196 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 5
dehinam—of persons; visaya-artanam—who are eager to enjoy the ma-
terial world; na—not; tatha—like that; eva—indeed; arpitam—dedi-
cated; tvayi—unto Your Lordship.
TRANSLATION

Karmis are always anxious to accumulate wealth for their sense
gratification, but for that purpose they must work very hard. Yet
even though they work hard, the results are not satisfying. Indeed,
sometimes their work results only in frustration. But devotees
who have dedicated their lives to the service of the Lord can
achieve substantial results without working very hard. These
results exceed the devotee’s expectations.

PURPORT

We can practically see how the devotees who have dedicated their lives
for the service of the Lord in the Krsna consciousness movement are get-
ting immense opportunities for the service of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead without working very hard. The Krsna consciousness move-
ment actually started with only forty rupees, but now it has more than
forty crores worth of property, and all this opulence has been achieved
within eight or ten years. No karmi can expect to improve his business so
swiftly, and besides that, whatever a karmi acquires is temporary and
sometimes frustrating. In Krsna consciousness, however, everything is
encouraging and improving. The Krsna consciousness movement is not
very popular with the karmis because this movement recommends that
one refrain from illicit sex, meat-eating, gambling and intoxication.
These are restrictions that karmis very much dislike. Nonetheless, in the
presence of so many enemies, this movement is progressing, going for-
ward without impediments. If the devotees continue to spread this move-
ment, dedicating life and soul to the lotus feet of Krsna, no one will be
able to check it. The movement will go forward without limits. Chant
Hare Krsna!

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