Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.58

paricaryā bhagavato

yāvatyaḥ pūrva-sevitāḥ

tā mantra-hṛdayenaiva

prayuñjyān 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; prayuñjyāt — 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.

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, oḿ 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.

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