Text 21] The Residents of Jambiadvipa Offer Prayers 19]
ananyas cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupdasate
tesam nitydbhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy 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.
Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains that even if a devotee
wishes the Lord to fulfill a particular desire, the devotee should not be
considered a sakama-bhakta (a devotee with some motive). In the
Bhagavad-gita (7.16) Krsna says:
catur-vidha bhajante mar
Janah sukrtino ’rjuna
arto jijndsur artharthi
Jfidni ca bharatarsabha
‘O best among the Bharatas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render
devotional service unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the in-
quisitive and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.”” The
arta and the artharthi, who approach the Supreme Personality of
Godhead for relief from misery or for some money, are not sakdma-
bhaktas, although they appear to be. Being neophyte devotees, they are
simply ignorant. Later in Bhagavad-gita the Lord says, udarah sarva
evaite: they are all magnanimous (udarah). Although in the beginning a
devotee may harbor some desire, in due course of time it will vanish.
Therefore the Srimad-Bhdagavatam enjoins:
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kéma uddra-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta purusarh 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
