About Mother Gandhari!

Verse 1.13.3-4 (Yugal Kishore Prji):

* Srila Prabhupada (SP) very nicely described the good qualities of Mother Gandhari.
* Saintly persons themselves are holy places. Wherever they go, it becomes a holy place. SP, wherever he went, there is a temple now. Because he carried Vrindavan in his heart.
* Same is the case with Vidhura.
* If we become a devotee, keep Krishna always in our heart, then we can also become like that.
* Bilvamangala thakur says: Krishna can slip off from my hands cause I am blind, can He slip off from my heart. That is love for Krishna. He is always present in the hearts of pure devotees.
* Mother Gandhari had many very good qualities, but had the natural frailties of a woman. SP is not speaking about a particular gender, but the nature of living entity. Whoever is envious, had frailties like a woman.
* You may have so many good qualities, but still at the end she came to curse Krishna, the SPG. So all the characteristics is a show if we don't recognize the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the height of envy!
* Familiarity is a problem of this world.
* But Gandhari was very faithful to her husband and because of that Dhritharastra attained paramatma realization of the Lord. And she also passed away following her husband, in the himalayas.