Text 21] Prayers by Queen Kunti 395
Absolute Personality of Godhead is beyond the range of the thinking
power of the greatest philosopher. He is unknowable by great learning or
by the greatest brain. He is only knowable by one who has His mercy.
Others may go on thinking about Him for years together, yet He is un-
knowable. This very fact is corroborated by the Queen, and she is playing
the part of an innocent woman. Women in general are unable to speculate
like philosophers. but they are blessed by the Lord because they believe at
once in the superiority and almightiness of the Lord, and thus they offer
obeisances without reservation. The Lord is so kind that He does not only
show special favor to one who is a great philosopher. He knows the sin-
cerity of purpose. For this reason only. women generally assemble in great
number in any sort of religious function. In every country and in every
sect of religion it appears that the women are more interested than the
men. This simplicity of acceptance of the authority of the Lord ts more
effective than showy insincere religious fervor.
TEXT 21
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AAMNTHANTT ATTA AAT AA? URI
krsnaya vasudevaya
devaki-nandanaya ca
nanda-gopa-kumaraya
govindaya namo namah
krsnaya—the Supreme Lord; vasudevaya— unto the son of Vasudeva;
devaki-nandanaya—unto the son of Devaki; ca—and; nanda-gopa—Nanda
and the cowherd men: kumaraya—unto their son; govinddya—unto the
Personality of Godhead who enlivens the cows and the senses; namah—
respectful obeisances; namah—obeisances.
TRANSLATION
Let me, therefore, offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord who
has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devaki, the boy of Nanda
and the other cowherd men of Vrndavana, and the enlivener of the cows
and the senses.
PURPORT
The Lord, being thus unapproachable by any material assets, out of
unbounded and causeless mercy descends on the earth as He is in order
