Chapter 8:
Dhruva leaves Home for the Forest
(71) Meanwhile was, after taking a bath, fasting
that night, the
Original Personality
worshiped [by Dhruva] with perfect attention as
Nârada had advised.
Chapter 9: Dhruva
Returns
Home
from
the
Forest
(4) Seeing that he wanted
to glorify Him, but lacked the experience for it, did the Lord, who is
the prayer
in accord with the scripture in the heart of each,
understanding the boy, mercifully touch his forehead with His
conchshell.
Chapter 10: Dhruva
Mahârâja's Fight with the Yakshas
(7) Thereupon appeared the very powerful soldiers
of Kuvera, who
couldn't tolerate the sound
of the conchshell, and attacked him with
all kinds of weapons.
Chapter 11: Svâyambuva Manu Advises Dhruva
Mahârâja to Stop Fighting
(14) Pleasing
the
Supreme
Lord
is
a
person liberated from the modes of material
nature and freed from
the worries of his individual existence; he achieves the spiritual
bliss of the Unlimited [brahma nirvânam].
Chapter 12: Dhruva
Mahârâja Goes Back to Godhead
(17) There he purified his body, bathing in pure
water and
controlled he,
fixed in yogic postures, the breathing process by withdrawing the mind
from his physical senses. Concentrating on the exact form of the Lord
became he so meditating, constantly keeping Him in mind, fully
absorbed.
Chapter 13: Description of the Descendants of
Dhruva Mahârâja
(39) That child, a boy indeed, appeared partly
following his maternal grandfather's irreligion of death;
and of that
he became an offender of the holy duty.
Chapter 14: The Story of
King Vena
(29) Maitreya said: 'With all respects offered
not acceding to the request of the sages,
was thus the one whose intelligence was perverted and who most sinful
had strayed from the path, bereft of all good fortune.
