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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 8]
by such spiritual power his unit body became the total body of the universe. Thus when he closed the holes of his unit body to firmly concentrate his mind on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all the units of the universe—namely all the living entities, including the big demigods—felt the pressure of suffocation, as if their breathing were being choked. Therefore they all took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead because they were perplexed as to what had happened.
This example of Dhruva Mahārāja's closing the holes of his personal body and thereby closing the breathing holes of the total universe clearly indicates that a devotee, by his personal devotional service, can influence all the people of the whole world to become devotees of the Lord. If there is only one pure devotee in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he can change the total consciousness of the world into Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is not very difficult to understand if we study the behavior of Dhruva Mahārāja.
TEXT 81
देवा ऊचुः
नैवं विदामो भगवन् प्राणरोधं
चराचरस्याखिलसच्चधाम्रः ।
विधेहि तन्नो शजिनाद्रिमोक्षं
प्राप्ता वयं त्वां शरणं शरण्यम् ॥८१॥
devā ūcuḥ
naivam vidāmo bhagavan prāṇa-rodham
carācarasyākhila-sattva-dhāmnaḥ
vidhehi tan no vṛjinād vimokṣam
prāptā vayam tvām śaraṇam śaraṇyam
devāḥ ūcuḥ—all the demigods said; na—not; evam—thus; vidāmaḥ—we can understand; bhagavan—O Personality of Godhead; prāṇa-rodham—how we feel our breathing choked; cara—moving; acarasya—not moving; akhila—universal; sattva—existence; dhāmnaḥ—the reservoir of; vidhehi—kindly do the needful; tat—therefore; naḥ—our; vṛjināt—from the danger; vimokṣam—liberation; prāptāḥ—approaching; vayam—all of us; tvām—unto You; śaraṇam—shelter; śaraṇyam—worthy to be taken shelter of.
TRANSLATION
The demigods said: Dear Lord, You are the refuge of all moving and nonmoving living entities. We feel all living entities to be suffocating,