176 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 4

TEXT 5

THAT
Ata Ta Faq ATA TAA |
wat feted we et: evra: wa M4 II

rajovaca
samicinam vaco brahman
sarva-jiiasya tavanagha
tamo visiryate mahyarn
hareh kathayatah katham

raja wvace—the King said; samicinam—perfectly right; vacah—speeches;
brahman—O learned brahmanea; sarva-jiiasya—one who knows all; tava—
your; anagha—without any contamination; tamah—darkness of ignorance;
visiryate—gradually disappearing; mahyam—unto me; hareh—of the Lord;
kathayatah—as you are speaking; katham—topics.

TRANSLATION

Maharaja Pariksit said: O learned brahmana, 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 Maharaja Pariksit is disclosed herein, re-
vealing that transcendental topics of the Lord act like injections when they
are received by the sincere devotee from a person who is perfectly uncon-
taminated by material tinges. In other words, reception of the messages of
Srimad-Bhagavatam from professional men, heard by a karma-kandiya
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 para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau.
tasyaite kathita hy arthah prakasante mahatmanah
(Svetdsvatara Upanisad 6.23)
