Text 33] Prayers by Queen Kunti 413
although He is the Lord of all creations and He is unborn. So there cannot
be any denial of the birth of the Unborn because He Himself establishes
the truth. But still there are different opinions as to why He takes His
birth. That is also declared in the Bhagavad-gita. He appears by His own
internal potency to reestablish the principles of religion and to protect the
pious and to annihilate the impious. That is the mission of the appearance
of the Unborn. Still, it is said that the Lord is there to glorify the pious
King Yudhisthira. Lord Sri Krsna certainly wanted to establish the kingdom
of the Pandavas for the good of all in the world. When there is a pious
king ruling over the world, the people are happy. When the ruler is
impious, the people are unhappy. In the age of Kali in most cases the rulers
are impious, and therefore the citizens are also continuously unhappy. But
in the case of democracy, the impious citizens themselves send _ their
representative to rule over them, and therefore they cannot blame anyone
for their unhappiness. Maharaja Nala was also celebrated as a great pious
king, but he had no connection with Lord Krsna. Therefore Maharaja
Yudhisthira is meant here to be glorified by Lord Krsna. He had also
glorified King Yadu, having taken His birth in the family. He is known as
Yadava, Yaduvira, Yadunandana, etc., although the Lord is always inde-
pendent of such obligation. It is just like the sandalwood that grows in the
Malaya hills. Trees can grow anywhere and everywhere, yet because the
sandalwood trees grow mostly in the area of the Malaya hills, the name
sandalwood and the Malaya hills are interrelated. Therefore, the conclusion
is that the Lord is ever unborn like the sun, and yet He appears as the sun
rises on the eastern horizon. As the sun is never the sun of the eastern
horizon, so the Lord is no one’s son, but He is the father of everything
that be.
TEXT 33
AN Wer saeat AAAS HTT |
TART TAT TTT AUST 131
apare vasudevasya
devak yam yacito’bhyagat
ajas tvam asya ksemaya
vadhdya ca sura-dvisam

apare—others; vasudevasya—of Vasudeva; devak yam—of Devaki; yacitah

—being prayed for; abhyagat—took birth; ajah—unborn; tvam—You are;
