mama - my; etat - this; durlabham - difficult to achieve; manye - I consider; uttamaḥ-śloka - of the Supreme Lord, who is praised in the best poetry; darśanam - the audience; viṣaya-ātmanaḥ - for one who is absorbed in sense gratification; yathā - just as; brahma - of the Vedas; kīrtanam - chanting; śūdra - as a low-class man; janmanaḥ - by one who has taken his birth.

Since I am a materialistic person absorbed simply in sense gratification, I think it is as difficult for me to have gotten this opportunity to see Lord Uttamaḥśloka as it would be for one born a śūdra to be allowed to recite the Vedic mantras.