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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse and …

yadā mṛdhe kaurava-sṛñjayānāṁ vīreṣv atho vīra-gatiṁ gateṣu vṛkodarāviddha-gadābhimarśa- bhagnoru-daṇḍe dhṛtarāṣṭra-putre bhartuḥ priyaṁ drauṇir iti sma paśyan kṛṣṇā-sutānāṁ svapatāṁ śirāṁsi

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Translation = "When the respective warriors of both camps, namely the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas, were killed on the Battlefield …

Prabhupāda:

yadā mṛdhe kaurava-sṛñjayānāṁ vīreṣv atho vīra-gatiṁ gateṣu vṛkodarāviddha-gadābhimarśa- bhagnoru-daṇḍe dhṛtarāṣṭra-putre

bhartuḥ priyaṁ drauṇir iti sma paśyan kṛṣṇā-sutānāṁ svapatāṁ śirāṁsi upāharad vipriyam eva tasya jugupsitaṁ karma vigarhayanti

So Drauṇi, Droṇācārya's son, a brāhmaṇa, but he took the profession of a kṣatriya. That is degradation. When a brāhmaṇa …

So here it is said, yadā mṛdhe kaurava-sṛñjayānām. In the fight, all the parties who died, they all obtained vīra-gatim. …

Then at last the fighting was between Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Bhīma. This vṛkodara... Vṛkodarāviddha-gadābhimarśa. Both of them, Duryodhana and Bhīma, they …

But they remained silent. Silent means they did not like the idea. Because Bhīma had many old grudges against Duryodhana, …

So the story is that Gāndhārī, the mother of Duryodhana, she was great chaste woman. Because her husband was blind, …

Bhagnoru-daṇḍe dhṛtarāṣṭra-putre. Dhṛtarāṣṭra-putra, Duryodhana was dhṛtarāṣṭra-putra. At that time, Drauṇi, his master was Duryodhana. A brāhmaṇa became a servant of …

So to become Vaiṣṇava is not so easy thing. One has to become brāhmaṇa, then when he surpasses the stages …

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin vetti māṁ tattvataḥ

[Bg. 7.3]

To understand Kṛṣṇa tattvataḥ, in truth, that is not so easy. It is possible for a man out of many …

So that tattvataḥ one can understand simply by pure devotional service. If you become a pure devotee, without any contamination---unalloyed …

So we have to wait for that opportunity when Kṛṣṇa reveals. How that revelation is possible? Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved …