Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.82.17

prithā bhrātrin svasrir vīkshya

tat-putrān pitarāv api

bhrātri-patnīr mukundam ca

jahau sańkathayā śucah

SYNONYMS

prithā — Kuntī; bhrātrin — her brothers; svasrih — and sisters; vīkshya — seeing; tat — their; putrān — children; pitarau — her parents; api — also; bhrātri — of her brothers; patnīh — the wives; mukundam — Lord Krishna; ca — also; jahau — she gave up; sańkathayā — while talking; śucah — her sorrow.

TRANSLATION

Queen Kuntī met with her brothers and sisters and their children, and also with her parents, her brothers' wives and Lord Mukunda. While talking with them she forgot her sorrow.

PURPORT

Even the constant anxiety of a pure devotee, apparently just the opposite of the impersonalists' śānti, can be an exalted manifestation of love of God, as exemplified by Śrīmatī Kuntīdevī, the aunt of Lord Krishna and mother of the Pāndavas.

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