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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.1.6
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 6
- śrī-śuka uvāca
- yadā tu rājā sva-sutān asādhūn
- puṣṇan na dharmeṇa vinaṣṭa-dṛṣṭiḥ
- bhrātur yaviṣṭhasya sutān vibandhūn
- praveśya lākṣā-bhavane dadāha
śrīŚrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said-śukaḥŚrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said uvācaŚrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; yadāwhen — when; tubut — but; rājāKing Dhṛtarāṣṭra — King Dhṛtarāṣṭra; svahis own sons-sutānhis own sons — his own sons; asādhūndishonest — dishonest; puṣṇannourishing — nourishing; nanever — never; dharmeṇaon the right path — on the right path; vinaṣṭaone who has lost his insight-dṛṣṭiḥone who has lost his insight — one who has lost his insight; bhrātuḥof his brother — of his brother; yaviṣṭhasyayounger — younger; sutānsons — sons; vibandhūnhaving no guardian (father) — having no guardian (father); praveśyamade to enter — made to enter; lākṣālacquer — lacquer; bhavanein the house — in the house; dadāhaset on fire — set on fire.
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: King Dhṛtarāṣṭra became blind under the influence of impious desires to nourish his dishonest sons, and thus he set fire to the lacquer house to burn his fatherless nephews, the Pāṇḍavas.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind from birth, but his blindness in committing impious activities to support his dishonest sons was a greater blindness than his physical lack of eyesight. The physical lack of sight does not bar one from spiritual progress. But when one is blind spiritually, even though physically fit, that blindness is dangerously detrimental to the progressive path of human life.