True devotion requires complete material detachment; Krishna's grace flows through loss, not accumulation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.27 — April 19, 1973, Los Angeles 730419SB-LOS ANGELES [39:08 Minutes] SB-01.08.27_730419SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [05:07] [prema-dhvāṇī prayers] Thank you very much. [break] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
[leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] namo 'kiñcana vittāya nivṛtta-guṇa-vṛttaye ātmārāmāya śāntāya kaivalya-pataye namaḥ [SB 1.8.27] Prabhupāda: Now ladies. Ladies. [ladies chant] That's all right. Now, word meaning.
Pradyumna: namaḥ—all obeisances unto You; akiñcana-vittāya—unto the property of the materially impoverished; nivṛtta—completely transcendental to the actions of the material modes; guṇa—material modes; vṛttaye—affection; ātma-ārāmāya—one who is self-satisfied; śāntāya—the most gentle; kaivalya-pataye—unto the master of the monists; namaḥ—bowing down. [12:53] Translation: "My obeisances are unto You, who are the property of the materially impoverished. You have nothing to do with the actions and reactions of the material modes of nature. You are self-satisfied, and therefore You are the most gentle and are master of the monists." Prabhupāda: So, namaḥ akiñcana-vitta.
Materially impoverished. This is the first qualification of a devotee. One who does not possess anything of this material world, he simply possess Kṛṣṇa, that is akiñcana-vitta. Akiñcana means one who has lost everything of material possession.
Because if you have got a..., a small tinge of idea that "I want to become happy materially in this way," so long you have to accept a body. The nature is so kind that in whichever way you want to enjoy this material world, she will give you a suitable body under the direction of the Lord. The Lord is situated everyone's heart. So He knows everything, that you still want something material. He will give you: "Yes, you take it." Kṛṣṇa wants that you get full experience that by material gain, you'll never be happy.
This is Kṛṣṇa's business, this full freedom. Although we have got minute quantity of freedom, because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—Kṛṣṇa has got full freedom—but the freedom quality is there in me because I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. The chemical composition. The drop of seawater has got a drop of salt also.
Although it is not comparable with the salt containing in the seawater, but the salt chemical is there. This is our understanding. Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. Whatever we have got in minute quantity, the same thing in fullness is there in Kṛṣṇa.