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

3 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: CC(2) , TLC(1)

 na eva - not at all; upayanti - are able to express; apacitim - their gratitude; kavayaḥ - learned devotees; tava - Your; Ä«Å›a - 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.


Text

O my Lord! Transcendental poets and experts in spiritual science could not fully express their indebtedness to You, even if they were endowed with the prolonged lifetime of BrahmÄ, for You appear in two features — externally as the ÄcÄrya and internally as the Supersoul — to deliver the embodied living being by directing him how to come to You.

Purport

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.