110
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 16]
beautiful women or the prestige of having many followers. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, therefore, confidentially prayed,  mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi : “My Lord, please bless Me with Your devotional service. I do not want anything else.” A devotee may pray to be delivered from this material world. That is his only aspiration.
ayi nanda-tanuja kiṅkaraṁ patitaṁ māṁ viṣame bhavāmbudhau kṛpayā tava pāda-paṅkaja- sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśam vicintaya
The humble devotee simply prays to the Lord, “Kindly pick me up from the material world, which is full of varieties of material opulence, and keep me under the shelter of Your lotus feet.”
Śrīla Narottama dāsa Thākura prays:
hā hā prabhu nanda-suta, vṛṣabhānu-sutā-yuta, karuṇā karaha ei-bāra narottama-dāsa kaya, nā theliha rāṅgā-pāya, tomā vine ke āche āmāra
“O my Lord, O son of Nanda Mahārāja, now You are standing before me with Your consort, the daughter of Vṛṣabhānu, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Kindly accept me as the dust of Your lotus feet. Please do not kick me away, for I have no other shelter.”
Similarly, Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī indicates that the position of the demigods, who are decorated with golden helmets and other ornaments, is no better than a phantasmagoria ( tri-daśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate ). A devotee is never allured by such opulences. He simply aspires to become the dust of the lotus feet of the Lord.
TEXT 22
यस्तु महाकदम्बः सुपार्श्वनिरूढो यास्तस्य कोटरेभ्यो विनिःसृताः पञ्चाया- मपरिणाहाः पञ्च मधुधाराः सुपार्श्वशिखरात्पतन्त्योऽपरेणात्मानमिलावृतमनुमोद- यन्ति ॥२२॥