Text 19] Prayers by Queen Kunti 393

PURPORT

In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord affirms that less intelligent persons mis-
take Lord Sri Krsna to be an ordinary man like us, and thus they deride
Him. The same is confirmed herein by Queen Kunti. The less intelligent
persons are those who rebel against the authority of the Lord. Such per-
sons are known asasuras. The asuras cannot recognize the Lord’s authority.
When the Lord appears Himself amongst us, as Rama, Nrsimiha, Varaha or
in His original form as Krsna, He performs many wonderful acts which
are humanly impossible. As we shall find in the Tenth Canto of this great
literature, Lord Sri Krsna exhibited His humanly impossible activities even
from the days of His lying in the lap of His mother. He killed the Piitana
witch, although she smeared her breast with poison just to kill the Lord.
The Lord sucked her breast like a natural baby, and He sucked out her
very life also. Similarly, He lifted the Govardhana Hill, just as a boy
picks up a frog’s umbrella, and stood several days continually just to give
protection to the residents of Vrndavana. These are some of the super-
human activities of the Lord described in the authoritative Vedic literatures
like the Purdnas, Itthdsas (histories), Upanisads, etc. He has delivered
wonderful instructions in the shape of the Bhagavad-gita. He has shown
marvelous capacities as a hero, as a householder, as a teacher and as a
renouncer. He is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by such
authoritative personalities as Vyasa, Devala, Asita, Narada, Madhva,
Sankara, Ramanuja, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Jiva Gosvami, Visvanatha
Cakravarti, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvat? and all other authorities of the line.
Ile has Himself declared as much in many places of the authentic litera-
tures. And yet there is a class of men with demoniac mentality who are
always reluctant to accept the Lord as the Supreme Absolute Truth. This
is partially due to their poor fund of knowledge and partially due to their
stubborn obstinacy which results from various misdeeds in the past and
present. Such persons could not recognize Lord Sri Krsna even when He
was present before them. Another difficulty is that those who depend
more on their imperfect senses cannot realize Him as the Supreme Lord.
Such persons are like the modern scientist. They want to know everything
by their experimental knowledge. But it is not possible to know the
Supreme Person by imperfect experimental knowledge. He is described
herein as adhoksaja, or beyond the range of experimental knowledge. All
our senses are imperfect. We claim to observe everything and anything, but
we must admit that we can observe things under certain material condi-
