Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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niṣkiñcanāḥ
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having no possessions
Niṣ (without) + kiñcana (anything). The Caitanya-line's high virtue (cf. Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya 11.8, niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya). Mahāprabhu Himself takes sannyāsa as the supreme niṣkiñcana. Kṛṣṇa here speaks the Gauḍīya watchword.
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niṣkiñcana-jana-priyāḥ
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very dear to those who have no possessions
Compound: niṣkiñcana (possessionless) + jana (person) + priya (dear). The doctrine is exact: He inclines toward those who own nothing. He says it to His queen, who owns everything — except, the chapter will prove, anything but Him.
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āḍhyāḥ
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the wealthy
From āḍhya. The wealthy 'hardly worship Me' — the verse names the obstacle of opulence. Yet Rukmiṇī, surrounded by Dvārakā's gold, holds the akiñcana heart: that is the paradox the chapter resolves.
Like the Lord, His devotees are uninterested in material sense gratification, being awakened to the superior pleasure of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Those who are intoxicated by material wealth cannot appreciate the supreme wealth of the kingdom of God.
"I am without any wealth, in the sense that I have no attraction at all for material acquisition."
Those with a little wealth do not worship me. In verse 20 he says he is indifferent to wife and children. Thus in this verse he says he has nothing (niskiñcana). Moreover those who have nothing are attracted to me or I am attracted to persons with nothing. I am always with nothing and persons with nothing are always attracted to me. Therefore the wealthy, except for the wealthy who are internally detached (prayaḥ), do not worship me. Since you have wealth as a king’s daughter, you should not serve me, since it is not possible for you to renounce.
Since I have no wealth, I should not have married you. Or since I am poor, I am dear to poor people, not wealthy kings. “You may not have wealth, but you can become wealthy by making friends with people who have wealth.” I am friendly with the poor or the poor are friendly to me. This is constant in both cases. The wealth do not worship me to increase their wealth by offering wealth. Thus you should not worship me if you expect increase of wealth by offering your wealth.
- Where does your wealth quietly distance you from Kṛṣṇa's actual circle?
- Could you cultivate a poverty of grasping even within material comfort?
An emperor in disguise as a wandering sādhu says, 'I have nothing — only the empty-handed care for Me.' The kingdom is His; the disguise is His; the testimony is true at one level and a tease at another. Bhagavān is akiñcana — and akiñcanas are dear to Him.
In SB 10.80–81, Kṛṣṇa's poor childhood friend Sudāmā arrives at Dvārakā with a handful of flat rice tied in a torn cloth. The Lord, seeing him, leaps from His throne, embraces him, washes his feet, and weeps over him.
The verse's claim — 'We are dear to those who similarly have nothing' — is the very theology of the Sudāmā episode. Akiñcana-priya is Bhagavān's permanent disposition; Rukmiṇī's queenly opulence is the test the chapter is staging.
My note
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