Only a self-realized soul living the Bhagavatam can authentically deliver Krishna consciousness to others.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.3 — May 27, 1974, Rome 740527SB-ROME [41:55 Minutes] SB-01.02.03_740527SB-ROME Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] yaḥ svānubhāvam akhila-śruti-sāram ekam adhyātma-dīpam atititīrṣatāṁ tamo 'ndham saṁsāriṇāṁ karuṇayāha purāṇa-guhyaṁ taṁ vyāsa-sūnum upayāmi guruṁ munīnām [SB 1.2.3] Prabhupāda: [commenting, as Nitāi is chanting whole verse without devotees chanting responsively] No.
They will not be able to follow. Nitāi: I'm just going..., doing it myself.
Prabhupāda: Oh. All right. Nitāi: I'm just chanting three times.
Prabhupāda: All right. Nitāi: yaḥ svānubhāvam akhila-śruti-sāram ekam adhyātma... Prabhupāda: Let them give chance to...
Prabhupāda: Yaḥ svānubhāvam, like that. Nitāi: yaḥ svānubhāvam akhila-śruti-sāram ekam adhyātma-dīpam atititīrṣatāṁ tamo 'ndham saṁsāriṇāṁ karuṇayāha purāṇa-guhyaṁ taṁ vyāsa-sūnum upayāmi guruṁ munīnām [SB 1.2.3] [break] [04:53] "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto him, Śuka, the spiritual master of all sages, the son of Vyāsadeva, who, out of his causeless compassion for those gross materialists who struggle to cross over the darkest region of material existence, spoke this Purāṇa, supplement to the Vedas, the cream of Vedic knowledge, after having personally assimilated it by experience." Prabhupāda: yaḥ svānubhāvam akhila-śruti-sāram ekam adhyātma-dīpam atititīrṣatāṁ tamo 'ndham saṁsāriṇāṁ karuṇayāha purāṇa-guhyaṁ taṁ vyāsa-sūnum upayāmi guruṁ munīnām [SB 1.2.3] So Sūta Gosvāmī is offering respect to the spiritual master, Śukadeva Gosvāmī. When we offer respect to the spiritual master, or anyone, we glorify his transcendental quality. That is glorification.
Just like we offer respect to Kṛṣṇa, glorify Him. So this is very important process, to glorify the spiritual master by his activities, what he is actually doing. That is glorification. So what Śukadeva Gosvāmī did? Svānubhāvam.
He first of all heard from his father, Vyāsadeva, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and realized it. Not a professional Bhāgavata reciter. Just like in India now there are a class of men, especially in Vṛndāvana, the gosvāmīs, they make a business. Therefore there are many, many very artistic Bhāgavata reciter, but they could not turn even one man to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, because they are not self-realized, svānubhāvam.