Text 38] Prayers by Queen Kunti 421

on the will of the Lord and thereby overcome all difficulties of material
existence.

TEXT 38

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waasead ate ettaaahra: 1RcII

ke vayam nama-ripabhyam
yadubhih saha pandavah

bhavato’darsanam yarhi
hrsikanam ivesituh

ke—who are; vayam— we; nama-rupabhyam—without fame and ability;
yadubhih—with the Yadus; saha—along with; pandavah—and the Pandavas;
bhavatah—Y our; adarsanam— absence; yarhi—as if; hrsikGnam—of the senses:
iwa—like; isituh—of the living being.

TRANSLATION

As the name and fame of a particular body is finished with the dis-
appearance of the living spirit, similarly if You do not look upon us, all
our fame and activities, along with the Pandavas and Yadus, will end at
once.

PURPORT

Kuntidevi is quite aware that the existence of the Pandavas is due to
Sri Krsna only. The Pandavas are undoubtedly well established in name
and fame and are guided by the great King Yudhisthira, who is morality
personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the
guidance of Lord Krsna all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses
of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness. No one
should be proud of his prestige, power and fame without being guided by
the favor of the Supreme Lord. The living beings are always dependent,
and the ultimate dependable object is the Lord Himself. We may, therefore,
invent by our advancement of material knowledge all sorts of counter-
acting material resources, but without being guided by the Lord all such
inventions end in fiasco, however strong and stout the reactionary elements
may be.
