What most people think are curses-things like disease, old age, loss of loved ones, bad luck, and death-are like blessings to a devotee. The essential verse in this regard is when Queen Kunti prays: “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.” (S.B.1.8.25)