Hiraṇyakaśipu. On the contrary, the bodily symptoms of his ecstatic love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead turned the minds of his friends, who had also been born in atheistic families. Instead of being disturbed by the torments of his father, Prahlāda influenced these friends and cleansed their minds. A devotee is never contaminated by material conditions, but persons subjected to material conditions can become spiritually advanced and blissful upon seeing the behavior of a pure devotee.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
His bad associates become absorbed in the Lord and experienced the highest bliss by their association with a devotee who had nothing to do with anything material and by engaging in the service of the Lord's lotus feet, How could Prahlāda have such steady bhakti in the bad of association of Hiraṇyakaśipu and others? By his association, his boyhood associates, who were also bad association, become successful. Why was there no danger of him having bad association? The minds of those who were bad association became śama. The Lord says śamo man-niṣṭhatā buddheḥ: absorbing the intelligence in me constitutes śama. (SB 11.19.36) The Prahlāda made others absorb their minds in the Lord.
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