Prayer of King Kulashekar
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Purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness
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Krsna tvadiya-pada-pankaja-panjarantam. This verse was sung by King Kulashekar, a great king, but at the same time a great devotee of the Lord. His songs are recorded in the book known as Mukunda Mala Strotra. That is a very famous book. It is sung by many devotees. So it does not matter whether a man is king or a poor mendicant. Everyone has the facility to become the greatest devotee of the Lord. So he is praying, "My dear Krsna, Your feet is lotus." Generally we say lotus feet, but where the lotus flower is there, the white swan they come to the lotus flower and try to play with the stem. The sport, going down the water, and be entangled with the stem of that lotus flower. That is their sporting. So King Kulashekara is praying, that, "Let the swan of my mind be immediately entered into the network of the stem of Your lotus feet. Now my mind is sound. Let me enter immediately in the stem of Your lotus feet." That means that he is praying let me die in the sound condition of my life, so that I can think of Your lotus feet. In other words, he is giving us lessons that if we do not practice to engage our mind on the lotus feet of Krsna, when our mind is sound, how it is possible to think of Him at the time of death?
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