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gopis. The Lord’s devotees like Maharaja Yudhisthira are also described
by the qualification uttamasloka-gundnuvadda. The word anuvdda refers
to describing the qualities of the Supreme Lord or His devotees. When
these qualities are described, other devotees are interested in hearing
them. The more one is interested in hearing about these transcendental
qualities, the more one transcendentally enjoys. Everyone, therefore, in-
cluding the mumuksus, the vimuktas and the karmis, should chant and
hear the glories of the Lord, and in this way everyone will benefit.

Although the sound vibration of the transcendental qualities of the
Lord is equally beneficial to all, for those who are muktas, liberated, it is
especially pleasing. As described in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Eighth Canto,
Third Chapter, verse twenty, because pure devotees, who no longer have
any material desires, surrender fully to the lotus feet of the Lord, they
always merge in the ocean of bliss by chanting and hearing the Lord’s
holy name. According to this verse, devotees like Narada and other resi-
dents of Svetadvipa are seen always engaged in chanting the holy name
of the Lord because by such chanting they are always externally and in-
ternally blissful. The mumuksus, persons desiring to be liberated, do not
depend on the pleasures of the senses; instead, they concentrate fully on
becoming liberated by chanting the holy name of the Lord. Karmis like
to create something pleasing to their ears and hearts, and although they
sometimes like to chant or hear the glories of the Lord, they do not do it
openly. Devotees, however, always spontaneously hear, chant about and
remember the activities of the Lord, and by this process they are fully
satisfied, even though these may seem like topics of sense gratification.
Simply by hearing the transcendental narrations of the Lord’s activities,
Pariksit Maharaja was liberated. He was therefore Srotramano- ’bhirama;
that is, he glorified the process of hearing. This process should be
accepted by all living entities.

To distinguish persons who are bereft of these transcendental
pleasures, Pariksit Maharaja has used the words virajyeta pumdn. The
word puman refers to any person, whether man, woman or in-between.
Because of the bodily conception of life, we are subject to lamentation,
but one who has no such bodily conceptions can take pleasure in tran-
scendental hearing and chanting. Therefore a person fully absorbed in
the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual
progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from
