Text 8] Understanding Material Nature 1143
he does, he offers for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.
TEXT 8
Teese Arde faze gta: |
AN
fafa: ara AT: HET MATT NN <I
yadrcchayopalabdhena
santusto mita-bhun munih
vivikta-saranah santo
maitrah karuna adtmavan

yadrcchayd—without difficulty; upalabdhena—with what is obtained;
santustah—satisfied; mita—little; bhuk—eating; munih—thoughtful; vivik ta-
Saranah—living in a secluded place; sdntah—peaceful; maitrah—friendly;
karunah—compassionate; atma-van—self-possessed, self-realized.

TRANSLATION

For his income a devotee should be satisfied with what he earns without
great difficulty. He should not eat more than what is necessary. He should
live in a secluded place and always be thoughtful, peaceful, friendly, com-
passionate and self-realized.

PURPORT

Everyone who has accepted a material body must maintain the necessi-
ties of the body by acting or earning some livelihood. A devotee should
only work for such income as is absolutely necessary. He should be
satisfied always with such income and should not endeavor to earn more
and more simply to accumulate the unnecessary. A person in the
conditioned state who has no money is always found to be working very
hard to earn some with the object of lording it over material nature.
Kapiladeva instructs that we should not endeavor hard for things which
may come automatically, without extraneous labor. The exact word used
in this connection, yadrechaya, means that every living entity has a pre-
destined happiness and distress in his present body ; this is called the law of
karma. \t is not possible that simply by endeavors to accumulate more
money a person will be able to do so, otherwise almost everyone would be
on the same level of wealth. In reality everyone is earning and acquiring
according to his predestined karma. According to the Bhagavatam con-
