Vyasa’s words filled Yudhishthira with grief and with a great repugnance for worldly ambition and life itself. He informed his brothers of the prediction of unavoidable racial disaster. Life seemed to him a bitter and weary business and his destiny particularly cruel and unbearable. Arjuna said: “You are a king and it is not right for you to be agitated. Let us meet destiny with undaunted front and do our duty.”
