गम्भीरवेगोऽनिमिषं ज्योतिषां चक्रमाहितम् ।
यस्मिन्भ्रमति कौरव्य मेढ्यामिव गवां गणः ॥३९॥

gambhÄ«ra-vego 'nimiá¹£aá¹
jyotiá¹£Äá¹ cakram Ähitam
yasmin bhramati kauravya
meá¸hyÄm iva gavÄá¹ gaṇaḥ

 gambhÄ«ra-vegaḥ - with great force and speed; animiá¹£am - unceasingly; jyotiá¹£Äm - of luminaries; cakram - sphere; Ähitam - connected; yasmin - around which; bhramati - encircles; kauravya - O Vidura; meá¸hyÄm - a central pole; iva - as; gavÄm - of bulls; gaṇaḥ - a herd.


Text

Saint Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, descendant of Kuru, as a herd of bulls circumambulates a central pole on their right side, all the luminaries within the universal sky unceasingly circumambulate the abode of Dhruva MahÄrÄja with great force and speed.

Purport

Each and every planet within the universe travels at a very high speed. From a statement in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam it is understood that even the sun travels sixteen thousand miles in a second, and from Brahma-saá¹hitÄ we understand from the Å›loka beginning yac-caká¹£ur eá¹£a savitÄ sakala-grahÄṇÄm that the sun is considered to be the eye of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, and it also has a specific orbit within which it circles. Similarly, all other planets have their specific orbits. But together all of them encircle the polestar, or Dhruvaloka, where Dhruva MahÄrÄja is situated at the summit of the three worlds. We can only imagine how highly exalted the actual position of a devotee is, and certainly we cannot even conceive how exalted is the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.