Text 6] Lord Ramacandra Rules the World 109
grains, they would distribute grains in charity. A ksatriya’s duty is to
give charity, and a bréhmana’s duty is to accept charity, but not more
than needed to maintain body and soul together. Therefore, when the
bréhmanas were given so much land by Lord Ramacandra, they returned
it to Him and were not greedy.
TEXT 6
AT ATT HY ATA BT |
THAMES AT TA eA aaFaT UF I
aprattam nas tvayad kim nu
bhagavan bhuvanesvara
yan no ’ntar-hrdayam visya
tamo hamsi sva-rocisa

aprattam—not given; nah—unto us; tvaya—by Your Lordship;
kim—what; nu—indeed; bhagavan—O Supreme Lord; bhuvana-
isvara—O master of the whole universe; yat—because; nah—our;
antah-hrdayam—within the core of the heart; viSya—entering;
tamah—the darkness of ignorance; hamsi—You annihilate; sva-
rocisa—by Your own effulgence.

TRANSLATION

O Lord, You are the master of the entire universe. What have
You not given to us? You have entered the core of our hearts and
dissipated the darkness of our ignorance by Your effulgence. This
is the supreme gift. We do not need a material donation.

PURPORT

When Dhruva Maharaja was offered a benediction by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, he replied, “O my Lord, I am fully satisfied. I do
not need any material benediction.” Similarly, when Prahlada Maharaja
was offered a benediction by Lord Nrsirnhadeva, he also refused to accept
it and instead declared that a devotee should not be like a vanik, a mer-
cantile man who gives something in exchange for some profit. One who
becomes a devotee for some material profit is not a pure devotee.
