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THE TRAGIC and heroic figure of Queen Kuntī emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. As the wife of King Pāṇḍu and the mother of five illustrious sons (the Pāṇḍavas), she was a central figure in a complex political drama that fifty centuries ago culminated in the devastating Kurukṣetra War.
At the conclusion of the war, Queen Kuntī approaches Lord Kṛṣṇa as He prepares to depart from the scene of battle. Although Kuntī is Lord Kṛṣṇa's aunt (He incarnated as her brother Vasudeva's son), she perfectly understands His exalted and divine identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She knows full well that He descended from His abode in the spiritual world to rid the earth of demoniac military forces and reestablish peace and righteousness. Thus the prayers she offers Him on this occasion are not the conventional pious solicitations. Rather, they are philosophical reflections, devotional illuminations, even mystical exultations. As such they have been recorded and immortalized in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, India's greatest philosophical and spiritual classic.
Queen Kuntī's prayers—the simple and illuminating outpourings of the soul of a great and saintly woman devotee—reveal both the deepest transcendental emotions of the heart and the most profound philosophical and theological penetrations of the intellect. Her words have been recited, chanted, and sung by sages and philosophers in India for thousands of years.
Teachings of Queen Kuntī consists of Kuntī's celebrated prayers as recorded in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam together with illuminating commentary by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda—Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the most renowned Vedic scholar and religious leader of our time and author of more than seventy volumes of translation and commentary on India's ancient Vedic literature.
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Teachings of Lord Caitanya
The Nectar of Devotion
The Nectar of Instruction
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Easy Journey to Other Planets
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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
Dialectical Spiritualism—A Vedic View ofWestern Philosophy
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Transcendental Teachings of Prahlāda Mahāraja
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Kṛṣṇa, the Reservior of Pleasure
The Science of Self-Realization
Life Comes From Life
The Perfection of Yoga
Beyond Birth and Death
On the Way to Kṛṣṇa
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Bhakti-ratna-bolī (Bengali)
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Buddhi-yoga (Bengali)
Bhakti-ratna-bolī (Bengali)
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Elevation to Kṛṣṇa Consciousness
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Bhaktivedanta Swami, A.C., 1896-1977.
Teachings of Queen Kuntī.
Bibliography: p.
Includes Index.
BL1132.K8B45 294.5'43 78-20437
ISBN 0-89213-102-0
Teachings of Queen Kuntī.
Bibliography: p.
Includes Index.
BL1132.K8B45 294.5'43 78-20437
ISBN 0-89213-102-0