​Are the material needs of pure devotees automatically provided for by Krishna?

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So in the case of pure devotees their material needs are also provided for when they are when they practice bhakti yes that is true at the same time that is not the Vedic standard in the sense that even if we see Krishna he actually comes to establish dharma and he creates a system for establishing dharma so basically he is actually creating a material system for the maintenance of dharma and when there is a disturbance in the material system he says I myself distend for what? for re-establishing the system so it is not that the miraculous is the expected standard there can be miraculous interventions when Krishna comes and protects his devotees and even satisfies their material needs but that is never the standard that is miraculous and that points to the exalted nature of that particular devotee and the great love of Krishna for that point but it is not that that is the standard at all so there is the Vedic culture so for example in the traditional system it was if there is a temple temples are not necessarily normally themselves earning sources so people have to come and give charity there is a big temple and sufficient people don’t give charity how will the temple go on so what would be the tradition would be is that people would give cows and people would give land and then the brahmana priests who were looking after the temple you know they would employ shudras who would till the land and the shudras would also get some of the grains and after that the grains from there would be used to offer bhoga and the families would be fed most of the brahmanas would be the families would be fed so it is not that if a person is a priest and he has a family it is not that they are expected to simply depend on charity there is a system created over there the system was the temple temple cannot sustain itself always by charity so then there has to be a system for which the temple can also have some reliable source of food and things like that so the exceptional is meant to the extraordinary is meant to inspire us to practice the ordinary with greater faith what do you mean by this see Bhagavatam 6th Canto describes Ajaman’s pastime where Ajaman just chants once the name of Narayan and he is delivered now after hearing this Parikshit Maharaj doesn’t say I don’t have to hear Bhagavatam 7 days I will just chant once Narayan when the snake devils comes to bite he doesn’t say that he keeps hearing the Bhagavatam so the miraculous the extraordinary that is meant to inspire us Krishna is so merciful, Krishna is so kind and if Krishna can do so much for those devotees if I practice bhakti lifelong then how much Krishna will take care of me so it is not that the extraordinary examples of Krishna’s intervention they are meant we are not meant to make them as our standard expectations they are meant to increase our faith in Krishna that if we serve him diligently with the standard process then we will move closer to him and he will reciprocate