tavaiva caraṇāmbhojaṁ

tavaiva caraṇāmbhojaṁ

śreyas-kāmā nirāśiṣaḥ

visṛjyobhayataḥ saṅgaṁ

munayaḥ samupāsate

The sages who desire to achieve the highest goal, bhakti, and who are completely free from all material desires, giving up material attachment in this and next life, worship constantly only your lotus feet.

The conduct of the great souls proves that you have this nature. The sages worship your lotus feet, not mine. People with material desires worship me. Śreyas-kāmāḥ here means “those who desire bhakti.” Just as your devotee has no material desire, you also have no material desire. You are not like me, with a desire for power, who am dependent on my worshippers. 

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tvaṁ brahma pūrṇam amṛtaṁ viguṇaṁ viśokam

ānanda-mātram avikāram ananyad anyat

viśvasya hetur udaya-sthiti-saṁyamānām

ātmeśvaraś ca tad-apekṣatayānapekṣaḥ

You are Brahman, complete, deathless, without material qualities, without lamentation, fully blissful, without change, the only existing entity, different from everything else, the cause of the universe, the cause of creation, maintenance and destruction, the give of results to the jīvas, who are dependent on him. You are independent.

 

This is because your form is distinct from this universe. Brahman is spiritual and the universe is material. The other words are adjectives describing Brahman. You are full and the universe is incomplete. The universe has material elements, guṇas, lamentation, happiness and distress, and is subject to change. You do not have these faults. There is nothing except Brahman (ananyat) because Brahman is the cause of everything. Thus it is different (anyat) from the universe. Because the universe is not even conscious, the Brahman is different from the universe, and the universe is different because it is the effect of Brahman. The universe is clearly defined as the effect of Brahman: Brahman is the cause of the appearance, maintenance and destruction of the world. You are the Lord of the jīvas conditioned by the universe and the giver of results to them. “Am I like a king who gives results to those who serve, with some dependence on them?” Not at all. They depend on you. That is all you expect. You give results according to their dependency. You do not depend on them. They are dependent on you in order to attain their results. But you do not dependent on them for fulfilling your own goals.

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