4 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI
killed the Pitana 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 con-
tinuously just to give protection to the residents of Vrndavana. These are
some of the superhuman activities of the Lord described in the authorita-
tive Vedic literatures like the Purdnas, Itihdsas (histories), and Upani-
sads. He has delivered wonderful instructions in the shape of the
Bhagavad-gita. He has shown marvelous capacities as a hero, as a house-
holder, 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 Maha-
prabhu, Jiva Gosvami, ViSvanatha Cakravarti, Bhaktisiddhanta Sara-
svati, and all other authorities of the line. He Himself has declared as
much in many places of the authentic literatures. 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 imper-
fect senses cannot realize Him as the Supreme Lord. Such persons are _
like the modern scientist. They want to know everything by their experi-
mental 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 im-
perfect. We claim to observe everything and anything, but we must admit
that we can observe things under certain material conditions only, which
are also beyond our control. The Lord is beyond the observation of sense
perception. Queen Kunti accepts this deficiency of the conditioned soul,
especially of the woman class, who are less intelligent. For the less intelli-
gent there must be such things as temples, mosques, or churches so that
they may begin to recognize the authority of the Lord and hear about
Him from authorities in such holy places. For the less intelligent, this
beginning of spiritual life is essential, and only foolish men decry the
establishment of such places of worship, which are required to raise the
standard of spiritual attributes for the mass of people. For less intelligent
persons, bowing down before the authority of the Lord, as generally done
in the temples, mosques, or churches, is as beneficial as it is for the ad-
vanced devotees to meditate upon Him by active service.
