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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.15
samyag vyavasitā buddhis
yaj jātā naishthikī ratih
SYNONYMS
śrī-śukah uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; samyak — completely; vyavasitā — fixed; buddhih — intelligence; tava — of Your Majesty; rāja-rishi-sattama — O best of rājarshis, saintly kings; vāsudeva-kathāyām — in hearing about the topics of Vāsudeva, Krishna; te — your; yat — because; jātā — developed; naishthikī — without cessation; ratih — attraction or ecstatic devotional service.
TRANSLATION
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Your Majesty, best of all saintly kings, because you are greatly attracted to topics of Vāsudeva, it is certain that your intelligence is firmly fixed in spiritual understanding, which is the only true goal for humanity. Because that attraction is unceasing, it is certainly sublime.
PURPORT
Krishna-kathā is compulsory for the rājarshi, or executive head of government. This is also mentioned in Bhagavad-gītā (imam rājarshayo viduh). Unfortunately, however, in this age the governmental power is gradually being captured by third-class and fourth-class men who have no spiritual understanding, and society is therefore very quickly becoming degraded. Krishna-kathā must be understood by the executive heads of government, for otherwise how will people be happy and gain relief from the pangs of materialistic life? One who has fixed his mind in Krishna consciousness should be understood to have very sharp intelligence in regard to the value of life. Mahārāja Parīkshit was rājarshi-sattama, the best of all saintly kings, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī was muni-sattama, the best of munis. Both of them were elevated because of their common interest in krishna-kathā. The exalted position of the speaker and the audience will be explained very nicely in the next verse. Krishna-kathā is so enlivening that Mahārāja Parīkshit forgot everything material, even his personal comfort in relation to food and drink. This is an example of how the Krishna consciousness movement should spread all over the world to bring both the speaker and the audience to the transcendental platform and back home, back to Godhead.
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