Text 21] The Residents of Jambūdvīpa Offer Prayers
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ananyāś cintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham
The Supreme Lord personally takes care of anyone who is completely engaged in His devotional service. Whatever he has, the Lord protects, and whatever he needs, the Lord supplies. Therefore why should one bother the Lord for something material? Such prayers are unnecessary.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura explains that even if a devotee wishes the Lord to fulfill a particular desire, the devotee should not be considered a  sakāma-bhakta  (a devotee with some motive). In the  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.16) Kṛṣṇa says:
catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ sukṛtino 'rjuna ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha
“O best among the Bharatas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.” The  ārta  and the  arthārthī , who approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead for relief from misery or for some money, are not  sakāma-bhaktas , although they appear to be. Being neophyte devotees, they are simply ignorant. Later in  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord says,  udārāḥ sarva evaite : they are all magnanimous ( udārāḥ ). Although in the beginning a devotee may harbor some desire, in due course of time it will vanish. Therefore the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  enjoins:
akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena yajeta puruṣaṁ param
“A person who has broader intelligence, whether he is full of all material desire, is free from material desire, or has a desire for liberation, must