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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
elect 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, who had also glorified King Yadu by taking birth in his family. He
is known as Yadava, Yaduvira, Yadunandana, etc., although the Lord is
always independent of such obligations. He is just like the sandalwood
that grows in the Malaya Hills. Trees can grow anywhere and every-
where, 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 is
the father of everything that be.

In the Bhagavad-gita (4.6) the Lord says:

ajo ‘pi sann avyayatma
bhutanam isvaro ‘pi san
prakrtim svam adhisthaya
sambhavamy atma-mayaya
‘*Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates,
and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every
millennium in My original, transcendental form.”’

Krsna is unborn, and we are also unborn, but the difference is that un-
like the Lord we have been entangled in a material body. Therefore we
cannot keep our position as unborn, but have to take birth and transmi-
grate from one body to another, with no guarantee of what kind of body
we shall receive next. Even in this life, we are obliged to accept one body
after another. A child gives up his childhood body and accepts the body
of a boy, and the boy gives up his boyhood body to accept a youthful
body, which he then gives up for an old body. Therefore it is natural to
conclude that when one gives up one’s old body, one will have to accept
another body; again one will accept the body of a child.
