na pāraye 'haṁ niravadya-saṁyujām"I am not able to repay your spotless union with Me" (SB 10.32.22)
Kṛṣṇa admits a debt He has nothing to repay with
na pāraye 'haṁ niravadya-saṁyujām
"I am not able to repay your spotless union with Me" (SB 10.32.22)
Listen to Gurudev
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"Kṛṣṇa can repay the devotees in Vaikuṇṭha, and the devotees in dāsya-sakhya, vātsalya — but in mādhurya I cannot reciprocate with you."
Kṛṣṇa says this not about others but about Himself, and says it as an admission of guilt. He goes through everyone He can settle accounts with: the residents of Vaikuṇṭha, the servants, the friends, the elders of Vraja — there reciprocation is possible. And He stops at the gopīs. Gurudeva opens the word saṁyujā: sam-yuj, full union, when nothing remains in the consciousness but Him — and adds niravadya, spotless. There is nothing to repay it with: any return gift is smaller than the gift. An empty pan of the scales, and on the other one flower that nothing outweighs.
Today accept one kindness without inventing a way to repay it.