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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
kim te kāmāḥ sura-spārhā mukunda-manaso dvijāḥ adhijahur mudaṁ rājñaḥ kṣudhitasya yathetare
kim —what for;  te —all those;  kāmāḥ —objects of sense enjoyment;  sura —of the denizens of heaven;  spārhāḥ —aspirations;  mukunda-manasaḥ —of one who is already God conscious;  dvijāḥ —O  brāhmaṇas ;  adhijahuḥ —could satisfy;  mudam —pleasure;  rājñaḥ —of the king;  kṣudhitasya —of the hungry;  yathā —as it is;  itare —in other things.
TRANSLATION
O  brāhmaṇas , the opulence of the King was so enchanting that the denizens of heaven aspired for it. But because he was absorbed in the service of the Lord, nothing could satisfy him except the Lord's service.
PURPORT
There are two things in the world which can satisfy living beings. When one is materially engrossed, he is satisfied only by sense gratification, but when one is liberated from the conditions of the material modes, he is satisfied only by rendering loving service for the satisfaction of the Lord. This means that the living being is constitutionally a  servitor , and not one who is  served . Being illusioned by the conditions of the external energy, one falsely thinks himself to be the served, but actually he is not served; he is servant of the senses like lust, desire, anger, avarice, pride, madness and intolerance. When one is in his proper senses by attainment of spiritual knowledge, he realizes that he is not the master of the material world but is only a servant of the senses. At that time he begs for the service of the Lord and thus becomes happy without being illusioned by so-called material happiness. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was one of the liberated souls, and therefore for him there was no pleasure in a vast kingdom, good wife, obedient brothers, happy subjects and prosperous world. These blessings automatically follow for a pure devotee, even though the devotee does not aspire for them. The example set herein is exactly suitable. It is said that one who is hungry is never satisfied by anything other than food.
The whole material world is full of hungry living beings. The hunger is not for good food, shelter or sense gratification.  The hunger is for the spiritual atmosphere.  Due to ignorance only they think that the world is