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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 1]
TRANSLATION
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī  said: O Your Majesty, best of all saintly kings, because you are greatly attracted to topics of Vāsudeva, it is certain that your intelligence is firmly fixed in spiritual understanding, which is the only true goal for humanity. Because that attraction is unceasing, it is certainly sublime.
PURPORT
Kṛṣṇa-kathā  is compulsory for the  rājarṣi , or executive head of government. This is also mentioned in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ). Unfortunately, however, in this age the governmental power is gradually being captured by third-class and fourth-class men who have no spiritual understanding, and society is therefore very quickly becoming degraded.  Kṛṣṇa-kathā  must be understood by the executive heads of government, for otherwise how will people be happy and gain relief from the pangs of materialistic life? One who has fixed his mind in  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness should be understood to have very sharp intelligence in regard to the value of life. Mahārāja Parikṣit was  rājarṣi-sattama , the best of all saintly kings, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī was  muni-sattama , the best of  munis . Both of them were elevated because of their common interest in  kṛṣṇa-kathā . The exalted position of the speaker and the audience will be explained very nicely in the next verse.  Kṛṣṇa-kathā  is so enlivening that Mahārāja Parikṣit forgot everything material, even his personal comfort in relation to food and drink. This is an example of how the  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness movement should spread all over the world to bring both the speaker and the audience to the transcendental platform and back home, back to Godhead.
TEXT 16
वासुदेवकथाप्रश्नः पुरुषांस्त्रीन् पुनाति हि ।  
 वक्तारं प्रच्छकं श्रोतृंस्तत्पादसलिलं यथा ॥१६॥
vāsudeva-kathā-praśnaḥ  
 puruṣāṁs trīn punāti hi  
 vaktāraṁ pracchakaṁ śrotīṁs  
 tat-pāda-salilaṁ yathā