हृत्पद्मकोशे स्फुरितं तडित्प्रभम् ।
तिरोहितं सहसैवोपलक्ष्य
बहिःस्थितं तदवस्थं ददर्श ॥२॥
sa vai dhiyÄ yoga-vipÄka-tÄ«vrayÄ
há¹›t-padma-koÅ›e sphuritaá¹ taá¸it-prabham
tirohitaá¹ sahasaivopalaká¹£ya
bahiḥ-sthitaṠtad-avasthaṠdadarśa
saḥ - Dhruva MahÄrÄja; vai - also; dhiyÄ - by meditation; yoga-vipÄka-tÄ«vrayÄ - on account of mature realization of the yogic process; há¹›t - the heart; padma-koÅ›e - on the lotus of; sphuritam - manifested; taá¸it-prabham - brilliant like lightning; tirohitam - having disappeared; sahasÄ - all of a sudden; eva - also; upalaká¹£ya - by observing; bahiḥ-sthitam - externally situated; tat-avastham - in the same posture; dadarÅ›a - was able to see.
The form of the Lord, which was brilliant like lightning and in which Dhruva MahÄrÄja, in his mature yogic process, was fully absorbed in meditation, all of a sudden disappeared. Thus Dhruva was perturbed, and his meditation broke. But as soon as he opened his eyes he saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally present, just as he had been seeing the Lord in his heart.
Because of his mature position in yogic meditation, Dhruva MahÄrÄja was constantly observing the form of the Personality of Godhead within his heart, but all of a sudden, when the Supreme Personality disappeared from his heart, he thought that he had lost Him. Dhruva MahÄrÄja was perturbed, but upon opening his eyes and breaking his meditation he saw the same form of the Lord before him. In the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.38) it is said, premÄñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena: a saintly person who has developed love of Godhead by devotional service always sees the Lord’s transcendental form of ÅšyÄmasundara. This ÅšyÄmasundara form of the Lord within the heart of a devotee is not imaginary. When a devotee becomes mature in his prosecution of devotional service, he sees face to face the same ÅšyÄmasundara he has thought of during the entire course of his devotional service. Since the Supreme Lord is absolute, the form within the heart of a devotee, the form in the temple and the original form in Vaikuṇá¹ha, Vá¹›ndÄvana-dhÄma, are all the same; they are nondifferent from one another.
