तस्यां विशुद्धकरण: शिववार्विगाह्य बद्ध्वासनं जितमरुन्मनसाहृताक्ष: । स्थूले दधार भगवत्प्रतिरूप एतद् ध्यायंस्तदव्यवहितो व्यसृजत्समाधौ ॥ १७ ॥
tasyam visuddha-karanah siva-var vigahya baddhvasanam jita-marun manasahrtaksah sthule dadhara bhagavat-pratirupa etad dhyayams tad avyavahito vyasrjat samadhau
- tasyam
- in Badarikasrama
- visuddha
- purified
- karanah
- his senses
- siva
- pure
- vah
- water
- vigahya
- bathing in
- baddhva
- having fixed
- asanam
- sitting position
- jita
- controlled
- marut
- breathing process
- manasa
- by the mind
- ahrta
- withdrawn
- aksah
- his senses
- sthule
- physical
- dadhara
- he concentrated
- bhagavat-pratirupe
- on the exact form of the Lord
- etat
- the mind
- dhyayan
- meditating upon
- tat
- that
- avyavahitah
- without stopping
- vyasrjat
- he entered
- samadhau
- into trance
In Badarikasrama Dhruva Maharaja’s senses became completely purified because he bathed regularly in the crystal-clear purified water. He fixed his sitting position and by yogic practice controlled the breathing process and the air of life; in this way his senses were completely withdrawn. Then he concentrated his mind on the arca-vigraha form of the Lord, which is the exact replica of the Lord and, thus meditating upon Him, entered into complete trance.