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TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTĪ
Unfortunately, however, we do not know this. We are conducting scientific research, but we do not know that every living entity is a spiritual soul, with no birth and no death. This is our ignorance. The soul is eternal, everlasting, and primeval ( nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ purāṇo ). The soul does not die with the annihilation of the body ( na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ). But although the soul does not die, it accepts another body, and this is called  bhava-roga , the material disease.
Since Kṛṣṇa is the supreme living entity ( nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām ), we are exactly like Kṛṣṇa, the difference being that Kṛṣṇa is  vibhu , unlimited, whereas we are  aṇu , limited. Qualitatively, we are as good as Kṛṣṇa. Therefore whatever propensities Kṛṣṇa has, we have also. For example, Kṛṣṇa has the propensity to love someone of the opposite sex, and therefore we have this same propensity. The beginning of love is present in the eternal love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. We are also seeking eternal love, but because we are conditioned by the material laws, our love is interrupted. But if we can transcend this interruption, we can take part in loving affairs similar to those of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī. Our aim should therefore be to go back home, back to Kṛṣṇa, because since Kṛṣṇa is eternal, we shall there receive an eternal body.
Kuntī says,  kecid āhur ajaṁ jātam : the supreme eternal, the supreme unborn, has now taken His birth. But although Kṛṣṇa takes birth, His birth is not like ours. That we should know. The Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.9):
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”
It is described in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  that when Kṛṣṇa first appeared, He did not take birth from the womb of Devakī; rather, He first appeared in the majestic four-armed form of Viṣṇu, and then He became a small child on Devakī’s lap. Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s birth is transcendental, whereas our birth takes place by force, by the laws of nature. Kṛṣṇa is not under the laws of nature; the laws of nature work under Him ( mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram ).  Prakṛti , nature, works under the order of Kṛṣṇa, and we work under the order of nature. Kṛṣṇa is the master of