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Devotional Service
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so practiced that he is not disturbed by any outward disturbance. Actually because a devotee is always engrossed in Krṣna consciousness and engaged in devotional service, all such material circumstances cannot woo him. Generally a materialistic person becomes very happy when there is something for his sense gratification and his body, but when he sees that others have something for their sense gratification and he hasn't, he is sorry and envious. When he is expecting some retaliation from an enemy, he is in a state of fear, and when he cannot successfully execute something he becomes dejected. But a devotee is always transcendental to all these disturbances; therefore he is very dear to Krṣna.
TEXT 16
अनपेक्षः शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथः । 
    सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः ॥१६॥
anapekşah śucir dakşa udāsīno gata-vyathah sarvārambha-parityāgī yo mad-bhaktah sa me priyah
anapekṣaḥ —neutral;  śuciḥ —pure;  dakṣaḥ —expert;  udāsīnaḥ —free from care;  gata-vyathaḥ —freed from all distress;  sarva-ārambha —all endeavors;  parityāgī —renouncer;  yaḥ —anyone;  mat-bhaktaḥ —My devotee;  saḥ —he;  me —Me;  priyaḥ —very dear.
TRANSLATION
A devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and who does not strive for some result, is very dear to Me.
PURPORT
Money may be offered to a devotee, but he should not struggle to acquire it. If automatically, by the grace of the Supreme, money comes to him, he is not agitated. Naturally a devotee takes bath at least twice in a day and rises early in the morning for devotional service. Thus he is naturally clean both inwardly and outwardly. A devotee is always expert