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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 14]
TRANSLATION
Have you not taken care of old men and boys who deserve to dine with you? Have you left them and taken your meals alone? Have you committed some unpardonable mistake which is considered to be abominable?
PURPORT
It is the duty of a householder to feed first of all the children and old members of the family, the  brāhmaṇas  and the invalids. Besides that, an ideal householder is required to call for any unknown hungry man to come and dine before he himself goes to take his meals. He is required to call for such a hungry man thrice on the road. The neglect of this prescribed duty of a householder, especially in the matter of the old men and children, is unpardonable.
TEXT 44
कश्चित् ग्रेष्ठतमेनाथ हृदयेनत्स्मबन्धुना । शून्योऽसि रहितो नित्यं मन्यसे तेऽन्यथा न रुक्। ४४।
kaccit preṣṭhatamenātha hṛdayenātma-bandhunā śūnyo 'smi rahito nityam manyase te'nyathā na ruk
kaccit —whether;  preṣṭhatamena —unto the most dear one;  atha —my brother Arjuna;  hṛdayena —most intimate;  ātma-bandhunā —own friend Lord Kṛṣṇa;  śūnyaḥ —void;  asmi —I am;  rahitaḥ —having lost;  nityam —for all time;  manyase —you think;  te —your;  anyathā —otherwise;  na —never;  ruk —mental distress.
TRANSLATION
Or is it that you are feeling empty all the time because you might have lost your most intimate friend Lord Kṛṣṇa? O my brother Arjuna, I can think of no other reason for you becoming so dejected.
PURPORT
All the inquisitiveness of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira about the world situation was already conjectured by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira on the basis of Lord Kṛṣṇa's disappearance from the vision of the world, and this was now