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Understanding the mind of Sudāmā Vipra, the Lord said, “My dear friend, I am certainly not in need of On the other hand, if a person is not a devotee, even though he may offer Me very valuable things, I do not like to accept them. accept only things offered to Me in devotion and love; otherwise, however valuable a thing may be, I do not flower, a little piece of leaf, a little water – but saturates the offering in devotional love, then not

I do not want any opulence. I only desire not to forget His service. Therefore, even when His devotee asks for some opulence from Him, the Lord sometimes does not give it if offered great opulence, fall from his position due to being in the material world, the Lord does not His first interest is that the devotee not fall. He is exactly like a well-wishing father who does not give much wealth into the hand of his immature

What the devotee actually offers the Lord is not needed by the Lord, for He is self-sufficient. One does not become a loser by giving to the Lord; one becomes a gainer by millions of times.

The learned brāhmaṇa Sudāmā did not appear to have received anything substantial from Lord Kṛṣṇa while at His palace, yet he did not ask anything from the Lord.

Those who are simply learned are paṇḍitas but not yet devotees of the Lord, or Vaiṣṇavas. Lord Kṛṣṇa is not especially pleased with them. Simply the qualification of being a learned brāhmaṇa is not sufficient to attract the Supreme Personality Not only must a brāhmaṇa be well qualified according to the requirements stated in scriptures such as

learned brāhmaṇa thus concluded that whatever opulences he had received from the Lord should be used not beauty, it is our duty to consider that they are all gifts of the Lord and must be used for His service, not remained in that position, and thus his love and affection for Lord Kṛṣṇa increased day after day; it did not

I do not find any cause other than the all-merciful glance of my friend Lord Kṛṣṇa, the chief of the And yet when the cultivator wakes up in the morning, he thinks that it has not rained enough. Similarly, the Lord fulfills the desire of everyone according to his position, yet one who is not in

When the brāhmaṇa entered his personal apartment in the palace, he saw that it was not an apartment but When the brāhmaṇa saw his position suddenly changed to one of opulence, and when he could not determine

Therefore, the Lord does not offer opulences to His devotee unless the devotee is thoroughly tested.

Kṛṣṇa thought, “Sudāmā has not come asking anything from Me; being obliged by the request of his wife

He encouraged Sudāmā Vipra, saying, “I consider that this quantity of chipped rice will satisfy not only

Not only were there big palaces, but at intervals there were beautifully decorated parks, in which many

present before her, tears of joy fell from her eyes, and her voice became so choked up that she could not

because wherever Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original Nārāyaṇa, and Rukmiṇī-devī, the goddess of fortune, live is not

Yet the Lord was so kind to me that He did not give me even a farthing, knowing very well that I am a