Verse 24
Take your father's place· Verses 20–24
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20With their whole selves they do harm to nothing among the ranks of beings, high or low, lord of the Daityas, and their longing has gone into being mine. 21There come to be men in the world who are devoted to me and follow after you. You are, in truth, the pattern of all who are devoted to me. 22Do all the rites for the dead for your father, who has been made clean altogether. By the touch of my body, dear one, he will go to the worlds where the children are good. 23And take your father's place, as those who speak of Brahman have laid down. Setting your mind on me, dear one, do your works, holding to me. 24Prahlada did for his father what belongs to the passing on, king, just as the Bhagavan had said; and he was consecrated by the best of the twice-born.