patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati🔗

'If one offers Me with love and devotion, a leaf, flower, fruit or water, I will accept it,' He says, 'The Existence, the Divine is so alive that It responds to even simple things.'

Please be very clear, He doesn't say, I accept only big things. He says, even simple things, I accept.

patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tadahaṁ bhaktyupahṛtaṁ aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ

'If one offers Me a leaf, flower, fruit or water with love and devotion, I will accept it.' This is the greatness of the Divine. The greatness of the Lord is that He is simple. Simplicity is the greatness of the Lord. Please be very clear, simplicity is the real greatness. To be big, you don't need intelligence. Any one can show himself as big.

There is a small beautiful saying in Zen:

A Zen disciple was behaving very humbly, respecting everybody. The master told him, 'Don't be so humble, you are not that great!'

To be humble, you need to be great!

Simplicity is the great quality of the Divine. He says, 'patraṁ, puṣpaṁ, phalaṁ, toyaṁ. Just a leaf, a flower, a fruit, a little water... simple things are enough. I accept it. I am pleased. I respond to it.'

He says in the fourth verse of this chapter: