Only pure devotees with opened hearts can taste the eternal sweetness of Krishna consciousness; all others merely lick the sealed bottle.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.35 — December 4, 1974, Bombay 741204SB-BOMBAY [42:17 Minutes] SB-03.25.35_741204SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] paśyanti te me rucirāṇy amba santaḥ prasanna-vaktrāruṇa-locanāni rūpāṇi divyāni vara-pradāni sākaṁ vācaṁ spṛhaṇīyāṁ vadanti [SB 3.25.35] [break] [00:59] "O My mother, My devotees always see the smiling face of My form, with eyes like the rising morning sun.
They like to see My various transcendental forms, which are all benevolent, and they also talk favorably with Me." Prabhupāda: paśyanti te me rucirāṇy amba santaḥ prasanna-vaktrāruṇa-locanāni rūpāṇi divyāni vara-pradāni sākaṁ vācaṁ spṛhaṇīyāṁ vadanti [SB 3.25.35] In the previous verse it is said, anyonyato bhāgavatāḥ prasajya sabhājayante mama pauruṣāṇi [SB 3.25.34]. Those who are devotees, they assemble together. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, "They discuss about the glories of the Lord." Bodhayantaḥ parasparam.
That is sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83]. We have also discussed this. Satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ [SB 3.25.25].
When things are discussed about the Supreme Personality of Godhead amongst the devotees, it becomes a different thing than the discussion in the debating club of the nondevotees. The kṛṣṇa-kathā is not a subject matter for debating club. It is meant for the devotees. Without devotees, nobody can understand.
The others, who are not devotee, they simply waste their time in reading Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, such literature. They simply waste their time, because these subject matters are for the devotees. We have several times discussed this point that the so-called scholars, politicians and philosophers, they read Bhagavad-gītā and comment in a different way. This is their foolishness. They cannot understand Bhagavad-gītā.
It is not possible. My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "It is just like licking the bottle of honey." Now you want honey. I give you one bottle, but you do not know how to taste it. You began to lick up the bottle.
So what you will taste? If you think, "Here is the bottle of honey. Let me lick," you will not get any taste. It must be opened.