Shloka 6
Dhruva’s Darśana, Transformative Prayers, and the Boon of the Dhruva-loka
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ध्रुव उवाच योऽन्त: प्रविश्य मम वाचमिमां प्रसुप्तां सञ्जीवयत्यखिलशक्तिधर: स्वधाम्ना । अन्यांश्च हस्तचरणश्रवणत्वगादीन् प्राणान्नमो भगवते पुरुषाय तुभ्यम् ॥ ६ ॥
dhruva uvāca yo ’ntaḥ praviśya mama vācam imāṁ prasuptāṁ sañjīvayaty akhila-śakti-dharaḥ sva-dhāmnā anyāṁś ca hasta-caraṇa-śravaṇa-tvag-ādīn prāṇān namo bhagavate puruṣāya tubhyam
Dhruva Mahārāja said: O my Lord, You are all-powerful. Entering within me, You awaken my sleeping power of speech and enliven my hands, feet, hearing, touch, all the senses, and the very life-air by the splendor of Your own abode. I offer my obeisances unto You, O Bhagavān, Supreme Person.
Dhruva Mahārāja could understand very easily the difference between his condition before and after attaining spiritual realization and seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face. He could understand that his life force and activities had been sleeping. Unless one comes to the spiritual platform, his bodily limbs, mind and other facilities within the body are understood to be sleeping. Unless one is spiritually situated, all his activities are taken as a dead man’s activities or ghostly activities. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has composed a song in which he addresses himself: “O living entity, get up! How long shall you sleep on the lap of māyā ? Now you have the opportunity of possessing a human form of body; now try to get up and realize yourself.” The Vedas also declare, “Get up! Get up! You have the opportunity, the boon of the human form of life — now realize yourself.” These are the Vedic injunctions.
FAQs
This verse states that Bhagavān enters within and enlivens dormant speech and also activates the life-airs and sense faculties, showing that all capacity ultimately depends on the Supreme Person.
After receiving the Lord’s darśana, Dhruva recognizes that even his ability to speak and function arises from the Lord within, so he bows in gratitude and devotion to Bhagavān, the source of all power.
Use your voice and senses consciously in service—truthful speech, attentive hearing of sacred wisdom, and disciplined actions—remembering that your abilities are gifts sustained by the Divine.