So Kuntī says that, "You have come to teach rascals like this and engage them in this business: śravaṇa, smaraṇa, arhaṇam." Śravaṇa. Because this is bhakti. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ (SB 7.5.23). But they are so rascals, as soon as they, the Vaiṣṇavas, begin, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, the rascal svāmī will say: "No, any name śravaṇa will do. Any name. Why Viṣṇu? Oh, Kālī." You know. In Bengal there is a party, kālī-kīrtana. What is this nonsense, kālī-kīrtana? In the śāstra there is no such thing as kālī-kīrtana. Kīrtana means śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, viṣṇu-kīrtana. But these rascals have discovered, because they are very fertile brain and they can discover so many things. Yata mata tata patha: "I have discovered this." What is this? Kālī-kīrtana, durgā-kīrtana. So . . . but śāstra does not say. Caitanya Mahāprabhu does not say. Śāstra says, harer nāma: the holy name of Hari, Kṛṣṇa, not any other name. Not any other name.
So śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ (SB 7.5.23). When there is question of śravaṇam, arhaṇam and . . . these things are of Viṣṇu. Where is that verse? Yat śravaṇaṁ yat kīrtanam . . .? So this . . . yes. So this śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam has been described by Śukadeva Gosvāmī in Canto Second, Chapter Four, very nicely. He says:
- yat-kīrtanaṁ yat-smaraṇaṁ yad-īkṣaṇaṁ
- yad-vandanaṁ yac-chravaṇaṁ yad-arhaṇam
- lokasya sadyo vidhunoti kalmaṣaṁ
- tasmai subhadra-śravase namo namaḥ
- (SB 2.4.15)
Very nicely explained. Śukadeva Gosvāmī, before speaking Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, he's offering his obeisances to Kṛṣṇa. What is that? "I offer my obeisances," tasmai, "unto Him." Subhadra-śravase: "Simply hearing of Him is subhadra." Not abhadra; subhadra. Subhadra-śravase namo namaḥ. So Śukadeva Gosvāmī—yat-kīrtanaṁ yat-smaraṇam. Either you glorify Kṛṣṇa . . . there are so many glorification. The whole Bhāgavata is glorification.