Devanagari
परिचर्या भगवतो यावत्य: पूर्वसेविता: ।
ता मन्त्रहृदयेनैव प्रयुञ्ज्यान्मन्त्रमूर्तये ॥ ५८ ॥
Verse text
paricaryā bhagavato
yāvatyaḥ pūrva-sevitāḥ
tā mantra-hṛdayenaiva
prayuṣjyān mantra-mūrtaye
Synonyms
paricaryāḥ
—
service
;
bhagavataḥ
—
of the Personality of Godhead
;
yāvatyaḥ
—
as they are prescribed (as above mentioned)
;
pūrva
—
sevitāḥ — recommended or done by previous ācāryas
;
tāḥ
—
that
;
mantra
—
hymns
;
hṛdayena
—
within the heart
;
eva
—
certainly
;
prayuṣjyāt
—
one should worship
;
mantra
—
mūrtaye — who is nondifferent from the mantra. .
Translation
One should follow in the footsteps of previous devotees regarding how to worship the Supreme Lord with the prescribed paraphernalia, or one should offer worship within the heart by reciting the mantra to the Personality of Godhead, who is nondifferent from the mantra.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
One can offer all the Lord’s services as done by previous devotees to the Lord indicated in the mantra, just by using the mūla-mantra.
One should offer the services as performed by previous devotees (pūrva-sevitāḥ), such as fragrance, sandalwood, betel, umbrella, and cāmara, just by chanting the mūla-mantra (mantra-hṛdayena) for the deity, mentally producing those items which are not available. This is suitable for a detached person, since those items will not be available. One should act to please (prayuṣjyāt) the Lord, who is the object of meditation in the mantra (mantra-mūrtaye).
Purport
It is recommended here that even if one cannot arrange to worship the forms of the Lord with all recommended paraphernalia, one can simply think about the form of the Lord and mentally offer everything recommended in the
śāstras,
including flowers,
candana
pulp, conchshell, umbrella, fan and
cāmara.
One can meditate upon offering and chant the twelve-syllable
mantra, oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Since the
mantra
and the Supreme Personality of Godhead are nondifferent, one can worship the form of the Lord with the
mantra
in the absence of physical paraphernalia. The story of the
brāhmaṇa
who worshiped the Lord within his mind, as related in
Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu,
or
The Nectar of Devotion,
should be consulted in this connection. If paraphernalia is not present physically, one can think of the items and offer them to the Deity by chanting the
mantra.
Such are the liberal and potent facilities in the process of devotional service.