kvaham daridrah papiyan

 kva krsnah sri-niketanah

brahma-bandhur iti smaham

 bahubhyam parirambhitah

 

Translation: 

 

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

 

Purport: 

 

This translation is from Srila Prabhupada’s English rendering of Caitanya-caritamrta (Madhya 7.143).

 

Sudama 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, daridrya-doso guna-rasi-nasi: “The discrepancy of being poor ruins heaps of good qualities.”