Text 16] Maharaja Pariksit Cursed by a Brahmana Boy 945
fore please describe to us the pastimes of the Lord, which are above all
material conception, for we are anxious to receive such messages.
PURPORT
The speaker on the transcendental activities of the Lord should have
only one object of worship and service, Lord Krsna, the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead. And the audience for such topics should be anxious to
hear about Him. When such a combination is possible, namely a qualified
speaker and a qualified audience, it is then and there very much congenial
to continue discourses on the transcendence. Professional speakers and a
materially absorbed audience cannot derive real benefit from such dis-
courses. Professional speakers make a show of Bhagavata-saptaha for the
sake of family maintenance, and the materially disposed audience hears
such discourses of Bhagavata-saptaha for some material benefit, namely
religiosity, wealth, gratification of the senses, or liberation. Such Bhagava-
tam discourses are not purified from the contamination of the material
qualities. But the discourses between the saints of Naimisiranya and Sri
Stita Gosvami are on the transcendental level. There is no motive for
material gain. In such discourses, unlimited transcendental pleasure is
relished both by the audience and the speaker, and therefore they can
continue the topics for many thousands of years. Now Bhagavata-saptahas
are held for seven days only, and after finishing the show, both the
audience and the speaker become engaged in material activities as usual.
They can do so because the speaker is not Bhagavata-pradhana, and the
audience is not susrusatam, as explained above.
TEXT 16
a 3 wera: wife
aa = Saraftahtcas
wae NII
sa vai maha-bhagavatah pariksid
yenapavargakh yam adabhra-buddhih
jitanena vaiyasaki-sabditena
bheje khagendra-dhvaja-pada-mulam
sah—he; vai—certainly; maha-bhagavatah — first-class devotee; pariksit—

the King; yena—by which; apavarga-akhyam—by the name of liberation;
