Bhagvatam : LORD KRSNA ESPECIALLY SELECTED ARJUNA FOR INSTRUCTION IN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE ARJUNA HAPPENED TO BE A GREAT DEVOTEE AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND. SIMILARLY, GREAT PERSONALITIES ALSO SPEAK TO THE ADVANCED, NOT TO SHÜDRAS, VAISYAS OR UNINTELLIGENT MEN.
TRANSLATION
My dear sir, it appears that the influence of your great spiritual knowledge is hidden. Factually you are bereft of all material association and fully absorbed in the thought of the Supreme. Consequently you are unlimitedly advanced in spiritual knowledge. Please tell me why you are wandering around like a dullard. O great, saintly person, you have spoken words approved by the yogic process, but it is not possible for us to understand what you have said. Therefore kindly explain it.
PURPORT
Saintly people like Jada Bharata do not speak ordinary words.
Whatever they say is approved by great yogis and those advanced in spiritual life.
That is the difference between ordinary people and saintly people.
THE LISTENER MUST ALSO BE ADVANCED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS OF SUCH EXALTED, SPIRITUALLY ADVANCED PEOPLE AS JADA BHARATA.
BHAGAVAD-GITÄ WAS SPOKEN TO ARJUNA, NOT TO OTHERS.
LORD KRSNA ESPECIALLY SELECTED ARJUNA FOR INSTRUCTION IN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE ARJUNA HAPPENED TO BE A GREAT DEVOTEE AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND.
SIMILARLY, GREAT PERSONALITIES ALSO SPEAK TO THE ADVANCED, NOT TO SHÜDRAS, VAISYAS, OR UNINTELLIGENT MEN.
Sometimes it is very risky to give great philosophical instructions to ordinary people, but Sri Chaitanya Mahäprabhu, for the benefit of the fallen souls of Kali-yuga, has given us a very nice instrument, the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra.
The general mass of people, although shüdras and less, can be purified by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra.
Then they can understand the exalted philosophical statements of Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.
Our Krsna consciousness movement has therefore adopted the chanting of the Hare Krsna mahä-mantra for the general masses.
When people gradually become purified, they are instructed in the lessons of Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.
Materialistic people like stri, shüdra and dvija-bandhu cannot understand words of spiritual advancement, yet one can take to the shelter of a Vaisnava, for he knows the art of enlightening even shüdras in the highly elevated subject matter spoken in Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.
