One professional reciter was reciting about Bhāgavata, and he was describing that Kṛṣṇa, being very highly decorated with all jewels, He is sent for tending the cows in the forest. There was a thief in that meeting. He thought that "Why not then go to Vṛndāvana and plunder this boy? He is in the forest with so many valuable jewels. I can go there and catch the child and take all the jewels." That was his intention. He was serious that "I must find that boy. Then in one night I shall become millionaire. So much jewellery.
He went there, but his qualification was that "I must see Kṛṣṇa, I must see Kṛṣṇa." That anxiety, that eagerness, made it possible that in Vṛndāvana he saw Kṛṣṇa. He saw Kṛṣṇa the same way as he was informed by the Bhāgavata reader. Then he saw, "Oh, oh, you are so nice boy, Kṛṣṇa." So he began to flatter. He thought that "By flattering, I shall take all the jewels" .
When he proposed his real business, "may I take some of your these ornaments? You are so rich."
"No, no, no. You... My mother will be angry. I cannot..." Kṛṣṇa said as a child.
He became more and more eager to flatter Kṛṣṇa. And by Kṛṣṇa's association, he had already become purified.
Then at last, Kṛṣṇa said, "All right, you can take."
By then he became a devotee because by Kṛṣṇa's association and refused to take the jewels.
Purport : In some way or other, we should come in contact with Kṛṣṇa. Then we'll be purified. One must be first of all faithful. He must be very much eager to see God, actually. Not as a proclivity, frivolous thing, "Can you show me God?" He must be very serious: "Yes, if there is God... , we have been informed about God. So I must see."
-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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