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

[SB 1.13.12]

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Prabhupāda:

[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 …

[SB 1.13.13]

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

[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 …

[SB 1.13.14]

So although he especially lived in the palace for the benefit of his elder brother, still, so long he lived, …

So Vidura, he was a saintly person. He was received by the Pāṇḍavas and treated just like denizens. [reads:] "In …

"Mahātmā Vidura had already adopted the renounced order of life, and therefore he did not return to his paternal palace …

[reads:] "On the part of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, it was quite in order to maintain his uncle in a befitting manner, …

Therefore śravaṇam is very essential. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam [SB 7.5.23]. So in all our centers, this process should …