Text 25] Dhruva Maharaja Returns Home 393

you will be able to enjoy the blessings of material happiness in this life,
and at the time of your death you will be able to remember Me.

PURPORT

The most important factor in this verse is the Lord’s instructions
regarding how to remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead at the
end of life. Ante ndardyana-smrtih: the result of whatever we do in
executing spiritual activities is successful if we can remember Narayana,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This program of constant remem-
brance can be disturbed by many things, but Dhruva Maharaja’s life would
be so pure, as assured by the Lord Himself, that he would never forget
Him. Thus at the time of his death he would remember the Supreme
Lord, and before his death he would enjoy this material world, not by
sense gratification, but by performing great sacrifices. As stated in the
Vedas, when one performs great sacrifices he must give in charity, not only
to the brahmanas, but also to the ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. It is
assured here that Dhruva Maharaja would be able to perform such activi-
ties. In this age of Kali, however, the great sacrifice is the performance of
sankirtana-yajia. Our Krsna consciousness movement is designed to teach
people (and to learn ourselves) the exact instruction of the Personality of
Godhead. In this way we shall continue to perform the sankirtana-yajiia
continually and continually chant the Hare Krsna mantra. Then certainly
at the end of our lives we shall be able to remember Krsna, and our
program of life will be successful. In this age, distribution of prasada has
replaced distribution of money. No one has sufficient money to distribute,
but if we distribute krsna-prasdda as far as possible, it is more valuable
than the distribution of money.

TEXT 25

Tat Tes HT AITIEAAHTY |
TUS Ad ATMA Ta: UR4II

tato gantasi mat-sthanam
sarva-loka-namas-krtam

uparistad rsibhyas tvam
yato navartate gatah

tatah—thereafter; gantasi—you will go; mat-sthanam—to My abode;
sarva-loka—by all planetary systems;namah-krtam—offered obeisances to;
uparistat—situated higher; rsibh yah—than the planetary systems of the rsis;
