SB 4.9.6 Sincerity attracts the Lord to manifest his presence within and without

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Srimad Bhagavatam 4.9.6 dhruvaca yo anta praviśyama vācmi mam paśyutāṁ sañjīva yathya khilaśakti dhara sva-dhāmaṇā anyābhyaś ca haspa-caraṁ śramaṁ tvagādhiṁ prāṇāṁ namo bhagvate puruṣāyatupyam So, namo bhagvate puruṣāyatupyam Dhruv Maharaj begins his prayers to the Supreme Lord with obeisances. And to you, my dear Lord, I offer obeisances.
So, this is the end of a long, adventurous and extraordinary journey for Dhruv Maharaj, wherein he left home, braved the dangers of the forest in search of the Supreme Lord, met Narada Muni who guided him and then endured fearsome austerities to eventually attract the attention and pleasure of the Lord, who has now appeared in front of him. And yet, when the Lord appeared, Dhruv Maharaj was utterly tongue-tied, being overwhelmed by ecstasy and uncertainty. So, at that time, the Lord, seeing his sincerity, Dhruv Maharaj couldn’t speak a word, but internally he was so delighted, so grateful to see the Lord and he wanted to glorify the Lord.
And he was begging internally, but being unable to speak anything externally. So, the Lord, seeing his sincerity, touched him with His conch and through that, empowered him to speak. And here, Dhruv Maharaj starts speaking.
The first thing he acknowledges is, My dear Lord, I am able to speak because of Your mercy. So, ultimately, whatever we do, are able to do is because of Krishna’s mercy. None of our abilities are actually ours.
They are given to us by Krishna. At the same time, there are certain situations when we realize certain circumstances to be Krishna’s mercy. So here, Dhruv Maharaj is specifically pointing out to his situation just before the prayers.
He says, My dear Lord, I am not able to speak and now I am able to speak. So, you have acted like Sanjeevayatya. Sanjeev is a medicinal herb that revives the dead.
As it was used by Lord Ram, when Hanuman brought it and he revived the soldiers who had been nearly dead. So, all of us are spiritually dead and Sanjeevani is also a metaphor for anything that revives in general. So, he says, My dear Lord, I was just dead and You have, by Your mercy, by entering into me, You have made my words manifest themselves by Your grace and You are Akhila Shakti Dharaha You are possessing all the energies that are there.
So, Your internal potency is manifested in me. You have all energies and You have used Your internal energy to enable me to speak and not just to speak. But actually, You have entered in all my senses.
So actually, in bhakti, we have a sensory experience that is trans-sensory. That means, when the Lord appears, we see Him with our eyes. In these cases, when the devotee has darshan, at that time the devotee also sees the Lord with his own eyes.
So, the senses become enlivened. The same is described about Narad Muni when the Lord appeared in front of him. The senses became entirely enlivened.
So, he is saying that all my senses are enlivened by Your arrival, by Your manifestation within me and without me. So, Dhruva Maharaj is now having that extraordinary experience. We say, theoretically, the Lord is inside and outside.
But normally, we can’t perceive Him anywhere. But Dhruva Maharaj is able to perceive the Lord both inside and outside. Inside is the empowerment to speak and glorify, and externally as the object which is to be glorified.
And he is naturally thrilled by that. So, we may not have the Sakshat Darshan of the Lord, but by the chanting of the Holy Names, we can also attract the presence of the Lord within us. And when the Lord becomes manifest in His presence within us, then we also become divinely conscious, both internally and externally.
Thank you.