Prayers by Queen Kunti- verses

SB 1.8.18

kunty uvaca

namasye purusam tvadyam isvaram prakrteh param
alaksyam sarva-bhutanam antar bahir avasthitam

Translation: 

Srimati Kunti said: O Krsna, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities of the material world. You are existing both within and without everything, yet You are invisible to all.

SB 1.8.19

maya-javanikacchannam ajñadhoksajam avyayam
na laksyase mudha-drsa nato natyadharo yatha

Translation: 

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.

SB 1.8.20

tatha paramahamsanam muninam amalatmanam
bhakti-yoga-vidhanartham katham pasyema hi striyah

Translation: 

You Yourself descend to propagate the transcendental science of devotional service unto the hearts of the advanced transcendentalists and mental speculators, who are purified by being able to discriminate between matter and spirit. How then can we women know You perfectly?

SB 1.8.21

krsnaya vasudevaya devaki-nandanaya ca
nanda-gopa-kumaraya govindaya namo namah

Translation: 

Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devaki, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vrndavana, and the enlivener of the cows and the senses.

SB 1.8.22

namah pankaja-nabhaya namah pankaja-maline
namah pankaja-netraya namas te pankajanghraye

Translation: 

My respectful obeisances are unto You, O Lord, whose abdomen is marked with a depression like a lotus flower, who are always decorated with garlands of lotus flowers, whose glance is as cool as the lotus and whose feet are engraved with lotuses.

SB 1.8.23

yatha hrsikesa khalena devaki
 kamsena ruddhaticiram sucarpita
vimocitaham ca sahatmaja vibho
 tvayaiva nathena muhur vipad-ganat

Translation: 

O Hrsikesa, master of the senses and Lord of lords, You have released Your mother, Devaki, who was long imprisoned and distressed by the envious King Kamsa, and me and my children from a series of constant dangers.

SB 1.8.24

visan mahagneh purusada-darsanad
 asat-sabhaya vana-vasa-krcchratah
mrdhe mrdhe ’neka-maharathastrato
 drauny-astratas casma hare ’bhiraksitah

Translation: 

My dear Krsna, Your Lordship has protected us from a poisoned cake, from a great fire, from cannibals, from the vicious assembly, from sufferings during our exile in the forest and from the battle where great generals fought. And now You have saved us from the weapon of Asvatthama.

SB 1.8.25

vipadah santu tah sasvat tatra tatra jagad-guro
bhavato darsanam yat syad apunar bhava-darsanam

Translation: 

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.

SB 1.8.26

janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhir edhamana-madah puman
naivarhaty abhidhatum vai tvam akiñcana-gocaram

Translation: 

My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling.

SB 1.8.27

namo ’kiñcana-vittaya nivrtta-guna-vrttaye
atmaramaya santaya kaivalya-pataye namah

Translation: 

My obeisances are unto You, who are the property of the materially impoverished. You have nothing to do with the actions and reactions of the material modes of nature. You are self-satisfied, and therefore You are the most gentle and are master of the monists.

SB 1.8.28

manye tvam kalam isanam anadi-nidhanam vibhum
samam carantam sarvatra bhutanam yan mithah kalih

Translation: 

My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse.

SB 1.8.29

na veda kascid bhagavams cikirsitam
 tavehamanasya nrnam vidambanam
na yasya kascid dayito ’sti karhicid
 dvesyas ca yasmin visama matir nrnam

Translation: 

O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and so are misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy. People only imagine that You are partial.

SB 1.8.30

janma karma ca visvatmann ajasyakartur atmanah
tiryan-nrsisu yadahsu tad atyanta-vidambanam

Translation: 

Of course it is bewildering, O soul of the universe, that You work, though You are inactive, and that You take birth, though You are the vital force and the unborn. You Yourself descend amongst animals, men, sages and aquatics. Verily, this is bewildering.

SB 1.8.31

gopy adade tvayi krtagasi dama tavad
 ya te dasasru-kalilañjana-sambhramaksam
vaktram niniya bhaya-bhavanaya sthitasya
 sa mam vimohayati bhir api yad bibheti

Translation: 

My dear Krsna, Yasoda took up a rope to bind You when You committed an offense, and Your perturbed eyes overflooded with tears, which washed the mascara from Your eyes. And You were afraid, though fear personified is afraid of You. This sight is bewildering to me.

