{"id":5466,"date":"2022-07-29T03:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2022-10-09T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T10:36:15","slug":"prayers-by-dhruva-maharaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/29\/prayers-by-dhruva-maharaj\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAYERS BY DHRUVA MAHARAJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dhruva Maharaja&#039;s Prayers\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yc4YQLCeXbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">dhruva uv\u0101ca <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">yo \u2019nta\u1e25 pravi\u015bya mama v\u0101cam im\u0101\u1e41 prasupt\u0101\u1e41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">sa\u00f1j\u012bvayaty akhila-\u015bakti-dhara\u1e25 sva-dh\u0101mn\u0101 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">any\u0101\u1e41\u015b ca hasta-cara\u1e47a-\u015brava\u1e47a-tvag-\u0101d\u012bn <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n namo bhagavate puru\u1e63\u0101ya tubhyam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhruva Mah\u0101r\u0101ja said: My dear Lord, You are all-powerful. After entering within me, You have enlivened all my sleeping senses \u2014 my hands, legs, ears, touch sensation, life force and especially my power of speech. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ekas tvam eva bhagavann idam \u0101tma-\u015bakty\u0101 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">m\u0101y\u0101khyayoru-gu\u1e47ay\u0101 mahad-\u0101dy-a\u015be\u1e63am <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">s\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6dv\u0101nuvi\u015bya puru\u1e63as tad-asad-gu\u1e47e\u1e63u<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> n\u0101neva d\u0101ru\u1e63u vibh\u0101vasuvad vibh\u0101si<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, You are the supreme one, but by Your different energies You appear differently in the spiritual and material worlds. You create the total energy of the material world by Your external potency, and after creation You enter within the material world as the Supersoul. You are the Supreme Person, and through the temporary modes of material nature You create varieties of manifestation, just as fire, entering into wood of different shapes, burns brilliantly in different varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">tvad-dattay\u0101 vayunayedam aca\u1e63\u1e6da vi\u015bva\u1e41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">supta-prabuddha iva n\u0101tha bhavat-prapanna\u1e25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">tasy\u0101pavargya-\u015bara\u1e47a\u1e41 tava p\u0101da-m\u016bla\u1e41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">vismaryate k\u1e5bta-vid\u0101 katham \u0101rta-bandho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O my master, Lord Brahm\u0101 is fully surrendered unto You. In the beginning You gave him knowledge, and thus he could see and understand the entire universe, just as a person awakens from sleep and visualizes his immediate duties. You are the only shelter of all persons who desire liberation, and You are the friend of all who are distressed. How, therefore, can a learned person who has perfect knowledge ever forget You?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">n\u016bna\u1e41 vimu\u1e63\u1e6da-matayas tava m\u0101yay\u0101 te <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ye tv\u0101\u1e41 bhav\u0101pyaya-vimok\u1e63a\u1e47am anya-heto\u1e25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">arcanti kalpaka-taru\u1e41 ku\u1e47apopabhogyam <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">icchanti yat spar\u015baja\u1e41 niraye \u2019pi n\u1e5d\u1e47\u0101m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons who worship You simply for the sense gratification of this bag of skin are certainly influenced by Your illusory energy. In spite of having You, who are like a desire tree and are the cause of liberation from birth and death, foolish persons, such as me, desire benedictions from You for sense gratification, which is available even for those who live in hellish conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">y\u0101 nirv\u1e5btis tanu-bh\u1e5bt\u0101\u1e41 tava p\u0101da-padma- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">dhy\u0101n\u0101d bhavaj-jana-kath\u0101-\u015brava\u1e47ena v\u0101 sy\u0101t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> s\u0101 brahma\u1e47i sva-mahimany api n\u0101tha m\u0101 bh\u016bt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ki\u1e41 tv antak\u0101si-lulit\u0101t patat\u0101\u1e41 vim\u0101n\u0101t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, the transcendental bliss derived from meditating upon Your lotus feet or hearing about Your glories from pure devotees is so unlimited that it is far beyond the stage of brahm\u0101nanda, wherein one thinks himself merged in the impersonal Brahman as one with the Supreme. Since brahm\u0101nanda is also defeated by the transcendental bliss derived from devotional service, then what to speak of the temporary blissfulness of elevating oneself to the heavenly planets, which is ended by the separating sword of time? Although one may be elevated to the heavenly planets, he falls down in due course of time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">bhakti\u1e41 muhu\u1e25 pravahat\u0101\u1e41 tvayi me prasa\u1e45go <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">bh\u016by\u0101d ananta mahat\u0101m amal\u0101\u015bay\u0101n\u0101m <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">yen\u0101\u00f1jasolba\u1e47am uru-vyasana\u1e41 bhav\u0101bdhi\u1e41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> ne\u1e63ye bhavad-gu\u1e47a-kath\u0101m\u1e5bta-p\u0101na-matta\u1e25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhruva Mah\u0101r\u0101ja continued: O unlimited Lord, kindly bless me so that I may associate with great devotees who engage in Your transcendental loving service constantly, as the waves of a river constantly flow. Such transcendental devotees are completely situated in an uncontaminated state of life. By the process of devotional service I shall surely be able to cross the nescient ocean of material existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, firelike dangers. It will be very easy for me, for I am becoming mad to hear about Your