निवृत्तिधर्माभिरताय तेन ।
सनत्कुमाराय स चाह पृष्टः
साङ्ख्यायनायाङ्ग धृतव्रताय ॥७॥
proktaá¹ kilaitad bhagavattamena
nivá¹›tti-dharmÄbhiratÄya tena
sanat-kumÄrÄya sa cÄha pṛṣá¹aḥ
sÄá¹…khyÄyanÄyÄá¹…ga dhá¹›ta-vratÄya
proktam - was said; kila - certainly; etat - this; bhagavattamena - by Lord Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa; nivá¹›tti - renunciation; dharma-abhiratÄya - unto one who has taken this religious vow; tena - by Him; sanat-kumÄrÄya - unto Sanat-kumÄra; saḥ - he; ca - also; Äha - said; pṛṣá¹aḥ - when inquired of; sÄá¹…khyÄyanÄya - unto the great sage SÄá¹…khyÄyana; aá¹…ga - my dear Vidura; dhá¹›ta-vratÄya - unto one who has taken such a vow.
Lord Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa thus spoke the purport of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam to the great sage Sanat-kumÄra, who had already taken the vow of renunciation. Sanat-kumÄra also, in his turn, when inquired of by SÄá¹…khyÄyana Muni, explained ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam as he had heard it from Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa.
This is the way of the paramparÄ system. Although Sanat-kumÄra, the well-known great saintly KumÄra, was in the perfect stage of life, still he heard the message of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam from Lord Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa. Similarly, when he was questioned by SÄá¹…khyÄyana Ṛṣi, he spoke to him the same message he had heard from Lord Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa. In other words, unless one hears from the proper authority one cannot become a preacher. In devotional service, therefore, two items out of the nine, namely hearing and chanting, are most important. Without hearing nicely, one cannot preach the message of Vedic knowledge.
