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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 9]
practicing devotional service. In other words, every one of us who is engaged in devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be completely free from all material aspirations. Otherwise we will have to lament like Dhruva Mahārāja.
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मतिर्विदूषिता देवैः पतद्भिरसहिष्णुमिः । यो नारदवचस्तथ्यं नाग्राहिषमसत्तमः ॥३२॥
matir vidūṣitā devaiḥ patadbhir asahiṣṇubhiḥ yo nārada-vacas tathyam nāgrāhiṣam asattamaḥ
matiḥ—intelligence; vidūṣitā—contaminated; devaiḥ—by the demigods; patadbhiḥ—who will fall down; asahiṣṇubhiḥ—intolerant; yaḥ—I who; nārada—of the great sage Nārada; vacaḥ—of the instructions; tathyam—the truth; na—not; agrāhiṣam—could accept; asat-tamaḥ—the most wretched.
TRANSLATION
Since all the demigods who are situated in the higher planetary system will have to come down again, they are all envious of my being elevated to Vaikuṇṭhaloka by devotional service. These intolerant demigods have dissipated my intelligence, and only for this reason could I not accept the genuine benediction of the instructions of Sage Nārada.
PURPORT
As shown by many instances in the Vedic literature, when a person undergoes severe austerities, the demigods become very much perturbed because they are always afraid of losing their posts as the predominating deities of the heavenly planets. It is known to them that their position in the higher planetary system is not permanent, as it is stated in the  Bhagavad-gītā , Ninth Chapter. It is said in the  Gītā  that after exhausting the results of their pious activities, all the demigods who are inhabitants of the higher planetary system have to come back again to this earth.
It is a fact that the demigods control the different activities of the limbs of our bodies. Factually we are not free even in moving our eyelids. Everything is controlled by them. Dhruva Mahārāja's conclusion is that these demigods, being envious of his superior position in devotional service,