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Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat]

ity ukto dharma-rājena sarvaṁ tat samavarṇayat yathānubhūtaṁ kramaśo vinā yadu-kula-kṣayam

[SB 1.13.12]

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Translation = "Thus being questioned by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Mahātmā Vidura gradually described everything that he had personally experienced, except the …

Prabhupāda:

ity ukto dharma-rājena sarvaṁ tat samavarṇayat yathānubhūtaṁ kramaśo vinā yadu-kula-kṣayam

[SB 1.13.12]

Yadu-kula-kṣayam. The Yadu dynasty... When Kṛṣṇa was present, the family members were about ten millions. This is Kṛṣṇa. Everything is …

There are two comments on this point, why Yadu-kula was destroyed by Kṛṣṇa plan. One comment is that if they …

So these Yadu-kulas were like that. They came to help Kṛṣṇa's līlā, pastimes, within this material world. So some of …

So this was not a very palatable incidence. So Vidura, when he was asked by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira about the family …

nanv apriyaṁ durviṣahaṁ nṛṇāṁ svayam upasthitam nāvedayat sakaruṇo duḥkhitān draṣṭum akṣamaḥ

[SB 1.13.13]

He did not describe because he did not like also to see that Pāṇḍavas would be sorry. He went back …

kañcit kālam athāvātsīt sat-kṛto devavat sukham bhrātur jyeṣṭhasya śreyas-kṛt sarveṣāṁ sukham āvahan

[SB 1.13.14]

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

Sat-kṛto devavat sukham. He was living just like in the opulence of demigods. Because they were all nephews. Pāṇḍavas were …

kañcit kālam athāvātsīt sat-kṛto devavat sukham bhrātur jyeṣṭhasya śreyas-kṛt sarveṣāṁ sukham āvahan