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Dhruva Mahārāja Leaves Home for the Forest
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have been very surprised when she learned that Dhruva Mahārāja, by concentrating constantly on the Supreme Personality of Godhead within his heart, could press down the entire earth, like an elephant who presses down the boat on which it is loaded.
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तस्मिष्ममिष्यायति विश्वमात्मनो द्वारं निरुच्यासुमनन्यथा धिया । लोका निरुच्छ्वासनिपीडिता भृशं सलोकपालाः शरणं ययुर्हरिम् ॥८०॥
tasminn abhidhyāyati viśvam ātmano dvāram nirudhyāsum ananyayā dhiyā lokā nirucchvāsa-nipīditā bhṛśam saloka-pālāḥ śaraṇam yayur harim
tasmin—Dhruva Mahārāja; abhidhyāyati—when meditating with full concentration; viśvam ātmanaḥ—the total body of the universe; dvāram—the holes; nirudhyā—closed; asum—the life air; ananyayā—without being diverted; dhiyā—meditation; lokāḥ—all the planets; nirucchvāsa—having stopped breathing; nipīditāḥ—thus being suffocated; bhṛśam—very soon; saloka-pālāḥ—all the great demigods from different planets; śaraṇam—shelter; yayuḥ—took; harim—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
When Dhruva Mahārāja became practically one in heaviness with Lord Viṣṇu, the total consciousness, due to his fully concentrating and closing all the holes of his body, the total universal breathing became choked up, and all the big demigods in all the planetary systems felt suffocated and thus took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
When hundreds of persons are sitting in an airplane, although they remain as individual units, they each share in the total force of the airplane, which runs at thousands of miles per hour; similarly, when unit energy is identified with the service of the total energy, the unit energy becomes as powerful as the total energy. As explained in the previous verse, Dhruva Mahārāja, because of his spiritual advancement, became almost the total heaviness, and thus he pressed down the whole earth. Moreover,