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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 8]
PURPORT
Devotional service to the Lord is very much obliging to Him. There are many transcendentalists in different fields of spiritual activities, but devotional service to the Lord is unique. Devotees do not ask anything from the Lord in exchange for their service. Even the most desirable liberation is refused by devotees although offered by the Lord. Thus the Lord becomes a kind of debtor to the devotees, and He can only try to repay the devotees' service with His ever-enchanting smile. The devotees are ever satisfied by the smiling face of the Lord, and they become enlivened. And by seeing the devotees so enlivened, the Lord Himself is further satisfied. So there is continuous transcendental competition between the Lord and His devotees by such reciprocation of service and acknowledgement.
TEXT 28
कदम्बकिञ्जल्कपिशङ्गवाससा 
  स्वलंकृतं मेखलया नितम्बे । 
  हारेण चानन्तधनेन वत्स 
  श्रीवत्सवक्षःस्थलवल्लभेन ॥२८॥ 
  kadamba-kiñjalka-piśaṅga-vāsasā 
  sv-alaṅkṛtam mekhalayā nitambe 
  hāreṇa cānanta-dhanena vatsa 
  śrīvatsa-vakṣaḥ-sthala-vallabhena
kadamba-kiñjalka—saffron dust of the kadamba flower; piśaṅga—dress of the color; vāsasā—by clothing; sv-alaṅkṛtam—well decorated; mekhalayā—by the belt; nitambe—on the waist; hāreṇa—by the garland; ca—also; ananta—highly; dhanena—valuable; vatsa—my dear Vidura; śrīvatsa—of the transcendental stone; vakṣaḥ-sthala—on the chest; vallabhena—very pleasing.
TRANSLATION
O my dear Vidura, the Lord's waist was covered with yellow colored cloth resembling the saffron dust of the kadamba flower, and it was encircled by a well-decorated belt. His chest was decorated with the highly valuable śrīvatsa jewel and a necklace of unlimited value.
TEXT 29
परार्घ्यकेयूरमणिप्रवेक- 
  पर्यस्तदोर्दण्डसहस्रशाखम् ।