Text 29]
Prayers by Queen Kuntī
407
controller also. Without His sanction not a blade of grass can move. The living beings are given as much freedom as they deserve, and misuse of that freedom is the cause of suffering. The devotees of the Lord do not misuse their freedom, and therefore they are the good sons of the Lord. Others, who misuse freedom, are put into miseries destined by the eternal  kāla . The  kāla  offers the conditioned souls both happiness and miseries. It is all predestined by eternal time. As we have miseries uncalled-for, so we may have happiness also without being asked, for they are all predestined by  kāla . No one is therefore either an enemy or friend of the Lord. Everyone is suffering and enjoying the result of his own destiny. This destiny is made by the living beings in course of social intercourse. Everyone wants here to lord it over the material nature, and thus everyone creates his own destiny under the supervision of the Supreme Lord. He is all-pervading, and therefore He can see everyone's activities. And because the Lord has no beginning or end, He is known also as the eternal time,  kāla .
TEXT 29
न वेद कश्चिद्गर्वाश्चिकीर्षितं तत्रेहमानस्य नृणां विडम्बनम् । न यस्य कश्चिद्यितोऽस्ति कर्हिचिद् द्वेष्यश्च यस्मिन् विषमा मतिर्नृणाम् ॥२९॥
na veda kaścid bhagavamś cikīrṣitam taveha-mānasya nṛṇām viḍambanam na yasya kaścid dayito'sti karhicid dveṣyaś ca yasmin viṣamā matir nṛṇām
na—does not; veda—know; kaścit—anyone; bhagavan—● Lord; cikīrṣitam—pastimes; tava—Your; iha-mānasya—like the worldly men; nṛṇām—of the people in general; viḍambanam—misleading; na—never; yasya—His; kaścit—anyone; dayitaḥ—object of specific favor; asti—there is; karhicit—anywhere; dveṣyaḥ—object of envy; ca—and; yasmin—unto Him; viṣamā—partiality; matiḥ—conception; nṛṇām—of the people.
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.