In plain words
The boy had grown up well. He was looking fine. The father called him close. ‘My dear son! Are you studying properly?’ he asked, inquiring after his welfare. ‘Father! I am studying happily,’ he said. ‘Can you recite a little poem, something of what your teachers taught you?’ said Hiraṇyakaśipu.
My teachers have made me study; I have studied the chief śāstras of Dharma and artha; many are the things I have studied; the whole secret within all learning I have learnt, Father!
So he said. His father told him to say what that secret was. ‘Hari Om!’ Up blazed the fire in Hiraṇyakaśipu. He went mad. He raged like a wild dancer at the teachers and at the child. Consider for yourselves the difference between this father and this son. The father hated Hari; Prahlāda loved Hari. In the world, many kinds of power and ability show themselves in each person. That is why what must be recognised in human nature is the Prema of God! Recognising this truth, do all your deeds. There is no fault in that. One who has Prema for God does not enter into evil acts. ‘Once you drink honey with delight, will bitterness taste good?’ To one who has truly seen sweet nectar, bitterness holds no appeal at all. One who has eaten dates has no liking for tamarind. It is only one who has not truly recognised the principle of God’s Prema who goes riding about on the objects of Prakṛti. If we recognise this Satya, this eternal, this purity, this principle, we will not desire the untrue and the transient at all.
Śānti fills only the heart that has no desires
Human life has not come merely for food and drink. It was not made for pleasures and riches. We must experience tyāga and yoga. That is the real secret. We must enter into deeds that help everyone.