Prayers by Queen Kunti. 1.8.19- Importance of srvanam and kirtanam

Queen Kunti puts forward a question in 1.8.18 that how is this possible- Krsna is a person both localized and all pervading- how can one who is both present everywhere and all powerful remain unrecognized? After all Krsna , who is Kunti Devi's nephew, is standing before Kunti in humanlike form engaging in humanlike activities despite the fact that He is unlimitedly powerful and the all pervading Lord.- From Unveiling His Lotus Feet - Pg 139"

Kunti Devi then answers her own question in the next verse 1.8.19:

māyā-javanikācchannam ajñādhokṣajam avyayam

na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā

Being beyond the range of limited sense perception, You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy. You are invisible to the foolish observer, exactly as an actor dressed as a player is not recognized.

• maya javanikachhannam - deluding curtain of Maya- Krsna remains beyond the limit of common people's perception because the curtain of His deluding energy covers their eyes.
• ajnadhoksajam avyayam -
• ajna - ignorant
• adhoksajam- heard in HG Narayanai Mataji's class that akshaja means senses adha means to go down- those who try to percieve the Lord through their senses only go down are defeated. - Thus the Lord cannot be conceived by one's senses.
• "Adhaḥ. Adhaḥ means down, made down, or defeated. Your sense perception will be defeated if you want to realize by God by your imperfect sense perception. That is not possible. You will be defeated. Adhaḥ akṣaja. Akṣaja means akṣa. Akṣa means eyes. " - from Lecture on SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971
• From this link :"Knowledge means, our knowledge means we manufacture words or syllables from A to Z. That's all. ABCD. We compose words with these twenty-six, or how many? A to Z?.........That is... And in Sanskrit, as in English it is A to Z, similarly in Sanskrit, a, a, i, u, and the end is ksa. So a and ksa, that is called aksa. Aksa-ja. And ja means generated. So we also compose words, those who are Sanskrit scholars, they compose words from a to aksa, just like English they compose words from A to Z. So our mental speculation and advancement of education is limited between this a and ksa, aksa. Aksa-ja. But Krsna is adhoksaja. Adhoksaja means where these kinds of speculation, beginning from a to ksa, will not act. Therefore His name is Adhoksaja. Adhah krta, cut down. (aside:) Why they are going? They are busy in some other work? Eh? Ugra-karma. Without hearing, what he will do, nonsense? Sravanam kirtanam, this is our main business. Sravanam. If you don't hear, what you will do? You will do simply sense gratification. That's all."
• na laksyase mudha drse- 
• mudhas because Krishna is present inside us and is present outside us- yet we refuse to acknowledge Him
• we are mudhas because Krishna has also taught us How to perceive Him- through the taste of water, through the strength of the strong, etc described in the 7th chapter of the BG but we refuse to acknowledge as we want to see with our own eyes. But the eyes are imperfect and Krishna is adhoksaja
• We are mudhas because Krishna is providing us with all the necessities, He is our benefactor always present with us - yet we refuse to acknowledge His presence.
• nato natyadharo yatha - He thus remains covered just as one cannot recognize an actor when He is in costume

How can we then see Krishna - when there is the deluding curtain of Maya on one side, we ourselves are mudhas and Krishna is beyond the range of sense perception?
As Srila Prabhupada says in His lecture :

"Now, who is, who can understand Krsna? There are so many impediments. One side, there is curtain of maya; another side, everyone is a rascal and fool; and another side, Krsna is beyond your sense perception. This is the position. How much one must be alert. Then one can understand. Just like the Gosvamis. Is Krsna is so easy thing to be understood? But there is process. So if we do not adopt the process, then how we can understand Krsna? These are the so many difficult things. One side, one thing is the maya is checking. Maya is trying to put stumbling block for your advancement of spiritual life. Maya-javanikacchannam. And the other side, we are all fools and rascals. And the, again, Krsna is adhoksaja, beyond the range of sense perception. This is the position.

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The mahajanas are there. So we have to follow. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. We should not remain mudha-drsa. We should follow the mahajanas and the sadhus, sastra. And they recommend... The most important process is sravanam. Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah [SB 1.2.17]. If we don't hear about Krsna, then how we'll make advance? We have to hear. My Guru Maharaja was very kind upon me because I was very much interested to hear him. That you know. I hear him. I did not understand him, actually. In the beginning I could not understand him. He was speaking in so high philosophical way that it was not... Still, I wanted to hear him. That was my only qualification.

So the... It is the process. During lecture time, if we don't care to hear or we do other things or take rest, that is not very good sign. We should be very much careful. Then we shall remain mudha-drsa. Nato natyadharo yatha. We have taken the vow to see Krsna or to understand Krsna. We should be very, very serious and do the needful. Then our life will be successful.