Teachings of   QUEEN   KUNTI
THE TRAGIC and heroic figure of Queen Kunti emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. As the wife of King Pāṇḍu and the mother of five illustrious sons (the Pāṇḍavas), she was a central figure in a complex political drama that fifty centuries ago culminated in the devastating Kurukṣetra War.
At the conclusion of the war, Queen Kunti approaches Lord Kṛṣṇa as He prepares to depart from the scene of battle. Although Kunti is Lord Kṛṣṇa's aunt (He incarnated as her brother Vasudeva's son), she perfectly understands His exalted and divine identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She knows full well that He descended from His abode in the spiritual world to rid the earth of demoniac military forces and reestablish peace and righteousness. Thus the prayers she offers Him on this occasion are not the conventional pious solicitations. Rather, they are philosophical reflections, devotional illuminations, even mystical exultations. As such they have been recorded and immortalized in the  Śrimad-Bhāgavatam , India's greatest philosophical and spiritual classic.
Queen Kunti's prayers—the simple and illuminating outpourings of the soul of a great and saintly woman devotee—reveal both the deepest transcendental emotions of the heart and the most profound philosophical and theological penetrations of the intellect. Her words have been recited, chanted, and sung by sages and philosophers in India for thousands of years.
Teachings of Queen Kunti  consists of Kunti's celebrated prayers as recorded in the  Śrimad-Bhāgavatam  together with illuminating commentary by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda—Founder- Ācārya  of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the most renowned Vedic scholar and religious leader of our time and author of more than seventy volumes of translation and commentary on India's ancient Vedic literature.
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