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On the Way to Kṛṣṇa
supply our order, we say that there is no God. That is the effect of praying for material things.
In this connection there is a story of a little boy, about five years old, named Dhruva, who belonged to a royal family. In the course of time his father, the king, tired of his mother and deposed her as his queen. He then took another woman as queen, and she became stepmother to the boy. She was very envious of him, and one day, as Dhruva was sitting on the father's knee, she insulted him. "Oh you cannot sit on the lap of your father," she said, "because you are not born of me." She dragged Dhruva from his father's lap and the boy became very angry. He was the son of a  kṣatriya , and  kṣatriyas  are notorious for their quick tempers. Dhruva took this to be a great insult, and he went to his mother who had been deposed.
"Dear Mother," he said, "my stepmother has insulted me by dragging me from my father's lap."
"Dear son," the mother replied, "what can I do? I am helpless, and your father no longer cares for me."
"Well, how can I take revenge?" the boy asked.
"My dear boy, you are helpless. Only if God helps you can you take revenge."
"Oh, where is God?" Dhruva asked enthusiastically.
"I understand so many sages go to the jungle and forest to see God," the mother replied. "They undergo great penances and austerities in order to find God there."
At once Dhruva went to the forest and began asking the tiger and the elephant, "Oh, are you God?