The divine vision!

 

As Dhritrāshtra was lamenting, Vidura continued: Dear king! Just as a traveller has to make regular stops when he becomes tired, so the living entity traversing the path of material existence has to again & again take shelter within the wombs of different mothers. Because of this inconvenience, the wise person very carefully gives up lust, anger & greed. He restrains his senses & speaks only that which is truthful, so that he can escape the slaughtering process of repeated birth & death

 

Although Dhritrāshtra was listening, his mind continually dragged him back to the recollection of his miserable condition & he fainted. Vyāsdeva, Sanjay & Vidura rushed to pick him. They sprinkled water and fanned him. Dhritrāshtra regained his consciousness but proceeded to weep very bitterly for a long time. He suddenly exclaimed: I realize the intolerable condition of human existence & so will put an end to my life this very day

 

Vyāsdev said: Dear son, don’t grieve so much for the deaths of your children. Once I happened to come to Indra’s assembly & saw him surrounded by great demigods & kings. At that time the presiding deity of the earth was begging him to quickly accomplish that which had already been agreed in Brahmaloka

 

At that time Sri Vishnu appearing as Indra’s younger brother Vāmana, smilingly said: My dear Bhumi, be assured that the eldest son of Dhritrāshtra will soon relieve you of your burden by causing all proud kings to assemble at Kurukshetra for their destruction

 

Dear king! Duryodhana was an incarnation of the personality of Kali & was destined to bring about the wholesale annihilation that you lament for. On the other hand, the Pāndavas are faultless & so you should excuse them

 

At the time of Rājsuya sacrifice, sage Narad had informed Maharāj Yudhisthira that in the future the Pāndavas & Kauravas would fight with one another, causing a terrible massacre of Kshatriyas. Ever since that time, Yudhisthira tried his best to keep peaceful relations with his cousins, but it was not possible for him to do so because it was the mission of the demigods to remove the burden of the earth

 

Now Maharāj Yudhisthira will be pronounced as the emperor of the world for the benefit of all living beings. You should not think of giving up your life due to hopelessness. Instead pass your remaining days performing austerities. In that way you will insure your future welfare

 

The Supreme Lord knows all. What we see with our naked eyes is not the reality. Sri Krsna says:

jñānaṁ te ’haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo ’nyaj jñātavyam avaśiṣyate

 

I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know

 

Complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both. This is transcendental knowledge

 

We all need to have that Gyāna-chaksuh–the divine vision to understand the reality which is very different from the appearance, visible to our bare eyes

 

Thoughts? #gameoflife

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