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Srila Prabhupada, New York, December 12, 1966: […] Now, suppose a poor man, he wants to offer something to God. Then what he has to offer? He… Here is a prescription given by the Lord Himself which can be offered even by the poorest man. What is that? Patram puspam phalam toyam. A, a little bit of tulasi leaves or any leaf, puspam, a little bit of flower, patram puspam phalam, a small fruit, and toyam, a little water.
Now, patram puspam phalam toyam, these four things can be available universally. Nobody is so poor that he cannot collect a leaf of a tree or a small fruit or a small flower and little water. It is universal, nothing expensive. So anyone, in any country, in any place, he can offer Krishna these four things. There is no bar. Patram puspam phalam toyam. Four things: a small leaf…
You can have any. There are so many trees. If you take one leaf, even if you are forbidden, if you ask that “I am going to offer this leaf to God”, anyone will offer you. Patram puspam, a little flower, and a small fruit and little water. So Lord says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. The real thing is love.
“Anyone who is offering Me these four things in love”, tad aham bhakty-upahrtam, “because he has brought these four things with love and devotion”, then God says, Lord says, tad aham asnami, “I eat. I eat”, bhaktya prayatatmanah, “because with devotion, with faith, and with love, he has brought.”
God is full. We should not think that “God is depending upon my this little flower or fruit. He is very hungry. When I shall offer this fruit and He’ll satisfy His hunger”. No. He’s purnam. But the qualification is that offering should be in love, in devotion. That He accepts. He accepts your devotion and love. So patram puspam. So anybody can worship Krishna. This is universal. Full Lecture
pamho agtACBSP,
ke ami? Who am i? Why i’m suffering the three-fold miseries? This is what SRILA SANATANA Gosvami asked to SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU, and SRI GAURANGA answered him: Jivera svarupa hoy krsnera nitya dasa, the jiva, minute soul, is an eternal servant of SRI KRSNA.
We know this is not easy to get rid of the tendency to be the master.
In this material world everyone wants be supreme in everything. We can see that very clearly for example, the mudhas, less intelligent class of people in the guise of diksa gurus in fiskcon, they never learn how to surrender because they are still intoxicated by the position of being the master instead of the servant.
This contagious contamination of being the master by present guru hoaxers in Iskcon is a dangerous type of cheating.
They do not know who they are they simply create more disorder instead of surrendering to the supreme truth SRI KRSNA.
Anyway, this is the good news, the Lord says when material illusion is causing too much trouble, He will correct it.
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