110 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 16
beautiful women or the prestige of having many followers. Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, therefore, confidentially prayed, mama janmani jan-
manisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki 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-tanyja kinkaram
patitam mam visame bhavambudhau
krpayd tava pdda-pankaja-
sthita-dhili-sadrsam 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.”
Srila Narottama dasa Thakura prays:
ha ha prabhu nanda-suta, vrsabhdnu-sutd-yuta,
karunéa karaha ei-bara
narottama-dasa kaya, na theliha ranga-paya,
toma vine ke dche Gmara
“O my Lord, O son of Nanda Maharaja, now You are standing before me
with Your consort, the daughter of Vrsabhanu, Srimati Radharani.
Kindly accept me as the dust of Your lotus feet. Please do not kick me
away, for I have no other shelter.”

Similarly, Prabodhananda Sarasvati indicates that the position of the
demigods, who are decorated with golden helmets and other ornaments,
is no better than a phantasmagoria (tri-dasa-piuir Gkasa-puspdyate). A
devotee is never allured by such opulences. He simply aspires to become
the dust of the lotus feet of the Lord.

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