SB (1965) Thirteenth Chapter - Dhritarastra Quits Home
SB 1.13.1 (1965): Sri Suta Goswami said that Vidura while travelling in the pilgrimages received knowledge about the destination of the self from the great sage Maitreya and thus came back to Hastinapur. He became well-versed in the subject as fully as he wanted to have it.
SB 1.13.2 (1965): Vidura did retire from putting questionaires before Maitreya Muni after his enquiry by various questionaires and being fixed up in the transcendental loving service unto Lord Sri Krishna.
SB 1.13.3-4 (1965): When they saw him (Vidura) come back again in the palace all the inmates, Maharaj Yudhisthir along with younger brothers, Dhritarastra, Satyaki, Sanjaya, Kripacharya, Kunti, Gandhari, Droupadi, Subhadra, Uttara, Kripi, and many others who were wives of Kauravas and other ladies with their children all hurriedly went towards him with great delight and it so appeared that all of them regained consciousness after a pretty long period.
SB 1.13.5 (1965): In great delight all of them went towards him as if life has returned back in the body and they exchanged obeisances and embracing in due manner just to welcome and receive each other.
SB 1.13.6 (1965): On account of anxieties and long separation all of them emanated emotional tears out of affection. The King (YUDHISTHIRA) then arranged for offering sitting accommodation and performances of reception.
SB 1.13.7 (1965): After feeding Vidura sumptuously and his taking sufficient rest, he was seated on a comfortable accomodation and thus the king began to speak being heard by them all present there.
SB 1.13.8 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthir said, "my uncle do you remember us who were always protected by you along with our mother from all sorts of calamities by your partiality wings of a bird even in the matter of administration of poison to us or setting on fire to our home?"
SB 1.13.9 (1965): While travelling on the surface of the earth how did you maintain your livelihood and while doing so which of the principal holy places and pilgrimages on the earth you have served.
SB 1.13.10 (1965): My Lord! devotees like your goodself are themselves holy places in person. Because you carry with you, within your heart, the Personality of Godhead and as such you render all places into a pilgrimage.
SB 1.13.11 (1965): My uncle! you must have visited the holy pilgrimage Dwarka and in that holy place there are our friends and well wishers the descendant of Yadu who are always wrapt in the service of the Lord Shri Krishna. You might have either seen them or heard about them. Are they all living happily in their abode?
SB 1.13.12 (1965): Thus being asked by Maharaj Yudhisthir, Mahatma Vidura gradually one after another described everything what he personally experienced except the news of annihilation of the Yadu dynasty.
SB 1.13.13 (1965): Compassionate Mahatma Vidura was unable to see the Pandavas distressed at any time. As such he did not disclose this unpalatable and unbearable incidence to the Pandavas because such calamities were to come in their own way.
SB 1.13.14 (1965): Thus Mahatma Vidura being well treated by his kinsmen just like a godly person, he remained there for a certain period just for the sake of rectifying the mentality of his eldest brother and by the way happiness was invited for all others.
SB 1.13.15 (1965): As long as Vidura played the part of so called Sudra being cursed by Manduk Muni (see page 750) Aryama officiated the post of Yamaraj to punish those who committed sinful acts.
SB 1.13.16 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthir after achieving his kingdom and having observed the existence of one grandsom just competent to continue the noble tradition of his family, reigned peacefully to enjoy uncommon opulence in co-operation with his younger brothers each of whom were all perfect administrators for the mass of population.
SB 1.13.17 (1965): Thus the insurmountable eternal time imperceptibly surpasses persons who are insanely too much attached in the matter of family affairs, for their being so engrossed in the thought.
SB 1.13.18 (1965): Mahatma Vidura knew all these and therefore he addressed Dhritarastra and said 'my dear King, please get out immediately without the least delay and just see how fearfulness has overtaken you.'
SB 1.13.19 (1965): (The fearful situation) has no remedial measure from any source or by any person in this material world. Oh my lord it is, therefore, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and it has approached for all of us.
SB 1.13.20 (1965): Anyone who may be under the influence of Supreme Kala (eternal time) must have to surrender one's most dear life and what to speak of other, non-important things such as wealth etc.
SB 1.13.21 (1965): Your father, brother, well wishers and sons all are dead and passed away. You have expended the major portion of your age, your body is now over taken by invalidity and at last you are living in the home of others.
