Section XLI Sanatsujata Parva
"Dhritarashtra said,
'If there is anything still left unsaid by you, O Vidura, say it then, as I am ready to listen to you. The discourse is, indeed, charming.'
"Vidura said,
'O Dhritarashtra, O you of the Bharata race, that ancient and immortal Rishi Sanat-sujata who, leading a life perpetual celibacy, has said that there is no Death,—that foremost of all intelligent persons,—will expound to you all the doubts, in your mind, both expressed and unexpressed.'
"Dhritarashtra said,
'Dost you not know what that immortal Rishi will say unto me? O Vidura, do you say it, if indeed, you have that degree of wisdom.'
"Vidura said,
'I am born in the Sudra order and, therefore, do not venture to say more than what I have already said. The understanding, however, of that Rishi leading a life of celibacy, is regarded by me to be infinite. He that is a Brahmana by birth, by discoursing on even the profoundest mysteries, never incurs the censure of the gods. It is for this alone that I do not discourse to you, upon the subject.'
"Dhritarashtra said,
'Tell me, O Vidura, how with this body of mine I can meet with that ancient and immortal one?'
"Vaisampayana said, 'Then Vidura began to think of that Rishi of rigid vows. And knowing that he was thought of, the Rishi, O Bharata, showed himself there. Vidura then received him with the rites prescribed by ordinance.
And when, having rested a while, the Rishi was seated at his ease, Vidura addressed him, saying,
'O illustrious one, there is a doubt in Dhritarashtra’s mind which is incapable of being explained away by me. It behoves you, therefore, to expound it, so that listening to your discourse, this chief of men may tide over all this sorrows, and to that gain and loss, what is agreeable and what disagreeable, decrepitude and death, fright and jealously, hunger and thirst, pride and prosperity, dislike, sleep, lust and wrath, and decrease and increase may all be borne by him!'"
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