176 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 5

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sa Sraddadhanasya vivardhamana
viraklim anyatra karoli pumsah

hareh padanusmrti-nirvrlasya
samasta-duhkhapyayam asu dhatle

sa—those topics of Krsna, or Krsna-kathda; sraddadhanasya—of one who
is anxious to hear; vivardhamana—gradually increasing; virak tim—indiffer-
ence; anyatra—in other things (than such topics); karoti—does; purmsah—of
one who is so engaged; hareh—of the Lord; pada-anusmrli— constant
remembrance of the lotus feet of the Lord; nirurtasya—one who has
achieved such transcendental bliss; samasta-duhkha—all miseries;apyayam—
vanquished; a§u— without delay ; dhatte--execules.

TRANSLATION

For one who is anxious to engage constantly in hearing such topics,
Krsna-hatha gradually increases his indifference towards all other things.
Such constant remembrance of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna by the
devotee who has achieved transcendental bliss vanquishes all his miseries
without delay.

PURP@RT

We must certainly know that on the absolute plane Krsna-katha and
Krsna are one and the same. The Lord is the Absolute Truth, and there-
fore Ilis name, form, quality, ete., which are all understood to be Krsna-
katha, are nondifferent from Him. Bhagavad-gila, being spoken by the
Lord, is as good as the Lord Himself. When a sincere devotee reads
Bhagavad-gita, 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-gita, provided
it is read in the way recommended in the Gita by the Lord Himself. One
cannot foolishly manufacture an interpretation of Bhagavad-gila and still
bring about transcendental benefit. Anyone who tries to squeeze some
artificial meaning or interpretation from Bhagavad-gita for an ulterior
molive is not sraddadhana-pumsa (one engaged anxiously in bona fide
hearing of Krsna-katha). Such a person cannot derive any benefit from
reading Bhagavad-gita, however great a scholar he may be in the estimation
of a layman. The sraddadhana, or faithful devotee, can actually derive all
