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Study paths

Eight routes that follow one question through several lives. Read each life's key moment in order, then sit with the question, alone or with a class.

The question of this path

How do these distinct narratives portray devotion without reducing them to one role?

Canto 12Canto 3Canto 4Canto 5Canto 6Canto 7Canto 8Canto 9Canto 10Canto 1112Devahūti · SB 3.23 · Service and household lifeDevahūti · SB 3.24 · Kapila’s appearanceDevahūti · SB 3.25 · Asking the essential questionDevahūti · SB 3.33 · Absorption and realizationAditi · SB 8.16 · A mother’s distressAditi · SB 8.16 · The payo-vrataAditi · SB 8.17 · The Lord appearsRukmiṇī Devī · SB 10.52 · Hearing of KṛṣṇaRukmiṇī Devī · SB 10.52 · A confidential messageRukmiṇī Devī · SB 10.53 · The moment of trustRukmiṇī Devī · SB 10.54 · Union and its aftermathMother Yaśodā · SB 10.8 · Seeing the universeMother Yaśodā · SB 10.9 · The butter episodeMother Yaśodā · SB 10.9 · Dāmodara-līlāMother Yaśodā · SB 10.11 · Everyday Vraja lifeThe Gopīs of Vraja · SB 10.29 · The call of the fluteThe Gopīs of Vraja · SB 10.30 · Searching through the forestThe Gopīs of Vraja · SB 10.31 · The Gopī-gītaThe Gopīs of Vraja · SB 10.32 · The Lord returnsThe Gopīs of Vraja · SB 10.47 · Uddhava witnesses their lovePiṅgalā · SB 11.8 · A restless eveningPiṅgalā · SB 11.8 · Hope becomes exhaustionPiṅgalā · SB 11.8 · An inward realization1. SB 1.7 · The aftermath of violence2. SB 1.8 · Remembering protection3. SB 1.8 · A radical prayer4. SB 1.10 · Kṛṣṇa leaves for DvārakāSB 1.8

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Queen Kuntī

Adversity becomes a prayer of remembrance

Devotion revealed
The test
What remains trustworthy after profound upheaval?
The turn
Her prayers celebrate the Lord’s presence and ask for steadfast attachment to Him.
What it teaches
The devotional meaning of hardship lies in remembrance, not in romanticizing suffering.

Key moment · Shelter

A radical prayer

She prays for unbroken remembrance and attachment to Kṛṣṇa.

In the verse · SB 1.8.25

“I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths.”

All 4 moments of Queen Kuntī

Each moment's short description, the lessons, questions and pairings are study aids drawn from the cited chapter, not words of the scripture. The verse shown with each moment is Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation, exactly; his purport is always the final word.

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