There is no botheration for securing a piece of leaf, a piece of flower or a little water or a piece of fruit. Any poor man, any rich man, can secure. And the Lord says "Anyone who offers Me these four things with devotion, with love, I accept them"

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"Anyone who offers Me these four things with devotion, with love, I accept them" |"There is no botheration for securing a piece of leaf, a piece of flower a little water or a piece of fruit. Any poor man, any rich man can secure. And the Lord says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati: BG 9.26"

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There is no botheration for securing a piece of leaf, a piece of flower or a little water or a piece of fruit. Any poor man, any rich man, can secure. And the Lord says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati: BG 9.26 "Anyone who offers Me these four things with devotion, with love, I accept them. I accept them." Why? Now, tad ahaṁ bhaktyā upahṛtam aśnāmi. "Because that is secured with sincere love for Me." The Lord accepts our love.

661105 - Lecture Purport to Brahma-samhita - New York:

This verse is particularly important, because it describes the significance of sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs 5.1).

The Lord's body is sac-cid-ānanda. His body is not like ours. Our body is acit . . . asat, acit and nirānanda, just the opposite. Asat means it will not exist, and acit means it is full of ignorance, and nirānanda . . . nirānanda means full of miseries. These three qualification of our body, whereas the Lord's body is sac-cid-ānanda: it is eternal and full of knowledge and full of bliss.

Our body and with our self . . . my body and my self are different. But Lord and Lord's body is absolute. What is Lord, Lord's body is also the same. So that description is given here: aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti. The Lord is not impersonal. He has got His form. And what sort of form?

We should not consider that whenever there is a question of form, the form must be just like one of us. This is foolishness. Now, His form is completely different, just like we have explained. His form is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, and our this present material body is asat, acit and nirānanda. Just completely different.

So His form, His different parts of the body, described in the Vedas, apāṇi-pādo javano grahītā paśyati (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 3.19): "His . . . He has no hands and legs; still, He accepts all that you offer to Him. In the Bhagavad-gītā also we'll find that:

patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ

yo me bhaktyā prayacchati

tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam

aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ

(BG 9.26)

"My devotees . . ." God is not . . . the Lord is not in need of our offering, but still, He is so kind, if we offer Him something . . . patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyam. Not that we have to offer him very luxurious things, very highly valuable things. He says that even a piece of leaf, patraṁ, a piece of flower, patraṁ puṣpam, a piece of fruit and little water . . . that means these four things can be secured by any poor man in any part of the world.

There is no botheration for securing a piece of leaf, a piece of flower a little water or a piece of fruit. Any poor man, any rich man can secure. And the Lord says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati (BG 9.26): "Anyone who offers Me these four things with devotion, with love, I accept them." "I accept them." Why? Now, tad ahaṁ bhaktyā upahṛtam aśnāmi: "Because that is secured with sincere love for Me." So God . . . the Lord accepts our love.

Now, the Lord is . . . we cannot see. He is far, far away, and still, He is within us. Therefore His hand is not like our hands. The Vedas . . . when the Vedas describes, "The Lord has no hand," that means He has no hand like ours, not that a two-feet hand which we have got, or two- or three-feet hand; largest hand. His hand is so large that He can extend His hand in any part of His creation, millions and billions miles away, and everywhere. That is the specific significance of His body.