Vidura : son of Veda Vyāsa by a maid-servant of king Shāntanu’s queen Satyavatie (see Vichitravīrya). She, unlike Ambikā & Ambālikā, had not only not recoiled at the Sage’s appearance but even submitted herself to him with devotion & humility. Her son Vidura therefore inherited the Sage’s yogic capacities & turned out to be far more intuitive in Dharma & dharmic administration, hence Bhīṣma appointed him Dhṛitarāṣṭra’s chief minister. Vidura gave the best possible advice in all administrative matters & tried his best to dissuade Dhṛitarāṣṭra from blind indulgence of Duryodhana who was a tool in the hands of his maternal uncle Shakuni. When Vidura failed to stop the unleashing of the fratricidal war in Kurukshetra, he resigned & took up sanyāsa. He alone of the Kurus had from beginning realised the Divine in Krishna which is why Sri Krishna preferred his humble hospitality to Duryodhana’s opulent but false hospitality. In the end Dhṛitarāṣṭra & Gāndhāri had to join Vidura in the forest where all three perished in a purifying flash fire.
... son's ambition. The Rajasuya Sacrifice had also undoubtedly identified Yudhisthere in men's minds with the imperialistic impulse of the times. We are given some important hints in the Udyogapurva. When Vidura remonstrates with Krishna for coming to Hastinapura, he tells him it was highly imprudent for him to venture there knowing as he did that the city was full of kings all burning with enmity against... कृष्णसखो भवेत् ॥ व्रात्याः संश्लिष्टकर्माणः प्रकृत्यैव च गर्हिताः । Page 296 वृष्ण्यन्धकाः कथं पार्थ प्रमाणं भवता कृताः ॥ Krishna himself is perfectly conscious of this; he tells Vidura that he must make efforts towards peace both to deliver his soul & to justify himself in the eyes of men. न मां ब्रूयुरधर्मिष्ठा मूढा ह्यसुह्रदस्तथा । शक्तो नावारयत्कृष्णः संरब्धन्कुरुपान्डवान्... intelligible line. Throughout the Mahabharata we perceive that the great weakness of the Kurus lay in the division of their counsels. There was a peace party among them led by Bhishma, Drona, Kripa & Vidura, the wise & experienced statesmen who desired justice and reconciliation with Yudhisthere and a war-party of the hot-blooded younger men led by Karna, Duhsasana & Duryodhana himself who were confident ...
... Harappans to their own language - a term that later became a derogatory term in the Indian literature. It is worth noting that according to the Mahabharata, in conveying a secret message to Yudhishtira, Vidura used the language of the Mlechchhas. The Sutras seem to have borne in mind the Satapatha Brahmana's point about language. The Vasistha Dharmasutra (VI.41)... states that an Aryan should ...
... and desire even in the midst of action or of any kind of work or all kinds of work demanded from us by the Divine. If it were not so, there would not have been great spiritual men like Janaka or Vidura in India and even there would have been no Krishna or else Krishna would have been not the Lord of Brindavan and Mathura and Dwarka or a prince and warrior or the charioteer of Kurukshetra, but ...
... suppose very few recognised him [ Krishna ] as an Avatar; certainly it was not at all a general recognition. Among the few those nearest him do not seem to have counted—it was less prominent people like Vidura etc. Page 499 Those who were with Krishna were in all appearance men like other men. They spoke and acted with each other as men with men and were not thought of by those around them ...
... the Germans. When Bansidhar told him the Mother did not wish that we should take sides with Hitler, he replied, "Sri Aurobindo says different things to different persons as Sri Krishna did to Arjuna, Vidura, etc. You don't know." SRI AUROBINDO: R knows? ...
... mythic squirrel's pebble for the building of the causeway to Lanka was more beloved of Rama than huge hillocks brought by the mightiest veterans. Krishna preferred the homely but sincere hospitality of Vidura to the lavish insincerities of Duryodhana. Since sincerity and utter truthfulness are a basic virtue and a rare blessing, it would be wise to cultivate them - or prayerfully invoke them - even as a ...
... ego and desire even in the midst of action or of any kind of work or all kinds of work demanded from us by the Divine. If it were not so, there would not have been great spiritual men like Janaka or Vidura in India and even there would have been no Krishna or else Krishna would have been not the Lord of Brindavan and Mathura and Dwarka or a prince and warrior or the charioteer of Kurukshetra, but only ...
... suppose very few recognized him as an Avatar – certainly it was not at all a general recognition. Among the few those nearest to him do not seem to have counted – it was less prominent people like Vidura etc. … Those who were with Krishna were in all appearance men like other men. They spoke and acted with each other as men with men and were not thought of by those around them as gods. Krishna himself ...
... This book has remained authoritative, and many books which have been written thereafter on Arthashastra rely upon that book. Prior to Kautilya, we have also the famous enunciations of Bhishma and Vidura. IV For the proper understanding of the Veda, not only Vedangas but also itihāsa and purānas have been recommended. From the point of view of history (itihāsa), Rāmāyana, Mahābharata ...
... That our ancients were well versed in civic administration of towns and villages, becomes clear from a simple perusal of the Mahabharata. Vyasa, its author, through the mouths of Bhishma and Vidura, explained in detail the intricacies of Statecraft. Our later kings were no less experts in administration. For example, at the time of the Vijayanagar empire "the police system," says Nilakanta ...
... was the daughter of a fisherman. King Shantanu of the Kurus, married her. There are hundreds and hundreds of such examples. Nobody was shut out of spiritual truth and culture on the ground of caste. Vidura, the half-brother of Kuru king Dhritarashtra, born of a Shudra servant-woman, was honoured for his knowledge of ethics. So much so that he was made an adviser at the court of the Kuru king. As for ...
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