About this episode

The episode discusses Vidura's uncomfortable speech to Dhritarashtra about letting go and the dynamics within the Pandava household.

Vidura has returned from years of pilgrimage. He has seen enough of the world to know what he needs to say. And what he says to Dhritarashtra in the palace of the Pandavas is one of the most direct and uncomfortable speeches in the Bhagavatam. In Canto 1, Chapter 13, Sundar Gopal Das and host Bhrigupada Dasa trace the arc of Dhritarashtra's departure from the Pandava household: what Vidura tells him, why Yudhishthira cannot bring himself to ask the question he already knows the answer to, an...

People in this episode

Host: Bhrigupada Dasa

Guest: Sundar Gopal Das

Topics covered

• pilgrimage
• Bhagavatam
• family dynamics
• spiritual guidance
• letting go

Keywords

• Vidura
• Dhritarashtra
• Yudhishthira
• Bhagavatam
• letting go
• spirituality
• family
• pilgrimage

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