Text 5] Dhruva Maharaja Returns Home 365

PURPORT

Every devotee wants to chant the transcendental qualities of the Lord.
Devotees are always interested in hearing about the transcendental qualities
of the Lord, and they are always vager to glorify these qualities, but
sometimes they feel inconvenienced by humbleness. The Personality of
Godhead, being situated in everyone’s heart, specifically gives a devotee
intelligence to describe Iim. It is therefore understood that when a devotee
writes or speaks about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is dictated
by the Lord from within. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, Tenth Chap-
ter: to those who constantly engage in the transcendental loving service of
the Lord, the Lord, from within, dictates what to do next in order to serve
Him. When Dhruva Maharaja felt hesitant, not knowing how to describe
the Lord for want of sufficient experience, the Lord, out of His causeless
mercy, touched His conchshell to Dhruva’s forehead, and he was tran-
scendentally inspired. This transcendental inspiration is called brahma-
maya because when one is thus inspired, the sound he produces exactly
corresponds to the sound vibration of the Vedas. This is not the ordinary
sound vibration of this material world. Therefore the sound vibration of
the Hare Krsna mantra, although presented in the ordinary alphabet,
should not be taken as mundane or material.

TEXT 5

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sa vai tadaiva pratipaditam giram
daivirit parijnata-paratma-nirnayah

tam bhakti-bhavo ’bhyagrnad asatvaram
parisrutoru-sravasam dhruva-ksitih

sah—Dhruva Maharaja; vai—certainly; ladad—at that time; eva—just;
pralipdditam—having attained; giram—speech; daivim—transcendental;
parijidta— understood; para-dtma—of the Supreme Soul; nirnayah— the con-
clusion; lam—to the Lord; bhakti-bhavah—situated in devotional service;
abhyagrnal—offered prayers; asalvaram—without any hasty conclusion;
parisruta—widely known; uru-sravasam—whose fame; dhruva-ksitih—
Dhruva, whose planet would not be annihilated.
