Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 4.8.24

maitreya uvaca

evam sanjalpitam matur

akarnyarthagamam vacah

sanniyamyatmanatmanam

niscakrama pituh purat

SYNONYMS

maitreyah uvaca -- the great sage Maitreya said; evam -- thus; sanjalpitam -- spoken together; matuh -- from the mother; akarnya -- hearing; artha-agamam -- purposeful; vacah -- words; sanniyamya -- controlling; atmana -- by the mind; atmanam -- own self; niscakrama -- got out; pituh -- of the father; purat -- from the house.

TRANSLATION

The great sage Maitreya continued: The instruction of Dhruva Maharaja's mother, Suniti, was actually meant for fulfilling his desired objective. Therefore, after deliberate consideration and with intelligence and fixed determination, he left his father's house.

PURPORT

Both the mother and the son were lamenting Dhruva Maharaja's having been insulted by his stepmother and his father's not having taken any step on this issue. But mere lamentation is useless -- one should find out the means to mitigate one's lamentation. Thus both mother and son decided to take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord because that is the only solution to all material problems. It is indicated in this connection that Dhruva Maharaja left his father's capital city to go to a secluded place to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja also that if one is seeking peace of mind he should free himself from all contamination of family life and take shelter of the Supreme Godhead by going to the forest. To the Gaudiya Vaisnava this forest is the forest of Vrnda, or Vrndavana. If one takes shelter of Vrndavana under Vrndavanesvari, Srimati Radharani, certainly all the problems of his life are solved very easily.

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