naivopayanty apacitiṠkavayas taveśa
brahmÄyuá¹£Äpi ká¹›tam á¹›ddha-mudaḥ smarantaḥ
yo 'ntar bahis tanu-bhá¹›tÄm aÅ›ubhaá¹ vidhunvann
ÄcÄrya-caittya-vapuá¹£Ä sva-gatiá¹ vyanakti
na eva - not at all; upayanti - are able to express; apacitim - their gratitude; kavayaḥ - learned devotees; tava - Your; īśa - O Lord; brahma-Äyuá¹£Ä - with a lifetime equal to Lord BrahmÄ's; api - in spite of; ká¹›tam - magnanimous work; á¹›ddha - increased; mudaḥ - joy; smarantaḥ - remembering; yaḥ - who; antaḥ - within; bahiḥ - outside; tanu-bhá¹›tÄm - of those who are embodied; aÅ›ubham - misfortune; vidhunvan - dissipating; ÄcÄrya - of the spiritual master; caittya - of the Supersoul; vapuá¹£Ä - by the forms; sva - own; gatim - path; vyanakti - shows.
According to ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ«, Lord Kṛṣṇa is ten million times more dear to a devotee than life itself. And according to ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura, even by rendering devotional service for the total duration of one thousand universal creations, a devotee cannot repay the debt he feels to the Lord for having awarded him loving service to the Lord’s lotus feet. The Lord appears within the heart as the Supersoul and externally both as the spiritual master and as His literary incarnation — the supreme Vedic knowledge of Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ and ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam.