Dhritarashthra Quits Home
Narada said to Yudhishthhira:
(52) The place is known as Saptasrota ['seven sources'] because the river of heaven [the Svardhuni, the Ganges] sprouts there, and to the satisfaction of the seven different sages, divides herself into the seven currents we know as her branches.
(53) By bathing regularly there, sacrificing in the fire according to the regulative principles, and fasting on drinking water only, Dhritarashthra has completely subdued his mind and senses, and is thus freed from begging for food [in his family dependence].
(54) With the help of sitting postures, breath control, and turning one's mind inward away from the six senses, one can, absorbed in the Lord, conquer the contaminations of passion, goodness and ignorance.
(55) By allowing his self to merge with the wisdom, and the wisdom to merge with the pure witnessing, he has united himself with the Absolute [brahman], the foundation of pure existence, the same way the air within a pot merges with the space outside of it.
(56) When he, no longer hindered in renouncing all his duties, sits down concentrated without moving a limb, his senses and mind because of his breaking with the effects of the operating modes of nature, will no longer be fed, and come to a full stop.
(57) I expect that he will quit his body five days from now, oh King, and it will turn into ashes.
(58) While she outside observes the body of her husband catching fire along with his cottage, his chaste wife in full awareness will follow him in the blaze.
(59) Vidura, witnessing that wonderful incident, oh son of the Kuru dynasty, will, with mixed feelings of delight and grief, then leave that place for the sake of visiting holy places.
(60) After Narada thus had addressed the king he, together with his stringed instrument, rose up into heaven. Yudhishthhira, taking his instructions to heart, thereupon gave up all his lamentation.
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