Text 46]
Dhruva Mahārāja Returns Home
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bowed;  mātarau —to his two mothers;  śīrṣṇā —with his head;  sat-kṛtaḥ —was honored;  sat-jana —of the nobles;  agraṇīḥ —the foremost.
TRANSLATION
Then Dhruva Mahārāja, the foremost of all nobles, first of all offered his obeisances at the feet of his father and was honored by his father with various questions. He then bowed his head at the feet of his two mothers.
PURPORT
It may be questioned why Dhruva Mahārāja offered his respect not only to his mother but also to his stepmother, due to whose insults he had to leave home. The answer is that after achieving perfection by self-realization and seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face, Dhruva Mahārāja was completely freed from all contamination of material desire. Feelings of insult or honor in this material world are never perceived by a devotee. Lord Caitanya therefore says that one has to be humbler than the grass, and, He recommends, more tolerant than the tree, to execute devotional service. Dhruva Mahārāja, therefore, has in this verse been described as  saj-janāgraṇīḥ , the foremost of noble men. The pure devotee is the noblest of all, and he has no feelings of animosity towards anyone. Duality due to animosity is a creation of this material world. There is no such thing in the spiritual world, which is the absolute reality.
TEXT 46
सुरुचिस्तं समुत्थान्य पादावनतमर्थरूप् । परिष्वज्याह जीवेति नाष्पगद्गदया गिरा ॥४६॥
surucis tam samutthāpya pādāvanatam arbhakam pariṣvajyāha jīveti bāṣpa-gadgadayā girā
suruciḥ—Queen Suruci; tam—him; samutthāpya—having picked up; pāda-avanatam—fallen at her feet; arbhakam—the innocent boy; pariṣvajya—embracing; āha—she said; jīva—may you live long; iti—thus; bāṣpa—with tears; gadgadayā—choked up; girā—with words.
TRANSLATION
Suruci, the younger mother of Dhruva Mahārāja, seeing that the innocent boy had fallen at her feet, immediately picked him up, embracing