172 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 18
very soon; na—not: tathd—so much; indriya-priyah—a person at-
tached to sense gratification.

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the
prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends,
bank balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment,
let it be for devotees, whose only dear friend is Krsna. A person
who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is
perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try
to gratify his senses. Such a person quickly advances in Krsna con-
sciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to material
things, find advancement very difficult.

PURPORT

When Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu was requested to explain the
duty of a Vaisnava, a Krsna conscious person, He immediately said, asat-
sanga-tyaga, —ei vaisnava-dacara. The first business of a Vaisnava is to
give up the association of persons who are not devotees of Krsna and who
are too attached to material things—wife, children, bank balance and so
on. Prahlada Maharaja also prays to the Personality of Godhead that he
may avoid the association of nondevotees attached to the materialistic
way of life. If he must be attached to someone, he prays to be attached
only to a devotee.

A devotee is not interested in unnecessarily increasing the demands of
the senses for gratification. Of course, as long as one is in this material
world, one must have a material body, and it must be maintained for
executing devotional service. The body can be maintained very easily by
eating krsna-prasdda. As Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (9.26):

patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah
“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I
will accept it.” Why should the menu be unnecessarily increased for the
