Text 11] Description of the Descendants of Dhruva Maharaja 555

jada—foolish; andha—blind; badhira—deaf; unmatta—mad; mika—dumb;
akrtih—appearance; a-tat—not like that; matih—his intelligence; laksitah—
he was seen; pathi—on the road; balanadm—by the less intelligent; prasanta—
calmed; arcih—with flames; iva—like; analah—fire.

TRANSLATION

Utkala appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish,
blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He remained
like fire covered with ashes, without blazing flames.

PURPORT

In order to avoid contradiction, botheration and unfavorable situations
created by materialistic persons, a great saintly person like Jada Bharata or
Utkala remains silent. The less intelligent consider such saintly persons to
be mad, deaf or dumb. Factually,an advanced devotee avoids speaking with
persons who are not in devotional life, but to those who are in devotional
life he speaks in friendship, and he speaks to the innocent for their enlight-
enment. For all practical purposes, the whole world is full of nondevotees,
and so one kind of very advanced devotee is called bhajananandi. Those
who are gosthanandi, however, preach to increase the number of devotees.
But even such preachers also avoid opposing elements who are unfavorably
disposed towards spiritual life.

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matvd tarn jadam unmattam
kula-urddhah samantrinah

vatsaram bhiipatim cakrur
yaviyamsam bhrameh sutam

matva—thinking; tam—Utkala; jadam—without intelligence; unmattam—
mad; kula-vrddhafi—elderly members of the family; sa-mantrinah—with the
ministers; vatsaram—Vatsara; bhi-patim—ruler of the world; cakruh—they
made; yaviyamsam—younger; bhrameh—of Bhrami; sutam—son.

TRANSLATION

For this reason the ministers and all the elderly members of the family
thought Utkala to be without intelligence and, in fact, mad. Thus his
