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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 5]
हरेः पदानुस्रतिनिर्वृतस्य समस्तदुःखाध्ययमाशु धत्ते ॥१३॥
sā śraddadhānasya vivardhamānā viraktim anyatra karoti puṁsaḥ hareḥ padānusmṛti-nirvṛtasya samasta-duḥkhāpyayam āśu dhatte
sā —those topics of  Kṛṣṇa , or  Kṛṣṇa-kathā ;  śraddadhānasya —of one who is anxious to hear;  vivardhamānā —gradually increasing;  viraktim —indifference;  anyatra —in other things (than such topics);  karoti —does;  puṁsaḥ —of one who is so engaged;  hareḥ —of the Lord;  pada-anusmṛti —constant remembrance of the lotus feet of the Lord;  nirvṛtasya —one who has achieved such transcendental bliss;  samasta-duḥkha —all miseries;  apyayam —vanquished;  āśu —without delay;  dhatte —executes.
TRANSLATION
For one who is anxious to engage constantly in hearing such topics,  Kṛṣṇa-kathā  gradually increases his indifference towards all other things. Such constant remembrance of the lotus feet of Lord  Kṛṣṇa  by the devotee who has achieved transcendental bliss vanquishes all his miseries without delay.
PURPORT
We must certainly know that on the absolute plane  Kṛṣṇa-kathā  and  Kṛṣṇa  are one and the same. The Lord is the Absolute Truth, and therefore His name, form, quality, etc., which are all understood to be  Kṛṣṇa-kathā , are nondifferent from Him.  Bhagavad-gītā , being spoken by the Lord, is as good as the Lord Himself. When a sincere devotee reads  Bhagavad-gītā , this is as good as his seeing the Lord eye to eye in his personal presence, but this is not so for the mundane wrangler. All the potencies of the Lord are there when one reads  Bhagavad-gītā , provided it is read in the way recommended in the  Gītā  by the Lord Himself. One cannot foolishly manufacture an interpretation of  Bhagavad-gītā  and still bring about transcendental benefit. Anyone who tries to squeeze some artificial meaning or interpretation from  Bhagavad-gītā  for an ulterior motive is not  śraddadhāna-puṁsa  (one engaged anxiously in bona fide hearing of  Kṛṣṇa-kathā ). Such a person cannot derive any benefit from reading  Bhagavad-gītā , however great a scholar he may be in the estimation of a layman. The  śraddadhāna , or faithful devotee, can actually derive all