Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.81.16

kvāhaḿ daridraḥ pāpīyān

kva kṛṣṇaḥ śrī-niketanaḥ

brahma-bandhur iti smāhaḿ

bāhubhyāḿ parirambhitaḥ

SYNONYMS

kva — who am; aham — I; daridraḥ — poor; pāpīyān — sinful; kva — who is; kṛṣṇaḥ — Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; śrī-niketanaḥ — the transcendental form of all opulence; brahma-bandhuḥ — the friend of a brāhmaṇa, not fit even to be called a brāhmaṇa; iti — thus; sma — certainly; aham — I; bāhubhyām — by the arms; parirambhitaḥ — embraced.

TRANSLATION

Who am I? A sinful, poor friend of a brāhmaṇa. And who is Kṛṣṇa? The Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences. Nonetheless, He has embraced me with His two arms.

PURPORT

This translation is from Śrīla Prabhupāda's English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 7.143).

Sudāmā was so humble that he considered his poverty to be his own fault, a result of sin. Such a mentality is in accord with the saying, dāridrya-doṣo guṇa-rāśi-nāśī: "The discrepancy of being poor ruins heaps of good qualities."

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