SB 1.8.32

kecid ahur ajam jatam punya-slokasya kirtaye
yadoh priyasyanvavaye malayasyeva candanam

Translation: 

Some say that the Unborn is born for the glorification of pious kings, and others say that He is born to please King Yadu, one of Your dearest devotees. You appear in his family as sandalwood appears in the Malaya hills.

SB 1.8.33

apare vasudevasya devakyam yacito ’bhyagat
ajas tvam asya ksemaya vadhaya ca sura-dvisam

Translation: 

Others say that since both Vasudeva and Devaki prayed for You, You have taken Your birth as their son. Undoubtedly You are unborn, yet You take Your birth for their welfare and to kill those who are envious of the demigods.

SB 1.8.34

bharavataranayanye bhuvo nava ivodadhau
sidantya bhuri-bharena jato hy atma-bhuvarthitah

Translation: 

Others say that the world, being overburdened like a boat at sea, is much aggrieved, and that Brahma, who is Your son, prayed for You, and so You have appeared to diminish the trouble.

SB 1.8.35

bhave ’smin klisyamananam avidya-kama-karmabhih
sravana-smaranarhani karisyann iti kecana

Translation: 

And yet others say that You appeared for the sake of rejuvenating the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and gain liberation.

SB 1.8.36

srnvanti gayanti grnanty abhiksnasah
 smaranti nandanti tavehitam janah
ta eva pasyanty acirena tavakam
 bhava-pravahoparamam padambujam

Translation: 

O Krsna, those who continuously hear, chant and repeat Your transcendental activities, or take pleasure in others’ doing so, certainly see Your lotus feet, which alone can stop the repetition of birth and death.

SB 1.8.37

apy adya nas tvam sva-krtehita prabho
 jihasasi svit suhrdo ’nujivinah
yesam na canyad bhavatah padambujat
 parayanam rajasu yojitamhasam

Translation: 

O my Lord, You have executed all duties Yourself. Are you leaving us today, though we are completely dependent on Your mercy and have no one else to protect us, now when all kings are at enmity with us?

SB 1.8.38

ke vayam nama-rupabhyam  yadubhih saha pandavah
bhavato ’darsanam yarhi  hrsikanam ivesituh

Translation: 

As the name and fame of a particular body is finished with the disappearance of the living spirit, similarly if You do not look upon us, all our fame and activities, along with the Pandavas and Yadus, will end at once.

SB 1.8.39

neyam sobhisyate tatra yathedanim gadadhara
tvat-padair ankita bhati sva-laksana-vilaksitaih

Translation: 

O Gadadhara [Krsna], our kingdom is now being marked by the impressions of Your feet, and therefore it appears beautiful. But when You leave, it will no longer be so.

SB 1.8.40

ime jana-padah svrddhah supakvausadhi-virudhah
vanadri-nady-udanvanto hy edhante tava viksitaih

Translation: 

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 full of wealth. And this is all due to Your glancing over them.

SB 1.8.41

atha visvesa visvatman visva-murte svakesu me
sneha-pasam imam chindhi drdham pandusu vrsnisu

Translation: 

O Lord of the universe, soul of the universe, O personality of the form of the universe, please, therefore, sever my tie of affection for my kinsmen, the Pandavas and the Vrsnis.

SB 1.8.42

tvayi me ’nanya-visaya matir madhu-pate ’sakrt
ratim udvahatad addha gangevaugham udanvati

Translation: 

O Lord of Madhu, as the Ganges forever flows to the sea without hindrance, let my attraction be constantly drawn unto You without being diverted to anyone else.

SB 1.8.43

sri-krsna krsna-sakha vrsny-rsabhavani-dhrug-
 rajanya-vamsa-dahananapavarga-virya
govinda go-dvija-surarti-haravatara
 yogesvarakhila-guro bhagavan namas te

Translation: 

O Krsna, O friend of Arjuna, O chief amongst the descendants of Vrsni, You are the destroyer of those political parties which are disturbing elements on this earth. Your prowess never deteriorates. You are the proprietor of the transcendental abode, and You descend to relieve the distresses of the cows, the brahmanas and the devotees. You possess all mystic powers, and You are the preceptor of the entire universe. You are the almighty God, and I offer You my respectful obeisances.

SB 1.8.44

suta uvaca

prthayettham kala-padaih parinutakhilodayah
mandam jahasa vaikuntho mohayann iva mayaya

Translation: 

Suta Gosvami said: The Lord, thus hearing the prayers of Kuntidevi, composed in choice words for His glorification, mildly smiled. That smile was as enchanting as His mystic power.