Text 4] Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead 49]
PURPORT

When the master of the treasury addressed him as sinless, Dhruva
Maharaja, considering himself responsible for killing so many Yaksas,
might have thought himself otherwise. Kuvera, however, assured him that
factually he did not kill any of the Yaksas; therefore, he was not at all sin-
ful. 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 Yaksas,” 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 annihi-
lation and generation. You are not responsible for such actions.”

TEXT 4
ae afearal drarargera ft
AN TATATR ATE TIT TTT Uv
aham tvam ity apartha dhir
ajfanat purusasya hi
svapnivabhaty atad-dhyanad
yaya bandha-viparyayau

aham~—I; tvam—you; iti—thus; apartha—misconceived ; dhih—intelligence;
ajiidnat—from ignorance; purusasya—of a person, hi—certainly; svapni—a
dream; iva—like; abhati—appears; a-tat-dhydnat—from the bodily concept
of life; yaya—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, Krsna, 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 dis-
tinction, 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,
