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Dhruva Maharaja dasa:<\/p>\n
Brahmananda: So, what are you working on now?
\nSadhusanga: Srimad Bhagavatam First Canto Chapter Eight, Prayers by Queen Kunti.
\nBrahmananda: Oh! Srila Prabhupada liked those prayers very much! One time in 1966 when he wasn\u2019t feeling well, Prabhupada called me into his room and asked me to read the Prayers of Queen Kunti. Then, during 1977 in Bombay when he was indisposed and not feeling well, he again called me to his room and asked me to read Prayers of Queen Kunti.<\/p>\n
Consider the traumatic life of Queen Kunti:<\/p>\n
As a young girl she was given away by her parents.<\/p>\n
She gave birth to a male child before she was married. Then, to avert social scorn she placed her baby in a basket, and sent it down a river.<\/p>\n
Years later, her husband Pandu was cursed, so she couldn\u2019t have children with him, but due to a mystical boon she gave birth to three more sons from three different males, only to learn her husband became lusty over her co-wife and died!<\/p>\n
Subsequently, her eldest son reappeared and became bitter enemies with his unknown brothers, thus siding with the evil King Duryodana who tormented her family for years. The king engaged in hundreds of political intrigues against them, attempted to poison her son Bhima, set fire to their residential quarters, and finally exiled her family from the kingdom for thirteen years after cheating at dice and attempting to disrobe her daughter-in-law in public.<\/p>\n
As if that weren\u2019t enough, upon her son\u2019s return from exile they engaged in the bloodiest war during the last 5000 years wherein 640 million people were slaughtered in eighteen days.<\/p>\n
After all this. her Lord, Sri Krsna, was preparing to depart and head home for Dwaraka. He came her, His aunt, to offer respects before leaving, and this is when Queen Kunti opened her heart and offered her prayers, which were filled with a sea of emotions.<\/p>\n
In the purport to SB 1.13.3-4 Kunti is described as the incarnation of the success potency of the Personality of Godhead. Is it any wonder materialists can\u2019t understand the science of Krsna consciousness?<\/p>\n
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