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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
TRANSLATION
O my lord, my spiritual master, although we are the lowest of  kṣatriyas , we are glorified and benefited because we have the opportunity of always hearing from you the nectar of the pious activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
The pious activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are very confidential. It is not ordinarily possible to hear such activities unless one is very, very fortunate. Parīkṣit Mahārāja placed himself as  kṣatrabandhavaḥ , which means “the lowest of the  kṣatriyas .” The qualities of the  kṣatriya  are described in  Bhagavad-gītā , and although the general quality of the  kṣatriya  is  īśvara-bhāva , the tendency to rule, a  kṣatriya  is not supposed to rule over a  brāhmaṇa . Thus Mahārāja Parīkṣit regretted that he had wanted to rule over the  brāhmaṇas  and had therefore been cursed. He considered himself the lowest of the  kṣatriyas .  Dānam īśvara-bhāvaś ca kṣātraṁ karma svabhāvajam  (Bg. 18.43). There was no doubt that Mahārāja Parīkṣit had the good qualities of a  kṣatriya , but as a devotee he presented himself, with submissiveness and humility, as the lowest of the  kṣatriyas , remembering his act of wrapping a dead serpent around the neck of a  brāhmaṇa . A student and disciple has the right to ask the  guru  about any confidential service, and it is the duty of the  guru  to explain these confidential matters to his disciple.
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श्रीसूत उवाच
इत्थं स पृष्ठः स तु बादरायणि-
स्तत्सारितानन्तहृताखिलेन्द्रियः ।
ऋच्छ्रात् पुनर्लब्धबहिर्दृशिः शनैः
प्रत्याह तं भागवतोत्तमोत्तम ॥४४॥
śrī-sūta uvāca
itthaṁ sma prṣṭaḥ sa tu bādarāyaṇis
tat-smāritānanta-hṛtākhilendriyaḥ
kṛcchrāt punar labdha-bahir-dṛśiḥ śanaiḥ
pratyāha taṁ bhāgavatottamottama