• durlabham — difficult to achieve
  From dur- (hard) + labh (to obtain). Gauḍīya śāstra reserves this word for prema and for the company of pure devotees — things that cannot be purchased even by accumulated puṇya. Akrūra grades his upcoming darśana inside that highest category.
• uttamaḥ - śloka — the Supreme Lord, who is praised in the best verses
  Compound: uttamaḥ (highest) + śloka (verse, praise). Bhāgavata's signature epithet for Kṛṣṇa — the one of whom only the highest poetry is true. Akrūra names his goal in the very form the Bhāgavatam itself uses to point at Him.
• viṣaya - ātmanaḥ — for one whose self is absorbed in sense gratification
  Compound: viṣaya (sense object) + ātman (self) — a man whose self has become the senses' object. Gauḍīyas note that Akrūra is not theatrically humble; he simply diagnoses the materialist self by its real symptom — fixation on objects.
• brahma — the Vedas
  Here brahma means the Veda — śabda-brahman. Gauḍīyas distinguish this from the impersonal Brahman: brahma in this verse is the sacred sound that, like darśana of Kṛṣṇa, is not given by birth-merit but by mercy.
• kīrtanam — chanting, reciting
  From √kīrt — to make known, to declare. In Gauḍīya theology kīrtana is the yuga-dharma of Kali; here it is invoked at its Vedic edge — the recitation of the mantras. Akrūra contrasts the ineligible reciter with himself: the unfit man at the gate of the Person.

• Are you honest about your own materialistic absorption, or do you dress it up?
• Could humility about your standing make Kṛṣṇa's mercy more vivid?

Akrūra holds himself in his own hand and weighs himself like a man weighing impure copper: a sense-bound life is not the metal that buys this audience. The Vedas in a śūdra's mouth — his image — is not snobbery, it is a man honestly listing his disqualifications.