162 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI

prthivi-bhusanam raja
narinam bhusanam patih

Sarvari-bhisanam candro
vidya sarvasya bhiisanam

Everything looks beautiful when one is intimately related with it. The
sky, for example, becomes beautiful in relationship with the moon. The
sky is always present, but on the full-moon night, when the moon and
stars shine brilliantly, it looks very nice. Similarly, the state looks very
well if there is a good government, with a good king or president. Then
everyone is happy, and everything goes on well. Also, although girls are
naturally beautiful, a girl looks especially beautiful when she has a hus-
band. Vidya sarvasya bhisanam: but if a person, however ugly, is a
learned scholar, that is his beauty. Similarly, everything will look beauti-
ful when Krsna is present.

Therefore Kuntidevi thinks, ‘‘As long as Krsna is with us, everything
in our kingdom and our capital, Hastinapura, is beautiful. But when
Krsna is absent our kingdom will not be beautiful.’’ She says, ‘“‘Krsna,
You are now walking in our kingdom, and the impressions of Your
footprints are making everything beautiful. There is sufficient water and
fruit, and everything looks beautiful, but when You leave us it will not
look beautiful.”

It is not that this applied only when Krsna was present and Kunti was
speaking. Rather, the truth is always the same. Despite the advancement
of our civilization, if we cannot bring Krsna and Krsna consciousness
into the center of everything, our civilization will never become beauti-
ful. Those who have joined the Krsna consciousness movement were
beautiful before they joined, but now that they have become Krsna con-
scious they look especially beautiful. Therefore the newspapers often de-
scribe the devotees as ‘‘bright-faced.”’ Their countrymen remark, ‘‘How
joyful and beautiful these boys and girls have become.’’ At the present
time in America, many of the younger generation are confused and
hopeless, and therefore they appear morose and black-faced. Why? Be-
cause they are missing the point; they have no aim in life. But the devo-
tees, the Krsnaites, look very beautiful because of the presence of Krsna.

Therefore, what was a fact five thousand years ago, during the time of
the Pandavas, is still a fact now. With Krsna in the center, everything be-
comes beautiful, and Krsna can become the center at any time. Krsna is
always present, and we simply have to invite Him, ‘“‘My Lord, please
come and be in the center.”’ That’s all. To give the same example I have
