358 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 8

§ri bhagavan uvaca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead replied; ma
bhaista—do not be afraid; balam—the boy Dhruva; tapasah—by his severe
austerity; duratyayat—strongly determined; nivartayisye—I shall ask him
to stop this; pratiyata—you can return; sva-dhama—your own respective
homes; yatah—from whom; hi—certainly; vat—your; prana-nirodha—chok-
ing the life air;asit—happened; auttanapadih—on account of the son of King
Uttanapada; mayi—unto Me; sangata-atma—fully absorbed in thought of
Me.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear demigods, do not
be perturbed by this. It is due to the severe austerity and full determination
of the son of King Uttanapada, who is now fully absorbed in thought of
Me. He has obstructed the universal breathing process. You can safely
return to your respective homes. I shall stop this boy in his severe acts of
austerities, and you will be saved from this situation.

PURPORT

Here one word, sangatatma, is misinterpreted by the Mayavad
philosophers, who say that the self of Dhruva Maharaja became one with
the Supreme Self, the Personality of Godhead. The Mayavadi philosophers
want to prove by this word that the Supersoul and the individual soul
become united in this way and that after such unification the individual
soul has no separate existence. But here it is clearly said by the Supreme
Lord that Dhruva Maharaja was so absorbed in meditation on the thought
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that He Himself, the universal
consciousness, was attracted to Dhruva. In order to please the demigods,
He wanted to go Himself to Dhruva Maharaja to stop him from this severe
austerity. ‘The Mayavadi philosophers’ conclusion that the Supersoul and
the individual soul become united is not supported by this statement.
Rather, the Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead, wanted to stop Dhruva
Maharaja from this severe austerity.

By pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one pleases everyone,
just as by watering the root of a tree one satisfies every branch, twig and
leaf of the tree. If one can attract the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
naturally he attracts the whole universe because Krsna is the supreme
cause of the universe. All the demigods were afraid of being totally
vanquished by suffocation, but the Personality of Godhead assured them
that Dhruva Maharaja was a great devotee of the Lord and was not about
to annihilate everyone in the universe. A devotee is never envious of other
living entities.
