Emotions are the powerful tools that divine have bestowed us on this earth. Every deed and every success hides a story behind it and if we notice an emotion must have motivated us to commit or achieve it. It may be humiliation, anger, hate, love etc. Unknowingly these emotions uplift our boundaries and reveal the power we possess within.
Humiliation and Desire are emotions that combined together and helped a five year old boy ‘Dhruva’ to achieve divine Sri Vishnu’s love and devotion. Dhruva was the son of King Uttaanpad. The King had two wives Suniti and Suruchi, each of them had a son. Dhruva was the son of Suniti and Uttam was the son of Suruchi. Uttam got all pleasures and love of the King; but Dhruva never enjoyed princely pleasures and was deprived of his father’s love. One day Dhruva went up to the King; suddenly on seeing the innocent child King picked up Dhruva and made him sit on his lap. But the second wife in rage pushed the child on the floor and humiliated his innocent heart, by saying that if Dhruva was really interested to be showered by his father’s love he should have been her son. Dhruva felt those words like sharp arrows and went in tears to his mother and cried out in pain. Suniti was a pious lady; she said that God Sri Vishnu had the power to grant every wish. On hearing these words he got so motivated that he went into deep forest to achieve Sri Vishnu’s blessings. Narad Muni guided the little child’s determination and suggested him to perform spiritual penance. Dhruva did it with so grit that it was difficult even for big saints and sages. Lord Vishnu was far impressed by little Dhruva’s devotion he came before the child and showered His love on him. He made Dhruva to sit in his lap, the abode where no one ever think to achieve and was showered with gifts. This episode in Shri Mad Bhagwat Puraan clearly defines that emotion can become the mirror of devotion; it is not the slave of age or time.
