SrI: SrImathE satakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: SrI vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama:
pANdu and vidhura were younger brothers of dhritharAsthra. vidhura was greatly devoted towards krishNa. In our sampradhAyam he is such that great that he is known as vidhurAzhwAn. When krishNa came as pANdava dhUtha to hasthinApuram, he showered special mercy on vidhura. Let us enjoy this.
krishNa took leave from pANdavas and reached dhritharAshtra’s hasthinApuram. After coming here, he went straight to vidhura’s palace. Not expecting krishNa’s arrival, being overwhelmed by devotion and amazement of sarvESvara seeking and arriving at his place, vidhura trembled, not knowing what to do. He invited krishNa and made a seat for him, and subsequently checked it himself. Though the seat was placed by him, due to having connection with dhritharAshtra et al, he thought he could think about harming krishNa unintentionally and hence checked it.
Then, he desired to offer some food to krishNa, he picked up a banana, took out the peel, dropped the fruit and gave the peel to krishNa. krishNa even accepted that joyfully.
After that, krishNa informed the purpose of his arrival and mercifully planted the thoughts of the certainty of the war and vidhura should not participate in that.
Then he went to dhritharAshtra’s royal assembly. Since dhuryOdhana knew krishNa’s arrival, he ordered everyone that no one should rise from their seats when krishNa entered. But, without realising, he stood up when krishNa entered. Seeing that all the people in the assembly stood up. When dhuryOdhana asked them “Why did you all stand up?” they said “Because you stood up, we did” He hung his head down in shame.
Then he angrily asked krishNa “While bhIshma, dhrONA and I are present, why did you go to the lowly vidhura’s place?” krishNa said “We should not eat at enemies’ places and we should also not feed enemies”. dhuryOdhana said “But I am not your enemy”. To that krishNa responded, saying “Since you are inimical towards pANdavas, you have become an enemy to me. That is why instead of coming to your place I went to vidhura who is greatly affectionate towards me”.
In their commentaries, pUrvAchAryas have nicely explained vidhura’s noble qualities while talking about mangaLASAsanam.
Essence in this incident:
- When bhagavAn’s devotees become bewildered due to overwhelming devotion towards him, he enjoys that.
- bhagavAn proved towards vidhura what he said in SrI gIthA that anyone offers anything to him with love, will be accepted by him.
- vidhura is glorified as mangaLASAsanapara (one who wishes well for bhagavAn always) on a par with periyAzhwAr, nammAzhwAr and piLLai uRangA villi dhAsar,
- Seeing vidhura’s greatness, krishNa ordered yudhishtira to perform his final rites in the form of brahmamEdha samskAram which is done for great bhAgavathas.
Source – https://granthams.koyil.org/2023/10/25/krishna-leela-49-tamil/
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