Pure love of Krishna transcends all material desire and expectation, making the devotee eternally steady and supremely satisfied.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: dāridrya-nāśa, bhava-kṣaya—premera 'phala' naya prema-sukha-bhoga-mukhya prayojana haya [Cc Madhya 20.142] [The goal of love of Godhead is not to become materially rich or free from material bondage. The real goal is to be situated in devotional service to the Lord and to enjoy transcendental bliss.] So by devotional service one should not expect, "My miserable material condition may be improved" or "I may be liberated from this material entanglement." So that is also a kind of sense gratification. If I want that "Let me be free from this entanglement..." Just like the yogīs and the jñānīs, they try. They try to be free from this material entanglement.
But in the devotional service there is no such desire. In the devo... Because it is pure love. There is no expectation that "I shall be profited in this way." No.
It is not a profitable, commercial business, that "Unless I get in return something, oh, I shall not practice this devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness." There is no question of profit. Lord Caitanya prays to the Lord like this: na dhanaṃ na janaṃ na sundarīṃ kavitāṃ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi [Cc Antya 20.29] [O Lord of the universe, I do not desire material wealth, materialistic followers, a beautiful wife or fruitive activities described in flowery language. All I want, life after life, is unmotivated devotional service to You.] "Oh," He says, "My dear Lord, Jagadīśa..." Jagadīśa means the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Jagat, jagat means this world, material world or spiritual world, all worlds.
Jagat. Jagat gacchati iti jagat: which is progressing, that is called jagat. So Jagat-īśa, the supreme master of this jagat, going concern. "Jagadīśa, O the supreme master of this jagat, I pray unto You that I do not want...," na dhanam, "I do not want any wealth," na janam, "I do not want any number of followers..." Na janaṃ na dhanaṃ na kavitāṃ vā jagadīśa kāmaye.
Kavitām means very nice wife, poetical. "I do not want." "Then what do You want?" Mama janmani janmanīśvare. Janmani janmani means "birth after birth." So He does not want liberation also. Because when we speak of liberation, there is no birth.
Mad-gatvā punar janma na vidyate: "One who reaches the kingdom of God, he hasn't got to come back again to take birth here." So here Lord Caitanya says, mama janmani janmani: "birth after birth." That means "I do not want liberation also." Mama janmani janmani. "Then what do You want?" Īśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī: "My dear Lord, I may be put in any condition of My life, but please bestow this benediction, that I may not forget. That's all." "I may not forget. Because due to My forgetfulness I am suffering so much. So if I can remember You, I don't mind in whatever condition I am." He has to give the factual fact.
Yaṃ labdhvā cāparaṃ lābham [Bg 6.22]. [The stage of perfection is called trance, or samādhi, when one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This is characterized by one's ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact.] In the Bhagavad-gītā in the Ninth..., Sixth Chapter we find in the yoga system, yaṃ labdhvā cāparaṃ lābhaṃ manyate nādhikaṃ tataḥ: "When one achieves that perfectional yoga," yaṃ labdhvā, "by gaining that perfection," yaṃ labdhvā cāparaṃ lābham, "then he has no other desire to achieve." Just like we achieve something in this material world, but that does not stop our desire to achieve something more. I may achieve millions of dollars, but that does not make me satisfied. I want further ten millions of dollars.