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TEXT 71 sraddhavan anasuyas ca
SYNONYMS  sraddha-van--faithful;
anasuyah ca--and not envious; srnuyat--does hear; api--certainly;
yah--who; narah--a man; sah--he; api--also;
muktah--being liberated; subhan--auspicious; lokan--planets;
prapnuyat--attains; punya-karmanam--of the pious.
TRANSLATION And one who
listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reactions
and attains to the planets where the pious dwell.
PURPORT In the 67th
verse of this chapter, the Lord explicitly forbade the Gita's being
spoken to those who are envious of the Lord. In other words, Bhagavad-gita
is for the devotees only, but it so happens that sometimes a devotee of
the Lord will hold open class, and in that class all the students are not
expected to be devotees. Why do such persons hold open class? It is explained
here that although everyone is not a devotee, still there are many men
who are not envious of Krsna. They have faith in Him as the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. If such persons hear from a bona fide devotee about the Lord,
the result is that they become at once free from all sinful reactions and
after that attain to the planetary system where all righteous persons are
situated. Therefore simply by hearing Bhagavad-gita, even a person
who does not try to be a pure devotee attains the result of righteous activities.
Thus a pure devotee of the Lord gives everyone a chance to become free
from all sinful reactions and to become a devotee of the Lord.
Generally
those who are free from sinful reactions are righteous. Such persons very
easily take to Krsna consciousness. The word punya-karmanam is very
significant here. This refers to the performance of great sacrifice. Those
who are righteous in performing devotional service but who are not pure
can attain the planetary system of the polestar, or Dhruvaloka, where Dhruva
Maharaja is presiding. He is a great devotee of the Lord, and he has a
special planet which is called the polestar.
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