Devanagari
यथा पुमान्न स्वाङ्गेषु शिर:पाण्यादिषु क्वचित् ।
पारक्यबुद्धिं कुरुते एवं भूतेषु मत्पर: ॥ ५३ ॥
Verse text
yathā pumān na svāṅgeṣu
śiraḥ-pāṇy-ādiṣu kvacit
pārakya-buddhiṁ kurute
evaṁ bhūteṣu mat-paraḥ
Synonyms
yathā
—
as
;
pumān
—
a person
;
na
—
not
;
sva
—
aṅgeṣu — in his own body
;
śiraḥ
—
pāṇi — ādiṣu — between the head and the hands and other parts of the body
;
kvacit
—
sometimes
;
pārakya
—
buddhim — differentiation
;
kurute
—
make
;
evam
—
thus
;
bhūteṣu
—
among living entities
;
mat
—
paraḥ — My devotee .
Translation
A person with average intelligence does not think the head and other parts of the body to be separate. Similarly, My devotee does not differentiate Viṣṇu, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, from any thing or any living entity.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
My devotee does not see difference between himself and all living beings, just as a person does not differentiate between himself and his various limbs such as head and hand.
The devotee sees himself as non-different from all beings. The devotee’s seeing non-difference is taking others’ happiness and distress as his own.
Purport
Whenever there is disease in any part of the body, the whole body takes care of the ailing part. Similarly, a devotee’s oneness is manifested in His compassion for all conditioned souls.
Bhagavad-gītā
(5.18)
says,
paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ:
those who are learned see everyone’s conditional life equally. Devotees are compassionate to every conditioned soul, and therefore they are known as
apārakya-buddhi.
Because devotees are learned and know that every living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, they preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to everyone so that everyone may be happy. If a particular part of the body is diseased, the whole attention of the body goes to that part. Similarly, devotees care for any person who is forgetful of Kṛṣṇa and therefore in material consciousness. The equal vision of the devotee is that he works to get all living entities back home, back to Godhead.