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“O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of heat and cold, happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being

Kuntī’s spontaneous glorification of Lord Kṛṣṇa and her description of the spiritual path are immortalized in the Mahābhārata and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam), and they have been recited, chanted , and sung by sages and philosophers for thousands of years.

First there is birth, then growth, and then that which has been born and has grown stays for some time , produces some by-products, and then dwindles and finally vanishes. The body, for example, takes birth at a certain date, and then it grows and stays for some time. From the body come so many by-products in the form of sons and daughters, and then the body becomes old and weak, and finally when it is very old it dies.

O Hṛṣīkeśa, master of the senses and Lord of lords, You have released Your mother, Devakī, who was long imprisoned and distressed by the envious King Kaṁsa, and me and my children from a series of constant

A small insect’s measurement of past, present, and future is different from our past, present, and future , and similarly the past, present, and future of Brahmā, the chief creative living being within this At a certain date I was born of my father and mother, and now this body will stay for some time. It will grow, it will produce some by-products, then it will become old and dwindle and then vanish, When the past, present, and future of my present body are finished, I shall accept another body, and

Everything is under control, and everything – water, light, heat, and so on – is complete.

Kṛṣṇa has no past, present, and future. He is eternal time, with no beginning and no end, and He is equal to everyone. We simply have to prepare ourselves to see Kṛṣṇa and understand Kṛṣṇa.

And what do I have? I have this body and mind, I have a little home and my wife and children, but whatever I have, I surrender

We are aṇu, the smallest, and Kṛṣṇa is vibhu, the greatest. We are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore Kṛṣṇa is both the smallest and the greatest, whereas we Because Kṛṣṇa is vibhu, the greatest, He includes everything, even past, present, and future time, and

After spring comes summer, and after summer comes fall and then winter, and then spring again. Similarly, after day comes night, and after night comes day. And just as these cyclic changes take place one after another, we change from one body to another, and

Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, who is aja, beyond birth and death, we are also aja. If my father is happy and I am the son of my father, why should I be unhappy? Similarly, God, Kṛṣṇa, is all-powerful, all-beautiful, all-knowledgeable, and complete in everything, and although I may not be complete, I am part and parcel of God, and therefore I have all the qualities

I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again , for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths.

All these cities and villages are flourishing in all respects because the herbs and grains are in abundance , the trees are full of fruits, the rivers are flowing, the hills are full of minerals, and the oceans And this is all due to Your glancing over them.

Kuntī’s words – the simple and illuminating outpourings of the soul of a great and saintly woman devotee – reveal both the deepest transcendental emotions of the heart and the most profound philosophical and

The prefix a means “not,” and punar bhava means “repetition of birth and death.” The real danger is the repetition of birth and death. That must be stopped.

And yet others say that You appeared to rejuvenate the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping , and so on, in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and

engagements: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām – giving protection to the sādhus, the devotees, and Kṛṣṇa gave protection to the Pāṇḍavas and Vṛṣṇis because they were devotees, and He also killed demons like Kaṁsa, Aghāsura, and Bakāsura. If one is a demon, we can use logic and arguments to kill his demoniac propensities and turn him into They should be killed by argument, reasoning, and scientific spiritual understanding.

And because He is eternal, He is the full controller (īśānam). By Kṛṣṇa’s extraordinary behavior, Kuntī could understand that Kṛṣṇa is eternal and that Kṛṣṇa is the He has no beginning and no end (anādi-nidhanam), and therefore He is vibhu, the Supreme, the greatest