Mahā-bhāgavata, they know always; they never forget this position. And those who are fallen souls, conditioned souls, they do not know it, so they have to be raised to that stage. That stage how? So he is also nitya-siddha. Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti, as soon as one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious fully, he becomes nitya-siddha again. So either you come by sādhana-bhakti or naturally, the . . . When you come to the ultimate stage, everyone is nitya-siddha. So nitya-siddha, those who come from Vaikuṇṭha, they are never fallen, never forgets Kṛṣṇa, that is nitya-siddha, and by the teachings of nitya-siddha mahā-bhāgavata, if one follows and then becomes by sādhana-siddha, by regulative principle, they also become nitya-siddha, later on. And when one becomes nitya-siddha again, there is no difference between this living entity and that living entity. Samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu.
So,
- tatheti śanakai rājan
- mahā-bhāgavato 'rbhakaḥ
- upetya bhuvi kāyena
- nanāma vidhṛtāñjaliḥ
- (SB 7.9.4)
If you simply learn from Prahlāda Mahārāja, simply offer your obeisances, as under the instruction of Brahmā, if you follow the guru . . . Brahmā is the guru, guru's guru. Prahlāda Mahārāja's guru was Narada, and his guru was Brahmā. So our sampradāya is Brahmā, Brahma-sampradāya. There are four sampradāyas. We belong to this Brahma-sampradāya. So sampradāya-vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā (Padma Purāṇa). We have to accept one sampradāya, paramparā, and if we follow, just like Prahlāda Mahārāja, exactly under the order of Brahmā and Narada, immediately fell down, so everyone can do it. Here is Kṛṣṇa. So everyone, if he follows mahājana . . . Brahmā is the first mahājana. Svayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ (SB 6.3.20). Brahmā, his another name is Svayambhū. These are mahājanas. Svayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ, Kapila, Manu, Prahlāda. Prahlāda is also mahājana. Prahlāda, Janaka, Bhīṣma, bali vaiyāsakiḥ vayam. So Prahlāda Mahārāja is mahājana. He is mahā-bhāgavata. Don't think that he is a little boy. That is his pastime to show us how a little boy can become mahā-bhāgavata, how a little boy can be the eternal associate of Kṛṣṇa, and how he can preach. That is Prahlāda Mahārāja.