Text 36] .Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 529

Do whatever you like or whatever may be easier for you to do, eat
whatever you may eat, sacrifice whatever you can sacrifice, give whatever
you may give in charity, and do whatever you may undertake in penance,
but everything must be done for Him only. If you do business or if you
accept some employment, do so on behalf of the Lord. Whatever you may
eat, you may offer the same to the Lord and be assured that He will return
the food after eating it Himself. He is the complete whole, and therefore
whatever He may eat as offered by the devotee is accepted because of the
devotee’s love, but again it is returned as prasadam for the devotee so
that he can be happy by eating. In other words, be a servant of God and
live peacefully in that consciousness, ultimately returning home, back to
Godhead.

It is said, yasya smrtyad ca namoktya tapo-yajna-kriyadisu niinam sam-
pirnatameti sadyo vandetam acyutam. | offer my obeisances unto Ilim,
the infallible, because simply by either remembering Him or vibrating His
holy name one can attain the perfection of all penances, sacrifices or
fruitive activities, and this process can be universally followed. It is en-
joined, akamah sarva-kamo vad moksa-kadma udaradhih tibrena bhakti-
yogena yajeta purusam param: “A person, though he may be full of de-
sires or may have no desires, may follow this path of infallible bhakti-
yoga for complete perfection.” One need not be anxious to propitiate
each and every demigod and goddess because the root of all of them is the
Personality of Godhead. As by pouring water on the root of the tree all
the branches and leaves are served and enlivened, so by rendering service
unto the Supreme Lord every god and goddess becomes automatically
served without extraneous effort. The Lord is all-pervading, and therefore
service unto Him is also all-pervading. This fact is corroborated in the
Skanda Purana as follows: “arcite deva-devege sankha-cakra-gadadhare.
arcitah sarva-devah syur yatah sarva-gato harih.”” When the Supreme Lord,
the Personality of Godhead, who carries in His hands a conchshell, wheel,
club, and lotus flower, is worshiped, certainly all other demigods are
worshiped automatically because Hari the Personality of Godhead is all-
pervading. Therefore, in all cases, namely nominative, objective, causative,
dative, ablative, possessive and supportive, everyone is benefitted by such
transcendental loving service of the Lord. The man who worships the Lord,
the Lord Himself who is worshiped, the cause for which the Lord is
worshiped, the source of supply, the place where such worship is done,
etc.—everything is benefitted by such an action.

Even during the annihilation of the material world, the process of
bhakti-yoga can be applied. Kalena nasta pralaye vaniyam: the Lord is
worshiped in devastation because He protects the Vedas from being
