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Dhruva Mahārāja Returns Home
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PURPORT
Dhruva Mahārāja repented because he came to the Lord to render devotional service for material profit. He here condemns his attitude. Only due to gross lack of knowledge does one worship the Lord for material profit or for sense gratification. The Lord is like a desire tree. Anyone can have whatever he desires from the Lord, but people in general do not know what kind of benediction they should ask from Him. Happiness derived from the touch of skin, or sensuous happiness, is present in the life of hogs and dogs. Such happiness is very insignificant. If a devotee worships the Lord for such insignificant happiness, he must be considered devoid of all knowledge.
TEXT 10
या निर्वृतिस्तनुभूतां तव पादपद्म- 
    ध्यानाद्भवजनकथाश्रवणेन वा स्यात् । 
    सा ब्रह्मणि स्वमहिमन्यपि नाथ मा भूत् 
    किं त्वन्तकासिलुलितात्पततां विमानात् ।१०।
yā nirvṛtis tanu-bhṛtām tava pāda-padma- 
    dhyānād bhavaj-jana-kathā-śravaṇena vā syāt 
    sā brahmaṇi sva-mahimany api nātha mā bhūt 
    kim tv antakāsi-lulitāt patatām vimānāt
yā—that which; nirvṛtiḥ—blissfulness; tanu-bhṛtām—of the embodied; 
    tava—your; pāda-padma—lotus feet; dhyānāt—from meditating upon; 
    bhavat-jana—from Your intimate devotees; kathā—topics; śravaṇena—by 
    hearing; vā—or; syāt—comes into being; sā—that bliss; brahmaṇi—in the 
    impersonal Brahman; sva-mahimani—Your own magnificence; api—even; 
    nātha—O Lord; mā—never; bhūt—exists; kim—what to speak of; tu—then; 
    antaka-asi—by the sword of death; lulitāt—being destroyed; patatām— 
    of those who fall down; vimānāt—from their airplanes.
TRANSLATION
My Lord, the transcendental bliss derived from meditating upon Your lotus feet or hearing about Your glories from pure devotees is so unlimited that it is far beyond the stage of brahmānanda, wherein one thinks himself merged in the impersonal Brahman as one with the Supreme. Since brahmānanda is also defeated by the transcendental bliss derived