Prabhupada, New York, October 9, 1966: […] Now, this boy, Maharaja Dhruva, was initiated by Narada. When he saw that, “This boy is determined,” then he initiated him and gave him mantra, that namo bhagavate vasudevaya. He chanted that mantra and became perfect, and God came before him.
Now, when God came before him, God offered him: “My dear Dhruva, what do you want? Take whatever you like.” Then Dhruva said, “My dear Sir,” sthanabhilasi tapasi sthito ’ham, “Oh, I was situated in this severe type of penance simply for the matter of my father’s kingdom, a land.”
Sthanabhilasi tapasi sthito ’ham tvam praptavan deva-munindra-guhyam: “But I have now seen You, and You who is impossible to be seen even by the great sages and great saints. So I have seen You. So what is my profit?”
Now, kacam vicinvann api divya-ratnam: “As if I came out of my home to find out some particles of glass, but I have found out a very valuable diamond.” Svamin krtartho ’smi varam na yace: “Oh, I am satisfied. I have no necessity of asking from You.”
So if anyone, either in distressed condition or in poverty-stricken, if he goes to God and just like the same determination like Dhruva, that “I must see God and take this benediction from God,” and if he happens to God…, see God, if he understands God, then he is, he no more, no more wants to have anything material.
He understands that, “All this material nonsense is foolishness. I have got the real thing.” Yam labdhva caparam labham manyate nadhikam tatah: “Which gaining,” you’ll find in the Bhagavad-gita, “when one actually in Krishna consciousness, he does not want anything.” Just like Dhruva Maharaja.
Svamin krtartho ’smi varam na yace: “My dear Lord, I am fully satisfied. I don’t want anything. I have no distress. I am not poverty-stricken. I am the wealthiest. There is no comparison of my assets.” That position he comes to.
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