Text 80] Dhruva Maharaja Leaves Home for the Forest 355
have been very surprised when she learned that Dhruva Maharaja, by
concentrating constantly on the Supreme Personality of Godhead within
his heart, could press down the entire earth, like an elephant who presses
down the boat on which it is loaded.
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tasminn abhidhyayati visvam atmano
dvaram nirudhyasum ananyaya dhiya
loka nirucchvasa-nipidita bhrsam
saloka-palah saranam yayur harim
tasmin—Dhruva Maharaja; abhidhydyati-when meditating with full
concentration; visvam dtmanah—the total body of the universe; dvaram—
the holes; nirudhya—closed; asum—the life air; ananyayd—without be-
ing diverted; dhiya—meditation; lokah—all the planets; nirucchvasa—
having stopped breathing; nipiditah—thus being suffocated; bhrsam—very
soon; saloka-palah—all the great demigods from different planets; sarajam—
shelter; yayuh—took; harim—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
When Dhruva Maharaja became practically one in heaviness with Lord
Visnu, the total consciousness, due to his fully concentrating and closing
all the holes of his body, the total universal breathing became choked up,
and all the big demigods in all the planetary systems felt suffocated and
thus took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
When hundreds of persons are sitting in an airplane, although they
remain as individual units, they each share in the total force of the air-
plane, which runs at thousands of miles per hour; similarly, when unit
energy is identified with the service of the total energy, the unit energy be-
comes as powerful as the total energy. As explained in the previous verse,
Dhruva Maharaja, because of his spiritual advancement, became almost
the total heaviness, and thus he pressed down the whole earth. Moreover,
