Real Intelligence

Those who are intelligent never ask Krishna for anything. They only want Krishna. Although they may apparently seem to be very poor, wretched and distressed, actually they are very, very wealthy persons. Therefore they are known as maharajas, kings of the kings. Great kings come and bow down to them.

There was once a very opulent king who was also very charitable. One day he told all of his ministers, commanders, and other officers working under him, beginning from the lowest to the most important officers, "You may ask whatever you want from me, I'll give you.?

The ministers, commanders, and other important officers requested many opulent things. One asked for a good wife. Someone else asked for much wealth.
Another wanted a nice building. So many things!

The king also had a very low-class person who would clean the garbage. He was a very poor sweeper. The king asked him, "What do you want?" The sweeper said, "O king, I don?t want anything. I only want that your lotus feet will touch my poor, humble cottage. This is all I want. I don?t want anything else from you." He was the most intelligent person because he didn?t ask for wealth, a promotion, or any of the other things that the others had asked for. He only wanted that the king would come to his humble cottage.

The king granted his wish: "All right. On a certain day we'll go." When a king goes somewhere, he never goes alone. He goes with all of his paraphernalia, ministers, and commanders, with great pomp and ceremony, and in a grand procession. And wherever the king stays, royal palaces should be built, otherwise how would the king stay there?

Thus in order to receive the king, the sweeper's humble cottage was transformed into a royal king's palace. Consider what this sweeper got and what the others got. The sweeper was intelligent.

Therefore in His Siksastaka, verse three, Mahaprabhu has said:
na dhanaa na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi
O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women, nor do I want any number of followers. I only want the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth. This is an intelligent prarthana, prayer. "I don't want anything. I only want to serve Your lotus feet."

Like the sweeper who only wanted the king to place his feet in his home, we should only want that Krishna's lotus feet be here. It may seem that this is an ugly or a wretched place, but no, it is Krishna's place.

Brahma-samhita 5.29 states, lakshmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam - innumerable goddesses of fortune will come to serve Krishna. Such a person who prays for Krishna is the most intelligent person.

Krishna is purna-brahma ? He is completely full. If one has Krishna, how will there be any shortage? One who understands this has real intelligence.