Text 58] Dhruva Maharaja Leaves Home for the Forest 337

as an animal, as a human being or as a demigod. This kind of thinking is
offensive. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has condemned the Mayavadis as
offensive to the Supreme Personality of Godhead because of their
thinking that the Lord and the conditioned living entities are one and the
same.

Narada advises Dhruva to meditate on the pastimes of the Lord, which
is as good as the meditation of concentrating one’s mind on the form of
the Lord. As meditation on any form of the Lord is valuable, so is
chanting of different names of the Lord, such as Hari, Govinda and
Narayana. But in this age we are especially advised to chant the Hare
Krsna mantra as enunciated in the sdstra: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna
Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

TEXT 58

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paricarya bhagavato
yavatyah purva-sevitah

ta mantra-hrdayenaiva
prayujijyan mantra-mirtaye

paricaryah—service; bhagavatah—of the Personality of Godhead;
yavatyah—as they are prescribed (as above mentioned); piirva-sevitah—
recommended or done by previous dcaryas; tah—that; mantra—hymns;
hrdayena—within the heart; eva—certainly; prayufijyat—one should wor-
ship; mantra-mirtaye—who is nondifferent from the mantra.

TRANSLATION

One should follow in the footsteps of previous devotees regarding how
to worship the Supreme Lord with the prescribed paraphernalia, or one
should offer worship within the heart by reciting the mantra to the
Personality of Godhead, who is nondifferent from the mantra.

PURPORT

It is recommended here that even if one cannot arrange to worship the
forms of the Lord with all recommended paraphernalia, one can simply
think about the form of the Lord and mentally offer everything recom-
mended in the §astras, including flowers, candana pulp, conchshell,
umbrella, fan and camara, One can meditate upon offering and chant the
