Purport

Purport by His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

This verse is particularly important, because it describes the significance of sac-cid-ananda-vigrahaḥ [Bs 5.1].

[Krsna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]

The Lord's body is sac-cid-ananda. His body is not like ours. Our body is acit and..., asat, acit and nirananda, just the opposite. Asat means it will not exist, and acit means it is full of ignorance, and nirananda... Nirananda means full of miseries. These three qualification of our body, whereas the Lord's body is sac-cid-ananda: it is eternal and full of knowledge and full of bliss.

Our body and with our self... My body and my self are different. But Lord and Lord's body is absolute. What is Lord, Lord's body is also the same. So that description is given here: ahgani yasya sakalendriya-vrtti-manti. The Lord is not impersonal. He has got His form. And what sort of form? We should not consider that whenever there is a question of form, the form must be just like one of us. This is foolishness. Now, His form is completely different, just like we have explained. His form is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha, and our this present material body is asat, acit and nirananda. Just completely different.

So His form, His different parts of the body, described in the Vedas, apani-pado javano grahita pasyati... [Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.19]:

[The Supreme Lord has no material hands and feet but accepts whatever is offered to Him and moves very quickly. The Supreme Person has no material ears and eyes but sees and hears everything. He is the knower of everything, and He is all that is to be known. It is said that He is the best and the greatest of all persons.]

"He has no hands and legs; still, He accepts all that you offer to Him.'' In the Bhagavad-gita also we'll find that,

[If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.]

"My devotees..." God is not... The Lord is not in need of our offering, but still, He is so kind, if we offer Him something... Patram puspam phalam toyam. Not that we have to offer him very luxurious things, very highly valuable things. He says that even a piece of leaf, patram, a piece of flower, patram puspam, a piece of fruit and little water... That means these four things can be secured by any poor man in any part of the world. There is no botheration for securing a piece of leaf, a piece of flower a little water or a piece of fruit. Any poor man, any rich man can secure.

And the Lord says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg 9.26]:

"Anyone who offers Me these four things with devotion, with love, I accept them." "I accept them." Why? Now, tad aham bhaktya upahrtam asnami: "Because that is secured with sincere love for Me." So God..., the Lord accepts our love.

Now, the Lord is... We cannot see. He is far, far away, and still, He is within us. Therefore His hand is not like our hands. The Vedas... When the Vedas describes, "The Lord has no hand," that means He has no hand like ours, not that a two-feet hand which we have got, or two- or three-feet hand; largest hand. His hand is so large that He can extend His hand in any part of His creation, millions and billions miles away, and everywhere. That is the specific significance of His body. So this is described here. [sings:]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor. Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane.]

And another special significance of the parts of His body, limbs or hands or legs, eyes, ears... What is that significance? Now, each part of His body has got all the potency of other parts of the body. Just like with our eyes we can simply see; but the Lord, He can not only see by His eyes, transcendental eyes, but He can also hear, He can also eat. All the... All the functions of all other parts of the body, He can function by any part of His body. Not that a particular part of the body can function only for a particular purpose. No.

Just like simply by glancing... In the Vedic literature it is said, sa aiksata sa asrjata: "Simply by seeing-simply by seeing-He impregnated all the energies for creation. Simply by seeing." Mayadhyaksena prakrtiḥ sūyate sa-caracaram [Bg 9.10].

[This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.]

Simply by His glance. Simply by His glance He impregnates the material energy for functioning. It is going on.

So He has got all the potencies in all the parts of His body. Ahgani yasya sakalendriya-vrtti-manti pasyanti panti kalayanti. That is the difference between His body and our body. So when there is description in the Vedas that "He has no leg, no hand, no eyes," that does not mean He has no eyes. He has got eyes, but not these eyes just like we have got conception. So here it is explained that ahgani yasya sakalendriya-vrtti-manti. His parts of the body are invested with all the potencies of other parts of the body. With any part of His body He can function any work.

[sings Brahma-samhita, verses 32-35, 37, 38]