198 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI
world to reclaim His devotees and to annihilate the disturbing elements
in groups of political parties and kings who are supposed to be in charge
of administration work. He creates, maintains, and annihilates by His un-
limited energies, and still He is always full with prowess and does not
deteriorate in potency. The cows, the brahmanas, and the devotees of the
Lord are all objects of His special attention because they are very impor-
tant factors for the general welfare of living beings.

Kunti addresses Lord Krsna as krsna-sakha because she knows that al-
though Arjuna, who is also known as Krsna, is her son and therefore
subordinate to her, Lord Krsna is more intimately related with Arjuna
than with her. Krsna is also a name of Draupadi, and so the word krsna-
sakha also indicates Lord Krsna’s relationship with Draupadi, whom He
saved from being insulted when Duryodhana and Karna attempted to
strip her naked. Kunti also addresses Lord Krsna as vrsni-rsabha, the
child of the dynasty of Vrsni. It was because Krsna appeared in the Vrsni
dynasty that this dynasty became famous, just as Malaysia and the
Malaya Hills became famous because of the sandalwood that grows there.

Kuntidevi also addresses Lord Krsna as the destroyer of the political
parties or royal dynasties that disturb the earth. In every monarchy, the
king is honored very gorgeously. Why? Since he is a human being and
the other citizens are also human beings, why is the king so honored?
The answer is that the king, like the spiritual master, is meant to be the
representative of God. In the Vedic literature it is said, @caryvam mam vi-
janiyan ndvamanyeta karhicit (Bhag. 11.17.27): the spiritual master
should not be regarded as an ordinary human being. Similarly, a king or
president is also not treated like an ordinary human being.

In the Sanskrit language the king is also called naradeva, which means
‘‘God in human form.”’ His duty is like that of Krsna. As God is the
supreme living being in the universe and is the maintainer of all other
living beings, the king is the supreme citizen in the state and is responsi-
ble for the welfare of all others.

Just as we are all living beings, Krsna, God, is also a living being.
Krsna is not impersonal. Because we are all individual persons but our
knowledge and opulence are limited, the impersonalists cannot adjust to
the idea that the Supreme, the original, unlimited cause of everything,
can also be a person. Because we are limited and God is unlimited, the
Mayavadis, or impersonalists, with their poor fund of knowledge, think
that God must be impersonal. Making a material comparison, they say
that just as the sky, which we think of as unlimited, is impersonal, if God
is unlimited He must also be impersonal.
