मैत्रेय उवाच मातु: सपत्न्या वाग्बाणैर्हृदि विद्धस्तु तान् स्मरन् । नैच्छन्मुक्तिपतेर्मुक्तिं तस्मात्तापमुपेयिवान् ॥ २९ ॥
maitreya uvaca matuh sapatnya vag-banair hrdi viddhas tu tan smaran naicchan mukti-pater muktim tasmat tapam upeyivan
- maitreyah uvaca
- the great sage Maitreya replied
- matuh
- of his mother
- sa-patnyah
- of the co-wife
- vak-banaih
- by the arrows of harsh words
- hrdi
- in the heart
- viddhah
- pierced
- tu
- then
- tan
- all of them
- smaran
- remembering
- na
- not
- aicchat
- desired
- mukti-pateh
- from the Lord, whose lotus feet give liberation
- muktim
- salvation
- tasmat
- therefore
- tapam
- grief
- upeyivan
- he suffered.
Maitreya answered: Dhruva Maharaja’s heart, which was pierced by the arrows of the harsh words of his stepmother, was greatly aggrieved, and thus when he fixed upon his goal of life he did not forget her misbehavior. He did not demand actual liberation from this material world, but at the end of his devotional service, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before him, he was simply ashamed of the material demands he had in his mind.