108 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI

Unfortunately, however, we do not know this. We are conducting
scientific research, but we do not know that every living entity is a spiri-
tual soul, with no birth and no death. This is our ignorance. The soul is
eternal, everlasting, and primeval (nityah sasvato 'yam purano). The soul
does not die with the annihilation of the body (na hanyate hanyamdane
Sarire). But although the soul does not die, it accepts another body, and
this is called bhava-roga, the material disease.

Since Krsna is the supreme living entity (nityo nityanadm cetanas
cetananam), we are exactly like Krsna, the difference being that Krsna is
vibhu, unlimited, whereas we are anu, limited. Qualitatively, we are as
good as Krsna. Therefore whatever propensities Krsna has, we have also.
For example, Krsna has the propensity to love someone of the opposite
sex, and therefore we have this same propensity. The beginning of love is
present in the eternal love between Radha and Krsna. We are also seek-
ing eternal love, but because we are conditioned by the material laws, our
love is interrupted. But if we can transcend this interruption, we can take
part in loving affairs similar to those of Krsna and Radharani. Our aim
should therefore be to go back home, back to Krsna, because since Krsna
is eternal, we shall there receive an eternal body.

Kunti says, kecid adhur ajam jatam: the supreme eternal, the supreme
unborn, has now taken His birth. But although Krsna takes birth, His
birth is not like ours. That we should know. The Lord says in Bhagavad-
gita (4.9):

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna

““One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and ac-
tivities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this ma-
terial world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”

It is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam that when Krsna first appeared,
He did not take birth from the womb of Devaki; rather, He first appeared
in the majestic four-armed form of Visnu, and then He became a small
child on Devaki’s lap. Therefore Krsna’s birth is transcendental, whereas
our birth takes place by force, by the laws of nature. Krsna is not under
the laws of nature; the laws of nature work under Him (mayddhyaksena
prakrtih suiyate sa-caracaram). Prakrti, nature, works under the order of
Krsna, and we work under the order of nature. Krsna is the master of
