Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 26
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति । तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः
patraṃ puṣpaṃ phalaṃ toyaṃ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati | tadahaṃ bhaktyupahṛtamaśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
Translation
When one offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water — that I eat, offered with devotion by the pure-minded.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- patram
- a leaf
- puṣpam
- a flower
- phalam
- a fruit
- toyam
- water
- yaḥ
- who
- me
- (of) to me
- bhaktyā
- with devotion
- prayacchati
- offers
- tat
- that
- aham
- I
- bhaktyupahṛtam
- with devotion, offered
- aśnāmi
- eat
- prayatātmanaḥ
- striving, self, whose, of him
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Devotion to the Lord is so easy that even a leaf, flower, fruit, or water offered with sincere devotion is accepted by Him.