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Devotee: ...sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhutākhilāśubhaḥ [break] [continues leading chanting of verse, but he and devotees stumble over pronunciation]

Prabhupāda: Tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ.

Devotee: [chants, but devotees still having problems with pronunciation]

Prabhupāda: You can divide the syllables = sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ. You cannot pronounce combinedly, just divide. Sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ, like that. Anyway, …

Pradyumna: saḥ---he [Prahlāda Mahārāja]; tat-kara-sparśa---because of being touched on the head by the lotus hand of Nṛsiṁha-deva; dhuta---being cleansed; akhila---all; …

Translation = "By the touch of Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva's hand on Prahlāda Mahārāja's head, Prahlāda was completely freed of all material …

Prabhupāda:

sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhutākhilāśubhaḥ sapady abhivyakta-parātma-darśanaḥ tat-pāda-padmaṁ hṛdi nivṛto dadhau hṛṣyat-tanuḥ klinna-hṛd-aśru-locanaḥ

[SB 7.9.6]

So Prahlāda Mahārāja, tat-kara-sparśa, "touch of the lotus palm of Nṛsiṁha-deva," the same palm where there is nail. Tava kara …

So that, the same kara kamala, was put on the head of Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlādāhlāda-dāyine. Prahlāda Mahārāja was feeling, "Oh, …

Devotees: Jaya.

Prabhupāda: Otherwise there was no spiritual knowledge. They do not know. That's a fact.

In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said,

bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā

[Bg. 7.4]

These materialistic persons---scientists, physists and other speculators---they're dealing with these elements, material---earth, water, fire, air, ether, up to mind, psychology, …

So Kṛṣṇa gives information in the Bhagavad-gītā, apareyam: "These elements, even up to mind, intelligence, ego," bhinnā, "they are My …

So it is very difficult, especially in this age. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo [SB 1.1.10]. They are... Mandāḥ means they are not …

So this perfection, as Prahlāda Mahārāja had immediately by touching the Supreme Personality of..., we can also have. There is …