38 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 1
TRANSLATION
Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Your Majesty, best of all saintly
kings, because you are greatly attracted to topics of Vasudeva, it is
certain that your intelligence is firmly fixed in spiritual under-
standing, which is the only true goal for humanity. Because that
attraction is unceasing, it is certainly sublime.
PURPORT
Krsna-kathaé is compulsory for the rdjarsi, or executive head of
government. This is also mentioned in Bhagavad-gita (imam rajarsayo
viduh). 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 becom-
ing degraded. Krsna-katha 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 Krsna con-
sciousness should be understood to have very sharp intelligence in
regard to the value of life. Maharaja Pariksit was rdjarsi-sattama, the
best of all saintly kings, and Sukadeva Gosvami was muni-sattama, the
best of munis. Both of them were elevated because of their common in-
terest in krsna-kathd. The exalted position of the speaker and the
audience will be explained very nicely in the next verse. Krsna-kathd is
so enlivening that Maharaja Pariksit forgot everything material, even his
personal comfort in relation to food and drink. This is an example of how
the Krsna 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.
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THR TSR AGATA TA EI

vadsudeva-kathd-prasnah

purusams trin pundati hi .
vaktaram pracchakam Srotfrs
tat-pdda-salilam yatha
