Text 24] Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead 515

service can obtain, in due course of time, the same perfection of the human
form of life.

TEXT 23
TTT ATTA
MT MUsd Tat A Te atsafea: 3g |
CPM EEC CE CICA MEET

sunanda-nandav ticatuh
bho bho rajan subhadram te

vacam no ‘vahitah srnu
yah pajica-varsas tapasd

bhavan devam atitrpat

sunanda-nandau iicatuh—Sunanda and Nanda said; bhoh bhoh rajan—O
dear King; su-bhadram— good fortune; te—unto you; vacam—words; nah—
our; avahitah—attentively; §rnu—hear; yah—who; paiica-varsah—five years
old; tapaséd—by austerity; bhavan—yourself; devam—the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead ;atitrpat—greatly satisfied.

TRANSLATION

The two confidential associates of Lord Visnu, Nanda and Sunanda, said:
Dear King, let there be all good fortune unto you. Please attentively hear
what we shall say. When you were only five years old, you underwent
severe austerities, and you thereby greatly satisfied the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.

PURPORT

What was possible for Dhruva Maharaja is possible for anyone. Any five-
year-old child can be trained, and within a very short time his life will be-
come successful by realization of Krsna consciousness. Unfortunately, this
training is lacking all over the world. It is necessary for the leaders of the
Krsna consciousness movement to start educational institutions in different
parts of the world to train children, starting at the age of five years. Thus
such children will not become hippies or spoiled children of society, but
they can all become devotees of the Lord. The face of the world will then
change automatically.

TEXT 24

Tataarraqat se Ux |
qnaifate aera Ad cat aTAITA Uv
