Heard from various lectures by HG Narayani Mataji, HH Romapada Swami and HDG Srila Prabhupada.
Kunti Devi begins her prayers by offering her
obeisances to Him and expressing her devotion through heartfelt prayers. She begins by glorifying the various potencies of the Lord. She is not
offering her prayers to Lord Krishna because He is her nephew. Neither is
she is distressed of His leaving just because of Her family ties with
Him- she is distressed at His departure because He is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.
The crisis of the war and also of the danger to the child in Uttara's womb is over - Krishna prepares to start for Dwarka. However as He is leaving , one of His great devotees Kunti Devi expresses her distress.She had observed how Krishna had simultaneously protected the Pandavas from outside and Maharaja Pariksit from the inside(of Uttara's womb).Astonished , she was convinced that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 1.8.18 kunty uvāca
namasye puruṣam tvādyam īśvaram prakṛteh param
alakṣyam sarva-bhūtānām antar bahir avasthitam
alakṣyam sarva-bhūtānām antar bahir avasthitam
- Namasye purusam tvadyam isvaram prakrteh param
- So Krsna, although He happened to be nephew of Kunti... Kunti was Krsna's father's sister. But because (s)he was devotee, she knew that "Krsna also, although He is playing the part of my nephew, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
- You are the original personality unaffected by the qualities of material nature . tu adyam- you were the controller before the creation and will also remain the controller after this creation- You are the beyond the material world
- You are the Supreme Controller.. Within the prakrti, within the material nature, everything has got beginning and end, limited. You are not that kind of controller." Prakrteh param, eternal.
- alaksyam sarva bhutanam antar bahir avasthitam -
- She puts forward a question.You are present everywhere , within and without everything - yet you are invisible to all?- No one can actually know you. I saw You protect the Pandavas with Your Chakra, and I know as the Supersoul you entered Uttara's womb to protect her embryo. You now sit directly before me on a chariot? Are you localized? All pervading or both?
Although the Lord is everywhere within and without everything - he still remains unrecognized. Krsna is standing in a human like form as Kunti's nephew engaging in human like activities despite the fact that He is Supremely Powerful.
Srila Prabhupada states in his lecture as to How we Can see God?
"So God reveals Himself to the
devotee. Although... Just like Prahlada Maharaja was seeing that Nrsimhadeva has
come, and his father, atheist father, he was challenging, "Where is your God?"
So God is everywhere, but He is not visible to the nondevotee. But one who is
devotee, he can see Him. Every... Not only once.
Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva [Bs. 5.38]. Sadaiva means
always. He is seeing always Krsna. That is the position of saintly person.
Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu [Bs. 5.38].
Hrdayesu, in the heart, vilokayanti, they see.
So if you can see God, you can talk with God, if you can go back to home, back to God, why should you lose this opportunity? This opportunity is in the human being. You can see God, you can talk with God, you can go back home, back to God. Everything is possible. And that is Krsna consciousness movement."
Therefore we must follow the process of Krishna Consciousness very sincerely so that we can also see the Lord one day.
