Verse Text
yathā –
gurum api guru-vāsa-kleśam avyāja-bhaktyā
harir ajagaṇad antaḥ komalāṅgo ’pi nāyam |
prakṛtir ati-durūhā hanta lokottarāṇāṁ
kim api manasi citraṁ cintyamānā tanoti ||110||
Translation
Though Kṛṣṇa’s body was very soft, He did not consider in His heart the intolerable difficulties of living at the house of guru, because of His sincere devotion. One becomes amazed on contemplating the inscrutable character of extraordinary people.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
When Kṛṣṇa was residing at the place of His spiritual master, He did not mind taking all troubles in rendering service to His guru, although His body was very soft and delicate. It is the duty of the disciple to execute all services unto the spiritual master, despite all kinds of difficulties. The disciple living at the residence of the spiritual master has to go begging from door to door and bring everything back to the spiritual master. When prasāda is being served, the spiritual master is supposed to call each and every disciple to come eat. If by chance the spiritual master forgets to call a disciple to partake of the prasāda, it is enjoined in the scriptures that the student should fast on that day rather than accept food on his own initiative. There are many such strictures. Sometimes, also, Kṛṣṇa went to the forest to collect dry wood for fuel.