transcendental qualities and pastimes, which are eternally existent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">te na smaranty atitar\u0101\u1e41 priyam \u012b\u015ba martya\u1e41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ye c\u0101nv ada\u1e25 suta-suh\u1e5bd-g\u1e5bha-vitta-d\u0101r\u0101\u1e25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ye tv abja-n\u0101bha bhavad\u012bya-pad\u0101ravinda- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">saugandhya-lubdha-h\u1e5bdaye\u1e63u k\u1e5bta-prasa\u1e45g\u0101\u1e25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Lord who have a lotus navel, if a person happens to associate with a devotee whose heart always hankers after Your lotus feet, seeking always their fragrance, he is never attached to the material body or, in a bodily relationship, to offspring, friends, home, wealth and wife, which are very, very dear to materialistic persons. Indeed, he does not care for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">tirya\u1e45-naga-dvija-sar\u012bs\u1e5bpa-deva-daitya- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">marty\u0101dibhi\u1e25 paricita\u1e41 sad-asad-vi\u015be\u1e63am <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">r\u016bpa\u1e41 sthavi\u1e63\u1e6dham aja te mahad-\u0101dy-aneka\u1e41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">n\u0101ta\u1e25 para\u1e41 parama vedmi na yatra v\u0101da\u1e25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear Lord, O Supreme Unborn, I know that the different varieties of living entities, such as animals, trees, birds, reptiles, demigods and human beings, are spread throughout the universe, which is caused by the total material energy, and I know that they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifest; but I have never experienced the supreme form I behold as I see You now. Now all kinds of methods of theorizing have come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">kalp\u0101nta etad akhila\u1e41 ja\u1e6dhare\u1e47a g\u1e5bh\u1e47an <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u015bete pum\u0101n sva-d\u1e5bg ananta-sakhas tad-a\u1e45ke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">yan-n\u0101bhi-sindhu-ruha-k\u0101\u00f1cana-loka-padma- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">garbhe dyum\u0101n bhagavate pra\u1e47ato \u2019smi tasmai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear Lord, at the end of each millennium the Supreme Personality of Godhead Garbhodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u dissolves everything manifested within the universe into His belly. He lies down on the lap of \u015ae\u1e63a N\u0101ga, from His navel sprouts a golden lotus flower on a stem, and on that lotus Lord Brahm\u0101 is created. I can understand that You are the same Supreme Godhead. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">tva\u1e41 nitya-mukta-pari\u015buddha-vibuddha \u0101tm\u0101 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">k\u016b\u1e6da-stha \u0101di-puru\u1e63o bhagav\u0101\u1e41s try-adh\u012b\u015ba\u1e25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">yad-buddhy-avasthitim akha\u1e47\u1e0ditay\u0101 sva-d\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6dy\u0101 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">dra\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101 sthit\u0101v adhimakho vyatirikta \u0101sse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally liberated, Your existence is situated in pure goodness, and You are existent in the Supersoul without change. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences, and You are eternally the master of the three modes of material nature. Thus, You are always different from the ordinary living entities. As Lord Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, You maintain all the affairs of the entire universe, and yet You stand aloof and are the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">yasmin viruddha-gatayo hy ani\u015ba\u1e41 patanti <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">vidy\u0101dayo vividha-\u015baktaya \u0101nup\u016brvy\u0101t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> tad brahma vi\u015bva-bhavam ekam anantam \u0101dyam <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u0101nanda-m\u0101tram avik\u0101ram aha\u1e41 prapadye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear Lord, in Your impersonal manifestation of Brahman there are always two opposing elements \u2014 knowledge and ignorance. Your multi-energies are continually manifest, but the impersonal Brahman, which is undivided, original, changeless, unlimited and blissful, is the cause of the material manifestation. Because You are the same impersonal Brahman, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">saty\u0101\u015bi\u1e63o hi bhagava\u1e41s tava p\u0101da-padmam <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u0101\u015b\u012bs tath\u0101nubhajata\u1e25 puru\u1e63\u0101rtha-m\u016brte\u1e25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">apy evam arya bhagav\u0101n parip\u0101ti d\u012bn\u0101n <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">v\u0101\u015breva vatsakam anugraha-k\u0101taro \u2019sm\u0101n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, O Supreme Lord, You are the supreme personified form of all benediction. Therefore, for one who abides in Your devotional service with no other desire, worshiping Your lotus feet is better than becoming king and lording it over a kingdom. That is the benediction of worshiping Your lotus feet. To ignorant devotees like me, You are the causelessly merciful maintainer, just like a cow, who takes care of the newly born calf by supplying milk and giving it protection from attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dhruva uv\u0101ca yo \u2019nta\u1e25 pravi\u015bya mama v\u0101cam im\u0101\u1e41 prasupt\u0101\u1e41 sa\u00f1j\u012bvayaty akhila-\u015bakti-dhara\u1e25 sva-dh\u0101mn\u0101 any\u0101\u1e41\u015b ca hasta-cara\u1e47a-\u015brava\u1e47a-tvag-\u0101d\u012bn pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n namo bhagavate puru\u1e63\u0101ya tubhyam Dhruva Mah\u0101r\u0101ja said: My dear Lord, You are all-powerful. After entering within me, You have enlivened all my sleeping senses \u2014 my hands, legs, ears, touch sensation, life force and especially my power of speech. 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