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[Canto 7, Ch. 10]
pious. Therefore, a pure devotee is  anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam . He has no desire for material profit, nor does the Lord induce him to try to profit materially. When a devotee needs something, the Supreme Personality of Godhead supplies it ( yoga-kṣemam vahāmy aham ).
Sometimes materialists go to a temple to offer flowers and fruit to the Lord because they have learned from  Bhagavad-gītā  that if a devotee offers some flowers and fruits, the Lord accepts them. In  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.26) the Lord says:
patram puṣpam phalam toyam yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tad aham bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” Thus a man with a mercantile mentality thinks that if he can get some material benefit, like a large amount of money, simply by offering a little fruit and flower, this is good business. Such persons are not accepted as pure devotees. Because their desires are not purified, they are still mercantile men, even though they go to temples to make a show of being devotees.  Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam : only when one is fully freed from material desires can one be purified, and only in that purified state can one serve the Lord.  Hṛṣīkena hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate . This is the pure devotional platform.
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आशासानो न वै भृत्यः स्वामिन्याशिष आत्मनः । न स्वामी भृत्यतः स्वाम्यमिच्छन् यो राति चाशिषः॥ ५ ॥
āśāsāno na vai bhṛtyaḥ svāminy āśiṣa ātmanaḥ na svāmī bhṛtyataḥ svāmyam icchan yo rāti cāśiṣaḥ
āśāsānaḥ —a person who desires (in exchange for service);  na —not;  vai —indeed;  bhṛtyaḥ —a qualified servant or pure devotee of the Lord;