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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 1 · Chapter 13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home
1.13.231.13.25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.13.24

Ūti· What drives us to act
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Vidurasince 1.13.18inside 1 frame: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya

अग्निर्निसृष्टो दत्तश्च गरो दाराश्च

दूषिता: ।

हृतं क्षेत्रं धनं येषां तद्दत्तैरसुभि: कियत् ॥ २४ ॥

agnir nisṛṣṭo dattaś ca

garo dārāś ca dūṣitāḥ

hṛtaṁ kṣetraṁ dhanaṁ yeṣāṁ

tad-dattair asubhiḥ kiyat

Translation

There is no need to live a degraded life and subsist on the charity of those whom you tried to kill by arson and poisoning. You also insulted their married wife and usurped their kingdom and wealth.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Make Room in Life for Self-Realization

  1. 1

    Vidura reminded Dhṛtarāṣṭra that he was accepting support from those he had gravely wronged. His attachment kept him in a humiliating condition.

  2. 2

    The varṇāśrama system sets aside a portion of life completely for self-realization and salvation. Household involvement is not meant to occupy the whole of human life.

  3. 3

    Śrīla Prabhupāda stresses the need for teachers like Vidura. They educate those who cling to family or political life even in advanced age.

Key points from the purport
  • The system of varṇāśrama religion sets aside a part of one’s life completely for the purpose of self-realization and attainment of salvation in the human form of life.
  • That is a routine division of life, but persons like Dhṛtarāṣṭra, even at their weary ripened age, want to stay home, even in a degraded condition of accepting charity from enemies.
  • To stick to family life to the end of one’s human life is the grossest type of degradation and there is an absolute need for the Viduras to educate such Dhṛtarāṣṭras, even at the present moment.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Bereavement → Renunciation. The worldly support system recedes and attachment is exposed.

Chapters 13–15 of Canto 1: Dhṛtarāṣṭra departs; Kṛṣṇa disappears; Pāṇḍavas retire. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home

Vidura warns of inevitable death; Dhṛtarāṣṭra leaves home, and Yudhiṣṭhira finds his elders absent.

Back to this verse in chapter 1.13
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. agniḥfire
  2. nisṛṣṭaḥset
  3. dattaḥgiven
  4. caand
  5. garaḥpoison
  6. dārāḥmarried wife
  7. caand
  8. dūṣitāḥinsulted
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Ūti · The creative impetus

    Why do we act, and what keeps us bound? · Subject 5 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 1.13

    In this verse: “wealth”, “attachment”, “household”

  • Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership

    Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 1.13

    In this verse: “kingdom”

  • Dharma · Duty and righteous conduct

    Right action as duty, responsibility and devotion. · Theme in SB 1.13

    In this verse: “varṇāśrama”

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What space are you deliberately making for self-realization?

Practice

Reserve a short period today for self-realization, free from household or work tasks.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayMake Room in Life for Self-RealizationThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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