If we actually want to understand Srimad Bhagavatam, we actually have to hear from proper sources and there must also be the proper discipline. Both things must be there, not just simply the reading. So even though someone may read first canto all the way though the tenth canto, they may not make a single bit of advancement unless the proper discipline is also there. That discipline also must be learned by accepting a spiritual master.
February 4, 1997, Bryansk