In plain words
Even as they pushed him off the mountains, he remembered Him, saying, ‘Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa.’ Even when they took him out in boats and plunged him into the middle of the sea: Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa. Even when they had him trampled by elephants in rut: Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa. Even when they had him bitten by poisonous snakes: Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa. Because he remembered Nārāyaṇa without ceasing, all these sorrows went far from him. So Bhakti for God makes you forget your sorrows. It brings about the principle of divinity. All the power of such a Prahlāda, so much of it, he went on gaining through his own Bhakti alone. And not he alone. Sakkubāi. To bear the pain her mother-in-law kept inflicting and the hardships her husband caused, she kept calling the Name of Raṅga to mind, saying, “Raṅgā! Pāṇḍuraṅgā!” Through the Name of God alone she went on bearing all these hardships and overcoming them. Cakradhāra. He too endured hardships of this kind, and by remembering the Name of God he forgot all his sorrow. This sacred power is in the Name of God. In any time of sorrow whatever, it makes you forget the sorrow. It brings forth Ānanda. It makes enthusiasm well up. It makes divinity shine forth. So what man needs today is Ānanda itself. For the ending of sorrow and the gaining of Ānanda, we must make friends with divinity. There are so many friends in the world. What are friends for? Hellow, hellow. How are you, good bye good bye. God is not a friend of that kind. God is always right with us, right beside us, right in our home, right in our eye. It is precisely because they have pushed away such a true Friend, an eternal Friend, a Friend of Prema, that people have fallen into enmity. What desire has come over the world today? The desire for God has gone far away. Desire for wealth, desire for power: through these desires man is losing his life. How long does this wealth last? It comes, and it goes. This is just what Śaṅkarācārya said. “Mā kuru dhana jana yauvvana garvaṃ harati nimeṣāt kālaḥ sarvam”: these studies and this wealth are all fleeting. So Śaṅkara went to those who studied grammar thinking themselves scholars, and taught them.