SB 10.31.9

"Who can describe the sweetness of the words coming from your mouth? It is indescribable. Even words about your name and form coming from the mouths of other people are also more relishable than the amrta of svarga or liberation." This is the import of this verse. "Your speech is nectar." "What kind of nectar?" "It gives life to people who burned by samsara and the greatest diseases (tapta jivanam). Your name and form are glorified by devotees like Dhruva and Prahlada (kavibhir iditam), in such verses as sb. 4.9.10 ya nirvtti tanubhrtam (The bliss attained through hearing topics about you cannot be attained even through the bliss of Brahman), where the two other types of happiness or amrta are stated to be unattractive. : sa brahami sva mahimanyapi natha,,,,, My Lord, the transcendental bliss derived from meditating upon Your lotus feet or hearing about Your glories from pure devotees is so unlimited that it is far beyond the stage of brahmananda, wherein one thinks himself merged in the impersonal Brahman as one with the Supreme. Since brahmananda is also defeated by the transcendental bliss derived from devotional service, then what to speak of the temporary blissfulness of elevating oneself to the heavenly planets, which is ended by the separating sword of time? Although one may be elevated to the heavenly planets, he falls down in due course of time. "The nectar of your topis destroys the effects of all sin (kalmasa apaharanam) , up to prarabdha karmas (aprarabdha, kuta, bija prarabhda). The nectar of svarga does not destroy sin, but rather it increases desire, which is a cause for sin. The nectar of liberation does not destroy the prarabdha papa though it destroys the apraradha, kuta and bija papa. The nectar of your topics are most auspicious to hear (sravana mangalam) because just by hearing the ultimate goal becomes attractive and achieved. This is not so with the nectar of svarga and moksa. The nectar of your topics being preached by the speaker, bestows all wealth up to prema ( srimad atatam). The other two nectars do not do this. Those who accept this nectar, or glorify you in kirtana, are bestowing the greatest treasure. Though one may give that person everything, that cannot repay the debt due to him." Another meaning of the verse is as follows. "If you show yourself, then your words become sweet. Otherwise your words have no meaning. Your words (discussion of your name and form and pastimes ) become a cause of death (katha mrtam)." "How?" "By those descriptions, life becomes full of pain in separation (tapta jivanam)." Another meaning of jivana is water. "By those descriptions we become like water sprinkled in hot oil (tapta)." "If that is so, then why are these descriptions praised in the scriptures?" "Poets alone praise you and no one else (kavibhir iditam). They describe you by habit and nothing else. By hearing about you, one develop pain in separation. By experiencing this pain, one burns up previous sins (kalmasa apaham). Though by hearing about you , the vedic rites become indestructible, when intelligent persons see that hearing about you brings suffering, they will no longer hear. Blind men, mad after wealth (sri mat), hoping that everyone will die through hearing, spend money and establish speakers of the Puranas in various places to spread topics about you (atatam). Therefore that person on earth who sings your glories destroys (da) many people (bhuri). Thus, by spreading the poison of these topis through recitation, while sitting peacefully, they are actually greater killers than murderers. Thus intelligent persons avoid these reciters" This is explained in the verse yad anucarita lila (sb 10.47.18) There are many in this world whose lives have been ruined simply by once tasting the drops of nectar, sifted through their ears, of the pastimes enacted by Krsna. Relishing them even one time, these wretched souls are immediately deprived of all conception of duality. Thus at once they give up their equally wretched family life and, just like birds, take to the profession of wandering beggars. Actually however, on the pretext of criticizing, there is praise of the speaker and the topics of Krsna .