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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 4]
TEXT 5
राजोवाच्च
समीचीनं वचो ब्रह्मन् सर्वज्ञस्य तवानघ । तमो विशीर्यते मह्यं हरेः कथयतः कथाम् ॥ ५ ॥
rājovāca samīcīnam vaco brahman sarva-jñasya tavānagha tamo viśīryate mahyam hareḥ kathayataḥ kathām
rājā uvāca —the King said;  samīcīnam —perfectly right;  vacaḥ —speeches;  brahman —O learned  brāhmaṇa ;  sarva-jñasya —one who knows all;  tava —your;  anagha —without any contamination;  tamaḥ —darkness of ignorance;  viśīryate —gradually disappearing;  mahyam —unto me;  hareḥ —of the Lord;  kathayataḥ —as you are speaking;  kathām —topics.
TRANSLATION
Mahārāja Parīkṣit said: O learned  brāhmaṇa , you know everything because you are without material contamination. Therefore whatever you have spoken to me appears to be perfectly right. Your speeches are gradually destroying the darkness of my ignorance, for you are narrating the topics of the Lord.
PURPORT
The practical experience of Mahārāja Parīkṣit is disclosed herein, revealing that transcendental topics of the Lord act like injections when they are received by the sincere devotee from a person who is perfectly uncontaminated by material tinges. In other words, reception of the messages of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  from professional men, heard by a  karma-kāṇḍīya  audience, never acts miraculously as it is stated here. Devotional hearing of the messages of the Lord is not like hearing ordinary topics; therefore the action will be felt by the sincere hearer by experience of the gradual disappearance of ignorance.
yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau. tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23)