समीचीनं वचो ब्रह्मन्सर्वज्ञस्य तवानघ ।
तमो विशीर्यते मह्यं हरेः कथयतः कथाम् ॥५॥
rÄjovÄca
samīcīnaṠvaco brahman
sarva-jñasya tavÄnagha
tamo viśīryate mahyaá¹
hareḥ kathayataḥ kathÄm
rÄjÄ uvÄca - the King said; samÄ«cÄ«nam - perfectly right; vacaḥ - speeches; brahman - O learned brÄhmaṇa; sarva-jñasya - one who knows all; tava - your; anagha - without any contamination; tamaḥ - the darkness of ignorance; viśīryate - gradually disappearing; mahyam - unto me; hareḥ - of the Lord; kathayataḥ - as you are speaking; kathÄm - topics.
MahÄrÄja ParÄ«ká¹£it said: O learned brÄhmaṇa, you know everything because you are without material contamination. Therefore whatever you have spoken to me appears perfectly right. Your speeches are gradually destroying the darkness of my ignorance, for you are narrating the topics of the Lord.
The practical experience of MahÄrÄja ParÄ«ká¹£it is disclosed herein, revealing that transcendental topics of the Lord act like injections when received by the sincere devotee from a person who is perfectly uncontaminated by material tinges. In other words, reception of the messages of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam from professional men, heard by a karma-kÄṇá¸Ä«ya audience, never acts miraculously as 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 parÄ bhaktir
yathÄ deve tathÄ gurau
tasyaite kathitÄ hy arthÄḥ
prakÄÅ›ante mahÄtmanaḥ
(ÅšvetÄÅ›vatara Upaniá¹£ad 6.23)
When a hungry man is given food to eat, he feels satiation of hunger and the pleasure of dining simultaneously. Thus he does not have to ask whether he has actually been fed or not. The crucial test of hearing ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam is that one should get positive enlightenment by such an act.
