Krishna personally sustains His devotees who meditate on Him constantly, guaranteeing they will never want for anything in life.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ananyāś cintayanto māṃ ye janāḥ paryupāsate teṣāṃ nityābhiyuktānāṃ yoga-kṣemaṃ vahāmy aham [Bg 9.22] [But those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form-to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.] Now Lord Kṛṣṇa is speaking about His own devotees. So far He has spoken about the elevationist, materialist elevationist. Evaṃ trayī-dharmam anuprapannā gatāgataṃ kāma-kāmā labhante [Bg 9.21]. [When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness.] Repeating, repeating the same process: sometimes going up, sometimes coming down—this is the material process.
Today I am the richest man, and tomorrow I may be a poverty-stricken man in the street. This is going on. As we find in this earth, so also by our pious activities we can be promoted in better planets. Then kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṃ viśanti [Bg 9.21].
And when the resultant action of pious activities is finished, then again we are driven to this earth or down than this earth. So this is going on. Lord Caitanya said that ei rūpe brahmāṇòa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva [Cc Madhya 19.151], [According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.] that "This way, this cycle of different species of life, they are going on. So traveling in this way, somebody who is very fortunate, by association of devotees, he gets the seed of devotional service." Ei rūpe brahmāṇòa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva. To achieve the seed of devotional service is a fortunate achievement. It is not very easy, because it ceases the cycle of different transmigration of the soul.
By ignorance we take this spot life as permanent settlement, and we think that "We shall live here permanently and make arrangement to live here permanently, and make assets for my children, for my nation." But we do not know that the cycle of transmigration is not fixed up. I do not know what next life is mine. I do not know where is the..., who is coming as my son, who is coming, who is going out of the scene as my son. These laws we do not know. But we are chewing the chewed.
Evaṃ gatāgataṃ kāma-kāmā labhante [Bg 9.21]. Under the spell of this illusory energy, we are captivated by this temporary sense gratification and we have forgotten our real life. So those who are in the sense of his real constitution..., of their real constitutional position, as Bhagavad-gītā started from the very beginning... This very conception, that "I am this body," beginning from, beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā this is discredited, that "You are not this body." So you have to mold your life in your identification of spiritual existence. So, so far the materialist is concerned, they are chewing the chewed. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30]. [Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Kṛṣṇa are never aroused, either by the instructions of others, by their own efforts, or by a combination of both.] The example, which I gave you the last day, that as sugarcane, one has extracted all the juice by chewing, and it is again thrown into the, on the earth, and somebody is chewing, so there is no juice. So we are simply repeating the same thing. Same thing. We do not question that whether this process of life can at all give us happiness.
But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing. The ultimate purpose of sense gratification and the highest, topmost sense gratification is sex life. So we are trying, chewing, eschewing, you see, extracting. But that is not the process of happiness. The happiness is different.
Sukham ātyantikaṃ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam [Bg 6.21]. [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.] Real happiness is transcendental. And that transcendental means that I must understand what is my position and what is my process of life. In this way this Kṛṣṇa consciousness will teach you.