Shloka 35
Kuntī’s Prayers and the Neutralization of the Brahmāstra
Uttarā Protected; Yudhiṣṭhira’s Grief Begins
भवेऽस्मिन् क्लिश्यमानानामविद्याकामकर्मभि: । श्रवणस्मरणार्हाणि करिष्यन्निति केचन ॥ ३५ ॥
bhave ’smin kliśyamānānām avidyā-kāma-karmabhiḥ śravaṇa-smaraṇārhāṇi kariṣyann iti kecana
Und wieder andere sagen, Du seist erschienen zum Heil der gebundenen Seelen, die durch Unwissenheit, Begierde und Karma leiden, um Bhakti—Hören, Gedenken, Verehrung und dergleichen—neu zu beleben, damit sie daraus Nutzen ziehen und Befreiung erlangen.
In the Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā the Lord asserts that He appears in every millennium just to reestablish the way of religion. The way of religion is made by the Supreme Lord. No one can manufacture a new path of religion, as is the fashion for certain ambitious persons. The factual way of religion is to accept the Lord as the supreme authority and thus render service unto Him in spontaneous love. A living being cannot help but render service because he is constitutionally made for that purpose. The only function of the living being is to render service to the Lord. The Lord is great, and living beings are subordinate to Him. Therefore, the duty of the living being is just to serve Him only. Unfortunately the illusioned living beings, out of misunderstanding only, become servants of the senses by material desire. This desire is called avidyā, or nescience. And out of such desire the living being makes different plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life. He therefore becomes entangled in the chain of birth and death by transmigrating into different bodies on different planets under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Unless, therefore, one is beyond the boundary of this nescience, one cannot get free from the threefold miseries of material life. That is the law of nature.
FAQs
This verse explains that Krishna’s activities are performed so that suffering souls—bound by ignorance, desire, and karma—can hear and remember Him, which awakens bhakti and frees one from material bondage.
In her prayers, Kunti emphasizes that Krishna’s divine pastimes are not ordinary history; they are meant to be heard and remembered as a direct spiritual remedy for conditioned life.
Regularly hear Bhagavatam/Krishna-katha, reflect on a verse daily, and recall Krishna during routine duties—turning desire-driven habits into devotion-centered remembrance.