SB 1.13.22 (1965): (Personally) you are blind from the very beginning of your birth and there is no doubt about it and recently you have become hard of hearing, your memory shortened and intelligence disturbed your teeth loosened and the liveraction being decreased, you are coughing with sound and mucus coming out.
SB 1.13.23 (1965): Alas ! how much powerful is the hope of a living being to continue a life as much as you are living just like a household dog eating the remnant bits of foodstuff given by Bheema !
SB 1.13.24 (1965): There is no necessity of living a degraded life subsisted by the charity of those whom you tried to kill by setting on fire in their house by administering poison, by insulting their married wife, by usurping their kingdom and wealth.
SB 1.13.25 (1965): Inspite of your such wishful desire for living even at the cost of honour and prestige your miserly body will certainly dwindle like the deteriorated old garment although you are unwilling to die.
SB 1.13.26 (1965): The person who quits his material body which is not properly utilised, in an unknown destination indifferently and freed from all obligations, is called undisturbed.
SB 1.13.27 (1965): A person who understands by awakening of conscience in the matter of falsity and miserableness of this material world, either by awakening of his ownself or by hearing from other and thus goes away from home depending fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within one's heart,-is certainly the first class human being.
SB 1.13.28 (1965): Please therefore, go away immediately towards the northern side without any knowledge of your relatives because just in the near future after this the time is approaching which will diminish man's good qualities.
SB 1.13.29 (1965): Thus Maharaj Dhritarastra, the scion of the family of Ajmidha, being firmly convinced by introspective knowledge, broke up at once the strong network of family affection on account of resolute determination and therefore at once he got out of home for going over the path of liberation as directed by his younger brother Vidura.
SB 1.13.30 (1965): Gandhari who was the daughter of King Subala of Kandahar (or Gandhar) seeing that her husband was going to Himalayan mountains the delight of those who have accepted the rod of renounced order like a great fighter who accepts legitimate good lashing from the enemy, the gentle chaste lady followed him.
SB 1.13.31 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthira whose enemy was never born, performed his daily morning duties by prayers, offering sacrifice in the fire and the Sungod and offered obeisances to the Brahmins along with grains, cows, land, gold and then entered the palace to pay respects to the elderly members in the palace. He however could not find out his uncle and aunt the daughter of King Subala.
SB 1.13.32 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthira full with anxious mind asked Sanjaya who was sitting on the spot and said, "Oh Sanjaya where is our uncle who is advanced in age and blind by the eyes?"
SB 1.13.33 (1965): Where is my well wisher uncle Vidura and mother Gandhari who is too much afflicted on account of her all sons' demise? My uncle Dhritarastra was also too much mortified on account of death of all his sons and grand sons. Undoubtedly I am very much ungrateful: did he therefore, took my offences very seriously and thus along with his wife have drowned themselves in the water of the Ganges?
SB 1.13.34 (1965): When my father Pandu fell down and we were all small children only at that time our these two uncles gave us protection from all kinds of calamities. They were always our good well wishers, alas where they have gone out from this place?
SB 1.13.35 (1965): Suta Goswami said. 'Sanjaya having not seen his own Master Dhritarastra out of full compassion for and derangement of his mental situation and being too much aggrieved, could not properly reply Maharaj Yudhisthira.'
SB 1.13.36 (1965): Then he slowly pacified his mind by intelligence, smeared over tears of the eyes by his hands and after thinking of the feet of his Master Dhritarastra began to reply to Maharaj Yudhisthira.
SB 1.13.37 (1965): Sanjaya said, 'My dear descendant of the Kuru dynasty, I have no information about the determination of your two uncles as well as of Gandhari. Oh the great King, I have been cheated by those great souls'
SB 1.13.38 (1965): Thereafter, while Sanjay was speaking like that Sri Narada the powerful devotee of the Lord appeared on the scene and Maharaj Yudhisthir and brothers while receiving Him properly by getting up from their seats and offering obeisances along with his younger brothers, said as follows.
SB 1.13.39 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthir said, 'Oh godly personality, I do not know where have my two uncles gone away; not only they but also my ascetic aunt who has lost all her sons and therefore much aggrieved, is also not traceable'
SB 1.13.40 (1965): You are like the captain of the ship in the great ocean and you can give us the direction of the other end. On this the Godly personality Devarshi Narada the greatest amongst the philosopher devotees, began to say.
