Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 9, verse 26
Perhaps the Gita's most loved verse on simple worship: a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, offered with love, is enough.
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पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति ।तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः ॥
patraṃ puṣpaṃ phalaṃ toyaṃ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati |tadahaṃ bhaktyupahṛtamaśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ ||
Whoever offers me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, that offering of love from a pure heart I accept.
जो कोई भक्ति से मुझे एक पत्ता, फूल, फल या जल अर्पित करता है, शुद्ध मन वाले उस भक्त की प्रेम से दी गई भेंट को मैं स्वीकार करता हूँ।
जो कोणी भक्तीने मला पान, फूल, फळ किंवा पाणी अर्पण करतो, त्या शुद्ध मनाच्या भक्ताने प्रेमाने दिलेली ती भेट मी स्वीकारतो.
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पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति ।तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः ॥
यान्ति देवव्रता देवान्पितॄन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः ।
Those devoted to the gods go to the gods; those devoted to the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship spirits go to the spirits; and those who worship me come to me.
9.27यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् ।
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice, whatever you give, whatever discipline you practise, Arjuna, do it as an offering to me.
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