Dear All,
Hare Krishna. I have a question. There are instances when an honest and sincere devotee who may still have some materialistic attachments, loses his material assets / wealth. Is it because of past Bad Karma or because Krishna wants him to come closer to him and make spiritual progress by overcoming materialistic attachments.
Regards,
Karishma
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As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.88.8): yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ. Lord Kṛṣṇa says that He takes everything away from the devotee whom He especially favors when that devotee is overly attached to material possessions.
As it is said, yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ(Bhāg. 10.88.8). It is by the mercy of the Lord that one gets all material opulence, but if such material opulence causes one to become puffed up and forget the process of self-realization, the Lord certainly takes all the opulence away. …material opulence is sometimes dangerous because it diverts one’s attention to false prestige by giving one the impression that he is the owner and master of everything he surveys, although actually this is not the fact. To protect the devotee from such a misunderstanding, the Lord, showing special mercy, sometimes takes away his material possessions. Yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ.
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.22.16 Purport)
Kṛṣṇa says: “If I specially favor anybody, then I take away all his sources of income." That is Kṛṣṇa’s special favor.
"If Kṛṣṇa likes you, He’ll give you everything; if He loves you He’ll take everything away."