Teachings Of Queen Kunti

TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI

The tragic and heroic figure of Queen Kuntī emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. As related in the Mahabharata, India’s grand epic poem of 110,000 couplets, Kuntī was the wife of the King Pandu and the mother of five illustrious sons known as pandavas.Kuntī was Lord Kṛṣṇa’s aunt(He had incarnated as the son of her brother Vasudeva), yet despite this conventional tie with the Lord, she fully understood His exalted and divine identity. 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.Her words are words of glorification impelled by a divine love steeped in wisdom.

Kunti’s spontaneous glorification of Lord Kṛṣṇa and her description of the spiritual path are immortalized in the Mahābhārata and the Bhāgavata Purāņa (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam)and they have been recited, chanted and sung by the sages and philosophers for thousands of years.As they appear in the First Canto of Bhagavatam ,Queen Kuntī ’s celebrated prayers consist of only twenty-six couplets (verses 18 through 43 of the Eighth Chapter), yet they are considered a philosophical, theological, and literary masterpiece. The present book (Teachings of Queen Kuntī)includes those inspired verses and illuminating commentary by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada).Teachings of Queen Kuntī contains further explanations that Srila Prabhupada gave more recently in an absorbing series of lectures he analyzed the verses in significantly greater detail and shed even more light upon them. This publication, complete with eleven color prints of exquisite original paintings, will be a prized addition to the libraries of all those who seek a deeper understanding of life’s mysteries. It will provide every reader with firm guidance along the universal path to genuine wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.