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for everything of Visnu’s is as good as Lord Visnu. Dhruva Maharaja knew
all this very well, as a pure Vaisnava, and he offered his respects to the
associates and to the plane before riding in it. But in the meantime, his
body changed into spiritual existence, and therefore it was illuminating
like molten gold. In this way he also became one with the other para-
phernalia of Visnuloka.

Mayavadi philosophers cannot imagine how this oneness can be achieved
even in different varieties. Their idea of oneness is that there is no variety.
Therefore they have become impersonalists. As Sigumara, Vignuloka or
Dhruvaloka are completely different from this material world, so a Visnu
temple within this world is also completely different from this material
world. As soon as we are in a temple we should know very well that we
are situated differently from the material world. In the temple, Lord Visnu,
His throne, His room and everything associated with the temple are tran-
scendental. The three modes, sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna, have
no entrance into the temple. It is said, therefore, that to live in the forest
isin the mode of goodness, to live in the city is in the mode of passion, and
to live in a brothel, liquor shop or slaughterhouse is in the mode of ignor-
ance. But to live in the temple means to live in Vaikunthaloka. Everything
in the temple is as worshipable as Lord Visnu or Krsna.

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TAMA: TA TAMARA |
TANGA Te TAT MVTeET TH Rell
tadottanapadah putro
dadarsantakam agatam
mrtyor mirdhni padam dattva
arurohadbhutam grham

tada—then; uttdnapadah—of King Uttanapada; putrah—son; dadarsa—
could see; antakam—death personified; dgatam—approached him; mrtyoh
mirdhni—on the head of death; padam—feet; dattva—placing; aruroha—
got up; adbhutam—wonderful; grham—on the airplane which resembled a
big house.

TRANSLATION

When Dhruva Maharaja was attempting to get on the transcendental

plane, he saw death personified approach him. Not caring for death, how-
