Çré Kåñëa continued: “This process is the supreme intelligence of
the intelligent and the cleverness of the most clever, for by following it one
can in this very life make use of the temporary and unreal to achieve Me, the
eternal reality.”
Çréla Viçvanätha
Cakravärté Öhäkura elaborates:
He who can receive a thousand coins by giving one coin is said to
be most intelligent and skillful in this world. One who obtains diamonds or a
gold coin in exchange for a small coin is called intelligent and skillful. A person who can take a gold coin from a
sober, intelligent person is called intelligent and skillful. But one cannot
say who is intelligent enough to obtain a cintämaëi or a kämadhenu.
The inhabitants of Bharata-bhümé who are mortal and born in low families offer
to me their bodies not worthy a penny, which are deformed and afflicted with
old age and disease. But they attain me,
the ocean of sweetness. Accepting their offerings, I, who am supposed to be the
cleverest, out of joy give myself, with my priceless ornaments, bracelets and
crown, to the devotees. Such inhabitants
of Bhärta-bhümi are the most intelligent and most skillful! Giving one’s body to the Lord means to engage
the ear and other organs in hearing, chanting, remembering and service. If the tongue is engaged in chanting, if the
ears are engaged in hearing, if the hands are engaged in service, then one is
giving one’s body to the Lord. But the Lord is attained even by offering only
one part of the body! What intelligent
person would not do this?
This verse is the touchstone among verses, the essence of all the
Lord’s teachings. He who has this verse
shining in his heart shines in the assembly of devotees.
