Chapter 9
ध्रुव उवाच समाधिना नैकभवेन यत्पदं विदु: सनन्दादय ऊर्ध्वरेतस: । मासैरहं षड्भिरमुष्य पादयो- श्छायामुपेत्यापगत: पृथङ्मति: ॥ ३० ॥
Transliteration
dhruva uvāca samādhinā naika-bhavena yat padaṁ viduḥ sanandādaya ūrdhva-retasaḥ māsair ahaṁ ṣaḍbhir amuṣya pādayoś chāyām upetyāpagataḥ pṛthaṅ-matiḥ
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
dhruvaḥ uvāca — Dhruva Mahārāja said; samādhinā — by practicing yoga in trance; na — never; eka-bhavena — by one birth; yat — which; padam — position; viduḥ — understood; sananda-ādayaḥ — the four brahmacārīs headed by Sanandana; ūrdhva-retasaḥ — infallible celibates; māsaiḥ — within months; aham — I; ṣaḍbhiḥ — six; amuṣya — of Him; pādayoḥ — of the lotus feet; chāyām — shelter; upetya — achieving; apagataḥ — fell down; pṛthak-matiḥ — my mind fixed on things other than the Lord.
Translation
“Dhruva Mahārāja thought to himself: To endeavor to be situated in the shade of the lotus feet of the Lord is not an ordinary task, because even the great brahmacārīs headed by Sanandana, who practiced aṣṭāṅga-yoga in trance, attained the shelter of the Lord’s lotus feet only after many, many births. Within six months I achieved the same result, yet due to my thinking differently from the Lord, I fell down from my position.”