Speacial Bonus Class- Srimad Bhagavatam1.13.12 --"Dear Words For Dormant Hearts"Given By Srila Prabhupada-Geneva, June 3, 1974

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"Dear Words For Dormant Hearts"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.12

Geneva, June 3, 1974

 

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Nitai: Translation: "Thus being questioned by Maharaja Yudhisthira,

Mahatma Vidura gradually described everything he had personally experienced,

except the news of the annihilation of the Yadu dynasty."

 

Prabhupada:

 

ity ukto dharma-rajena

sarvam tat samavarnayat

yathanubhutam kramaso

vina yadu-kula-ksayam

 

Yadu-kula-ksayam. The Yadu dynasty... When Krsna was present, the family

members were about ten millions. This is Krsna. Everything is wonderful. He

married 16,108 wives, and each wife had ten children, and each child begot

another ten children. In this way, the Yadu-kula was a very big family. So they

were destroyed.

 

There are two comments on this point, why Yadu-kula was destroyed by

Krsna's plan. One comment is that if they would continue to live, then the same

misconception, that a brahmana is born in the brahmana family -- they would

continue to speak that "We are also gods, because we are born of God's family,

Krsna's family." Just like in India there is a class, they call themselves

Nityananda-vamsa, descendants of Lord Nityananda. But that does not actually

happen. And another comment is that all these members of Yadu-kula, they

appeared in the Yadu-kula just to enhance the opulence of Krsna. But they came

from different heavenly planets to help Krsna in His incarnation. Just like a

big man, wherever he goes there are many others also go there to help him. When

a king goes somewhere, the king does not go alone. He goes with his secretaries,

his military commanders, and so many other companions. So these Yadu-kulas were

like that. They came to help Krsna's lila, pastimes, within this material world.

So some of them were born as sons of Krsna, some of them as grandson, as

great-grandson, and Krsna did not want to leave them behind. Krsna was planning

to go back to His Vaikuntha, Vrndavana planet. So He did not like that they

should remain. They should also go back. Now, to go back means they must meet

death after..., because otherwise it is unnatural. So... And who can kill them?

Nobody can kill them. That is also another point. The family of Krsna, there is

no power in the whole world that anybody could kill them. So Krsna planned that

they should be killed amongst themselves by fighting. So another lesson is that

if we fight amongst ourselves, even we belong to the family of Krsna, we are

ruined. This is the instance of Yadu-kula. Although they belonged to Krsna's

family directly, still, because they fought amongst themselves, they were all

banished, vanquished.

 

So this was not a very palatable incident. So Vidura, when he was asked by

Maharaja Yudhisthira about the family members of Yadu-kula, he did not describe

it, because they were very thickly related as family members, so it would be a

great shock to the Pandavas that Yadu-kula, descendants of the Yadu-kula, had

been annihilated in such an unpalatable way. So he did not describe.

Yathanubhutam kramasah. Ity ukto dharma-rajena sarvam tat samavarnayat. He

described everything. Vina yadu-kula-ksayam. Vina. Vina means "without." Without

the incidence, how the Yadu-kula was destroyed by fighting amongst themselves.

 

nanv apriyam durvisaham

nrnam svayam upasthitam

navedayat sakaruno

duhkhitan drastum aksamah

 

He did not describe because he did not like also to see that Pandavas

would be sorry. He went back to his home after so many years, and they were

receiving them, and at that time Vidura did not like to see them aggrieved on

account of this incidence.

 

kancit kalam athavatsit

sat-krto devavat sukham

bhratur jyesthasya sreyas-krt

sarvesam sukham avahan

 

Vidura left his home for good. It is not that he has again come back to

live with his family members. No. His only purpose was that his elder brother

Dhrtarastra was rotting there. He lost everything. He lost his kingdom, lost his

sons, grandsons and everything. Still, he could not give up the so-called

material happiness. He was... Of course, these Pandavas, they were treating

Maharaja Dhrtarastra and his wife Gandhari very gorgeously as head of the

family, but he was not ashamed that he intrigued so much difficulties and plot

against the Pandavas. There was big fight, Kuruksetra, in which he lost

everything. Still, he was living under their care for some material comforts. So

this was very shameful affair. So Vidura was very much attracted, attached to

Maharaja Dhrtarastra. Therefore, bhratur jyesthasya sreyas-krt. Bhratuh means

brother, and jyestha means elder. So actually, Vidura went there for the benefit

of Dhrtarastra. Therefore, kancit kalam atha avatsit. He decided to live at home

along with the family members for some time.

 

Avatsit. Sat-krto devavat sukham. He was living just like in the opulence

of demigods. Because they were all nephews. Pandavas were so well-behaved,

cultured devotees, and Vidura was devotee. So he was treated just like devavat,

godly. That is required. Just like whenever I go anywhere, they treat me very

nicely, I live very comfortably, similarly, Vidura was treated by the Pandavas

to live very comfortably, devavat, just like godly standard. But he did not live

there for getting some material comforts. His aim was that "This poor man,

Dhrtarastra, my elder brother, he has not yet been lessoned, that what is the

value of these material comforts." He was living shamelessly. So he wanted to

instruct him, and thus he lived there for some time.

 

kancit kalam athavatsit

sat-krto devavat sukham

bhratur jyesthasya sreyas-krt

sarvesam sukham avahan

 

So although he especially lived in the palace for the benefit of his elder

brother, still, so long he lived, it was a very pleasing time for all of them.

Because he was living not as a dull or dumb man. He was speaking about Krsna.

Therefore everyone was feeling very happy. (reads purport:) "Saintly persons

like Vidura must be treated as well as a denizen from heaven.As well as a

denizen from heaven." Yes. If any saintly person comes at home, formerly this

was the system. In our childhood we have seen. Many saintly persons used to

come, and my father used to receive them very nicely, some of them. Still, the

system is if you go to any Indian village and... I mean to say, those who are

sannyasis, saintly person, they are received very well. Just like Caitanya

Mahaprabhu, when He was touring in South India, so many brahmanas were coming to

invite him. That is the system. He hasn't got to bother for his food or shelter

any place. That is the system.

 

So Vidura,

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