Text 11] Description of the Descendants of Dhruva Mahārāja
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jaḍa —foolish;  andha —blind;  badhira —deaf;  unmatta —mad;  mūka —dumb;  ākṛtiḥ —appearance;  a-tat —not like that;  matiḥ —his intelligence;  lakṣitaḥ —he was seen;  pathi —on the road;  bālānām —by the less intelligent;  praśānta —calmed;  arciḥ —with flames;  iva —like;  analaḥ —fire.
TRANSLATION
Utkala appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish, blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He remained like fire covered with ashes, without blazing flames.
PURPORT
In order to avoid contradiction, botheration and unfavorable situations created by materialistic persons, a great saintly person like Jaḍa Bharata or Utkala remains silent. The less intelligent consider such saintly persons to be mad, deaf or dumb. Factually, an advanced devotee avoids speaking with persons who are not in devotional life, but to those who are in devotional life he speaks in friendship, and he speaks to the innocent for their enlightenment. For all practical purposes, the whole world is full of nondevotees, and so one kind of very advanced devotee is called  bhajanānandī . Those who are  goṣṭhānandī , however, preach to increase the number of devotees. But even such preachers also avoid opposing elements who are unfavorably disposed towards spiritual life.
TEXT 11
मत्वा तं जडमुन्मत्तं कुलवृद्धाः समन्त्रिणः।  
 वत्सरं भूपतिं चक्रुर्यवीयांसं भ्रमेः सुतम् ॥११॥
matvā tam jaḍam unmattam 
    kula-vṛddhāḥ samantriṇaḥ 
    vatsaram bhūpatim cakrur 
    yavīyāmsam bhrameḥ sutam
matvā —thinking;  tam —Utkala;  jaḍam —without intelligence;  unmattam —mad;  kula-vṛddhāḥ —elderly members of the family;  sa-mantriṇaḥ —with the ministers;  vatsaram —Vatsara;  bhū-patim —ruler of the world;  cakruḥ —they made;  yavīyāmsam —younger;  bhrameḥ —of Bhrami;  sutam —son.
TRANSLATION
For this reason the ministers and all the elderly members of the family thought Utkala to be without intelligence and, in fact, mad. Thus his