Text 6] Questions by Vidura 5

TRANSLATION

Sri Sita Gosvami said: The great sage Sukadeva Gosvami was highly
experienced and was pleased with the King. Thus being questioned by the
King, he said to him, Please hear the topics attentively.

TEXT 6

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Sri Suka uvaca
yada tu raja sva-sutan asadhun
pusnan na dharmena vinasta-drstih

bhratur yavisthasya sutan vibandhun
pravesya laksa-bhavane dadaha

ri Sukah uvaca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; yada— when; tu—but; raja—
King Dhrtarastra; sva-sutan—his own sons; asadhun—dishonest; pusnan—
nourished; na—never; dharmena—on the right path; vinasta-drstih—one who
has lost his insight; bhratuh—of his brother; yavisthasya—younger; sutan—
sons; vibandhun—having no guardian (father); pravesya—made to enter;
laksa—lacquer; bhavane—in the house; dadaha—set on fire.

TRANSLATION

Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: King Dhrtaragtra became blind under the
influence of impious desires to nourish his dishonest sons, and thus he set
fire to the lacquer house to burn his fatherless nephews, the Pandavas.

PURPORT

Dhrtarastra was blind from birth, but his blindness in committing
impious activities to support his dishonest sons was a greater blindness
than his physical lack of eyesight. The physical lack of sight does not bar
one from spiritual progress. But when one is blind spiritually, even though
physically fit, that blindness is dangerously detrimental to the progressive
path of human life.