SB 1.13.41 (1965): Oh the pious king do not lament for anyone because everyone is under the control of the Supreme Lord. As such all living beings including their respective leaders do carry on the means of worship for being-protected. It is He only who gets them together and He disperses them also.
SB 1.13.42 (1965): As the cow being woven by threads in the nose and bound up by long rope is conditioned, so also human being is tied up by different nomenclatures of Vedic injunctions and conditioned to obey the orders of the Supreme.
SB 1.13.43 (1965): As by the sweet will of the player the playthings are set up and again dispersed, so also by the Supreme will of the Lord men are associated with other particular men and again they are separated.
SB 1.13.44 (1965): Oh the King! in all circumstances either you consider the soul as eternal principle or the material body as perishable or everything in the impersonal Absolute Truth or the whole thing as inexplicable combination of matter and spirit, feelings of separation is due only to an illusory affection and nothing more.
SB 1.13.45 (1965): Therefore give up your disparity of mind on account of ignorance of yourself as you are thinking of how they, who are helpless poor creatures, shall exist certainly without you.
SB 1.13.46 (1965): This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time, actions and the modes of material nature. How then it can protect others already being under the jaws of the serpent.
SB 1.13.47 (1965): Those who are devoid of hands are subsistence for those who are endowed with hands, those who are devoid of legs are of the four legged. As such the weak is the subsistence of the strong and the general rule is that one living being is the food for another living being.
SB 1.13.48 (1965): Therefore oh the king you should look unto the Supreme Lord only who is one only without a second and manifests Himself by different energies as differently situated within and without.
SB 1.13.49 (1965): That Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna Kalarupa-in the disguise of Kala has now at the present moment descended on the earth for eleminating the envious from this world.
SB 1.13.50 (1965): The Lord has already performed His duties to help the demigods and the rest is being awaited by Him. You Pandavas may wait so long as the Lord is here on this earth.
SB 1.13.51 (1965): "Oh the King your uncle Dhritarastra along with his brother Vidura and his own wife Gandhri, have gone to the southern side of the Himalayan mountains where there are shelters of the great sages"
SB 1.13.52 (1965): The place is called as 'Saptasrota' on account of the water of the sacred Ganges river being furcated in the seven divisions of currents which was done for the satisfaction of the seven great Rishis.
SB 1.13.53 (1965): In that 'Saptasrota' bank of the sevenly divided Ganges, Dhritarastra would now be engaged in the beginning of Astanga Yoga practice by taking bath three times in the morning, noon and evening and performing Agnihotra sacrifice in the fire and fasting by drinking water only. This would help in controlling the mind and the senses being completely freed from thoughts of family affection.
SB 1.13.54 (1965): One who has conquered over the sitting postures (the Yogic Asana) and thus controlled over the breathing process can turn back the senses towards the Absolute Personality of Godhead and thus become immune from the contaminations of the modes of material nature namely worldly goodness, passion and ignorance.
SB 1.13.55 (1965): Dhritarastra had to amalgamate his pure identity with intelligence then merge into the Supreme Being with knowledge of qualitatively one with the Supreme Brahman as living entity. And doing this he had to transcend in the spiritual sky being freed from the blocked sky.
SB 1.13.56 (1965): He had now suspended all sense action even from the outside and was completely able of not being distributed by the interaction of the senses influenced by the modes of material nature. After renouncement of all sorts of material duties he is now fixed up as immovable and do not become the source of hindrances on the path.
SB 1.13.57 (1965): Oh the king he shall quit his body most probably on the fifth day from to-day and that also will turn into ashes.
SB 1.13.58 (1965): While observing her husband, from outside, burning in the fire of mystic power along with the thatched cottage, the chaste lady would enter in to the fire while looking very attentively.
SB 1.13.59 (1965): Vidura also shall go away from that place for being enlivened in sacred pilgrimages being affected with delight and grief.
SB 1.13.60 (1965): After trying all these the great sage Narada along with His string instrument Tumburu got up in the outer space and Yudhisthira keeping his instructions at heart was able to get rid of all lamentations.