Verse 2.4.222

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.222:

यथा च तत्र तत्-कालं भक्तेर् योग्यं न सत्-फलम् ।
सञ्जातम् इति तच्-छुद्ध-भक्तिमद्भिर् विनिन्द्यते ॥ २२२ ॥

yathā ca tatra tat-kālaṃ bhakter yogyaṃ na sat-phalam |
sañjātam iti tac-chuddha-bhaktimadbhir vinindyate || 222 ||

yathā–as; ca–also; tatra–there; tat-kālam–at that time; bhakteḥ–of devotional service; yogyam–proper; na–not; satphalam–the transcendental result; sañjātam–born; iti–thus; tat–that; śuddha-bhakti-madbhiḥ–by pure devotees; vinindyate–it is condemned.

In the stage of possessing material desires (sakāma-avasthā), one does not obtain the principal result of devotional service immediately. Therefore, pure devotees condemn sakāma-bhakti (fruitive devotion).

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Nārada says, “By the practice of sakāmabhakti, or devotion with the desire for material reward, the topmost result is not achieved in the beginning, but it does come after some delay. In other words, the appropriate result of worship is not received during the self-interested, sakāma stage of devotion. Therefore, unalloyed devotees condemn the fruitive desires of sakāma worshipers. Similarly, high-class worshipers also reproach the neophytes who see Bhagavān as separate from His Deity.”