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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 9]
nāti-prasīdati tathopacitopacārair 
    ārādhitaḥ sura-gaṇair hṛdi-baddha-kāmaiḥ 
    yat sarva-bhūta-dayayāsad-alabhyayaiko 
    nānā-janeṣv avahitaḥ suhṛd antar-ātmā
na—never; ati—very much; prasīdati—become satisfied; tathā—as much as; upacita—by pompous arrangement; upacāraiḥ—with much worshipable paraphernalia; ārādhitaḥ—being worshiped; sura-gaṇaiḥ—by the celestial demigods; hṛdi-baddha-kāmaiḥ—with hearts full of all sorts of material desires; yat—that which; sarva—all; bhūta—living entities; dayayā—to show them causeless mercy; asat—nondevotee; alabhyayā—not being achieved; ekaḥ—one without a second; nānā—various; janeṣu—in living entities; avahitaḥ—perceived; suhṛt—well-wishing friend; antaḥ—within; ātmā—Supersoul.
TRANSLATION
My Lord, You are not very much satisfied by the worship of the demigods who arrange for Your worship very pompously, with various paraphernalia, but who are full of material hankerings. You are situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul just to show Your causeless mercy, and You are the eternal well-wisher, but You are unavailable for the non-devotee.
PURPORT
The demigods in the celestial heavenly planets, who are appointed administrators of the material affairs, are also devotees of the Lord. But, at the same time, they have desire for material opulence and sense gratification. The Lord is so kind that He awards them all sorts of material happiness, more than they can desire, but He is not satisfied with them because they are not pure devotees. The Lord does not want any one of His innumerable sons (the living entities) to remain in the material world of threefold miseries to perpetually suffer the material pangs of birth, death, old age and disease. The demigods in the heavenly planets, and many devotees on this planet also, want to remain in the material world as devotees of the Lord and take advantage of material happiness. They do so at a risk of falling down to the lower status of existence, and this makes the Lord dissatisfied with them.
Pure devotees are not desirous of any material enjoyment, nor are they averse to it. They completely dovetail their desires with the desires of the Lord and perform nothing on their personal account. Arjuna is a good