720 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI

Lord Krsna destines all actions and reactions, He is the supreme con-
troller also. Without His sanction not a blade of grass can move. The liv-
ing beings are given as much freedom as they deserve, and misuse of that
freedom is the cause of suffering. The devotees of the Lord do not mis-
use their freedom, and therefore they are the good sons of the Lord.
Others, who misuse freedom, are put into miseries destined by the eter-
nal kala. The kala offers the conditioned souls both happiness and mis-
eries. It is all predestined by eternal time. As we have miseries uncalled
for, so we may have happiness also without being asked, for they are all
predestined by kala. No one is therefore either an enemy or friend of the
Lord. Everyone is suffering and enjoying the result of his own destiny.
This destiny is made by the living beings in course of social intercourse.
Everyone here wants to lord it over the material nature, and thus every-
one creates his own destiny under the supervision of the Supreme Lord.
He is all-pervading and therefore He can see everyone’s activities. And
because the Lord has no beginning or end, He is known also as the eter-
nal time, kala.

What is explained herein by the devoted Kunti is exactly confirmed by
the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gitad (9.29). There the Lord says:

samo ‘ham sarva-bhitesu
na me dvesyo ’sti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu mam bhaktya
mayi te tesu capy aham

“*T envy no one, nor am partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But one who
renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a
friend to him.’’ God cannot be partial. Everyone is God’s son, so how
can God favor one son above another? That is not possible. But human
beings discriminate. We write, ‘‘In God we trust,’ but one who trusts in
God must be equally kind and merciful toward all living entities. That is
God consciousness.

Krsna says, ‘‘I have no enemies, nor have I friends.”’ Na me dvesyo ’sti
na priyah. The word dvesya means ‘‘enemy.”’ We are envious of our
enemies and friendly toward our friends, but because Krsna is absolute,
even when He appears to be inimical toward some demon He is actually a
friend. When Krsna kills a demon, the demon’s demoniac activities are
killed, and he immediately becomes a saint and merges into the supreme
impersonal effulgence, the brahmajyoti.

The brahmajyoti is one of three features of the Absolute Truth.
