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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Just like in the material sense, if I got immense wealth, if I’ve got immense manpower—many servants, many children, many followers, many houses, many bank balances, much bank balance, all these things—so that is a kind of so-called satisfaction. So does Kṛṣṇa and His devotee require these kind of satisfaction by possessing more?
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[[Vanisource:690319 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-11 - Hawaii|690319 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-11 - Hawaii]]
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The Bhagavad-gītā, it will point that if you can achieve Kṛṣṇa . . . how you can achieve Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa does not require any service from you but the love. If you can achieve Kṛṣṇa, then you will feel that "I don’t require anything more." Yaṁ labdhvā: by gaining which a person thinks, "Complete, full."

Dhruva Mahārāja said when he saw Viṣṇu, he says, svāmin kṛtārtho ’smi varaṁ na yāce (CC Madhya 22.42)

"My dear Lord, my all desires and demands are now fulfilled. I don’t want anything." This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If actually one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, he has no more demand for anything material. Not by becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious, even by coming to the spiritual light one can become like that. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54)

As soon as one realizes his self, immediately he becomes joyful. So long there is demand for our sense gratification, you cannot be joyful. So nija-lābha-pūrṇo. Tad ekam danadi apramena samanan prakrtaiva bhagavan apityata nitiya (Śrīdhara Svāmī commentary). So this verse says "No."

Just like in the material sense, if I got immense wealth, if I’ve got immense manpower—many servants, many children, many followers, many houses, many bank balances, much bank balance, all these things—so that is a kind of so-called satisfaction. So does Kṛṣṇa and His devotee require these kind of satisfaction by possessing more?

This says, this verse says: "No, it is not that." Kṛṣṇa and His representative is not trying to possess more, just like ordinary man. You cannot say it like this. Tad ekam danadi apramena samanan prakrta (Śrīdhara Svāmī commentary).

Here in the material world they want to acquire riches and manpower. That is material desire, fulfillment of material desire. Does it mean that Kṛṣṇa and His devotee or His representative is like that, desiring to fulfill some material ambition by getting money and men? This verse says "No it is not that." Tad ekam danadi apramena samanan prakrtaiva bhagavan apityata (Śrīdhara Svāmī commentary).
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