Text 4] Dhruva Mahārāja Goes Back to Godhead
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PURPORT
When the master of the treasury addressed him as sinless, Dhruva Mahārāja, considering himself responsible for killing so many Yakṣas, might have thought himself otherwise. Kuvera, however, assured him that factually he did not kill any of the Yakṣas; therefore, he was not at all sinful. He did his duty as a king, as it is ordered by the laws of nature. “Nor should you think that your brother was killed by the Yakṣas,” said Kuvera. “He died or was killed in due course of time by the laws of nature. Eternal time, one of the features of the Lord, is ultimately responsible for annihilation and generation. You are not responsible for such actions.”
TEXT 4
अहं त्वमित्यपार्था धीरज्ञानात्पुरुषस्य हि । स्वामीवामात्यतद्ध्यानाद्यया बन्धविपर्ययौ ॥ ४ ॥
aham tvam ity apārthā dhīr ajñānāt puruṣasya hi svāpnīvābhāty atad-dhyānād yayā bandha-viparyayau
aham—I; tvam—you; iti—thus; apārthā—misconceived; dhīḥ—intelligence; ajñānāt—from ignorance; puruṣasya—of a person; hi—certainly; svāpni—a dream; iva—like; ābhāti—appears; a-tat-dhyānāt—from the bodily concept of life; yayā—by which; bandha—bondage; viparyayau—and misery.
TRANSLATION
Misidentification of oneself and others as “I” and “you” on the basis of the bodily concept of life is a product of ignorance. This bodily concept is the cause of repeated birth and death, and it makes us go on continuously in material existence.
PURPORT
The conception of “I” and “you,”  aham tvam , as separate from one another, is due to our forgetfulness of our eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa, is the central point, and all of us are His parts and parcels, just as hands and legs are parts and parcels of the whole body. When we actually come to this understanding of being eternally related to the Supreme Lord, this distinction, which is based on the bodily concept of life, cannot exist. The same example can be cited herewith: the hand is the hand, and the leg is the leg, but when both of them engage in the service of the whole body,