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Pradyumna: Translation = "My dear friends, O sons of the demons, it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge …

Prabhupāda: Purport also.

Pradyumna: "Prahlāda Mahārāja has maintained the philosophical point of view that one should give up the dark well of family …

Prabhupāda:

yato na kaścit kva ca kutracid vā dīnaḥ svam ātmānam alam samarthaḥ vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra- krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ

tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito 'pavargaḥ

[SB 7.6.17-18]

So visargaḥ and apavargaḥ. Visargaḥ means creation. So the important fact is that if we are attached to the material …

anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu- śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā

[Brs. 1.1.11]

So the back to home, back to Godhead, we are trying. That is our ambition. But if we have got …

But that is also within this material world, within this material world. Yānti deva-vratā devān [Bg. 9.25]. We can go …

Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja is very serious that visargaḥ, stop this visargaḥ. Go back, directly to Kṛṣṇa. Don't go even in …

So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that "If you, my dear daitya friends..." He was talking with his friends. They were born …

akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena yajeta param puruṣaṁ

[SB 2.3.10]

Even if you have got desire to enjoy within this material world, still you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa will …

So Prahlāda Mahārāja warns his friends that if we become attached to this sense gratification, then vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo …

So we have to give up. So there is therefore regulative principle. At least, no illicit sex. Get yourself married, …

We are therefore making different centers to give everyone the opportunity to have the association of devotee. As far as …