By the power of devotional service, our material anxieties gradually decrease. Why? Because gradually we learn to find our true shelter in hearing and chanting about Krishna. If we chant and hear attentively with devotion, we will easily tolerate the upheavals of the material world. For example, Kholaveca Sridhara sold banana leaf cups and plates for a living. Every day he set up his wares, then took fifty percent of his earnings to maintain himself and used the other fifty percent to worship the Ganges. At that time as now, selling banana leaf cups and plates was not a lucrative business. There are many banana trees in Bengal and Sridhara had a lot of competition. Still, he set up shop each day and sold what he could. He was not disturbed by his meager profit; he was peaceful. Actually, he was not drawing his satisfaction from selling banana leaf cups and plates but from chanting Hare Krishna. He sold his wares simply as a matter of duty, and he remained detached from the fruits of his work. Thus he had no material anxiety, even though he was poverty-stricken.
(LFD, Vol2, Faith—The Price for the Holy Name, Pg 91, 3rd paragraph)