After killing demon
Hiranyakasyapu, Bhagwaan Narsimh said to devotee Prahlaad,
'I am very
much pleased with you. Let everything good happen to you. Let me know
wish. I complete every of your demand. If I am not pleased I cannot
be seen. But once anyone seeks me he becomes extremely peaceful
because all his burning inside vanishes. I am the one who can fulfill
all of your wishes. All ascetics try to please me.'
Listening to this
Prahlad, who was selfless devotee of God, smilingly replied,
'O!
Lord! I am attached to worldly pleasures from beginning of my life.
Please do not allure me into them. I am afraid of them because they
are the cause of sufferings and bondage and hence I have taken solace
to you.
The reason behind your
asking me to ask for boon seems to test my devotion. Because the
one who wants satisfy his wish from his master is no servant and the
one who fulfills wish of his servant to get served is no master.
The give and take
relation is business. I am your selfless servant and you are my
master who does not demand anything from me. I am not the servant
like the one who serves King for selfish motives..
If at all you want me
to grant a boon then bless me with such a heart that will not desire
anything from you. Because when desire arises in the mind it destroys
senses, body, mind, intellect, life, courage, religion, modesty,
power, aura, memory and truth. (Quite a long list!!) Not only that
if some one gets rid of desires he achieves Godly form.
This is selfless love
for God.