Vaishampayana said After Arjuna had done the highly wrathful and energetic Bhimasena, collecting all his patience, said these words to his eldest brother:राजन् विदितधर्मोऽसि न तेऽस्त्यविदितं क्वचित्।

'You are, O king, conversant with all duties. There is nothing unknown to you. We always wish to imitate your conduct, but, alas, we cannot do it.

I had wished not to say anything. Excited, however, by great grief I am compelled to say something. Listen to these words of mine, O king.

Everything has been imperilled by the bewilderment of your faculties, and ourselves are being made disspirited and weak.

How is it that you who are the king of the world, you who are the master of all branches of knowledge, allow your understanding to be clouded, with depression like a coward?

The fair and unfair paths of the world are known to you. Everything belonging either to the future or the present is known to you, O powerfiil one.

When such in the case, O king, I will point out, O king, the reasons in favour of your assuming sovereignty. Listen to me with rapt attention.

There are two sorts of diseases, viz., physical and mental. Each originates from the other. None of them exists independently.

Forsooth, mental diseases originate form physical ones. Likewise physical diseases originate from mental ones. This is the truth.

He who bewails for past physical or mental afflictions, reaps affliction from afflictions and suffers double afflictions.

Cold, heat, and winds,-are the three essentials of the body. Their harmonious existence indicates good heath.

In case of one of the three prevailing over the rest, remedies have been prescribed. Cold is checked by heat, and heat is checked by cold.

Goodness, darkness, and ignorance are the three qualities of the mind. The harmonious existence of these three is the sign of (mental) health.

If one of these reigns supreme over the rest, remedies have been laid down. Grief is checked by joy, and joy is checked by grief.

One, living in the present enjoyment of happiness, wishes to recollect his past miseries. Another, suffering in the present woe, wishes to recollect his past happiness. You, however, were never sorry in grief or glad in happiness. You should not, therefore, use your memory for becoming sad during times of happiness, or glad during times of miseries. It seems that Destiny is omnipotent. Or, if it be your nature, which afflicts you, why do you not then remember the sight you saw before, viz., the scantily-clad Krishna dragged, while in her season, before the assembly?

Why do you not remember our expulsion from the (Kuru) city and our exile (into the forest clad in deer-skins, as also our, living in the great forests?

Why have you forgotten the woes inflicted by Jatasura, the battle with Chitrasena, and the miseries suffered at the hands of the Sindhu king?

Why have you forgotten the princess Draupadi kicked by Kichaka while we were living in concealment?

A dreadful battle, O chastiser of foes, like that which you have fought with Bhishma and Drona is now before you, to be fought, (however) with your mind alone.

Indeed, a battle is now before you in which there is no necessity of arrows, friends, of relatives and kinsmen, but which will have to be fought with your mind only.

If you expire before conquering in this battle, then, assuming another body, you shall have to fight these very enemies again.

Therefore, fight that battle this every day, O foremost of Bharata's race, not caring for your body, and helped by your own acts, conquer the enemy of your mind,

If you cannot win that battle what will be your condition? On the other hand, by acquiring victory in it, O monarch, you shall have attained the great end of life.

Applying your intellect to this, and determining the right and the wrong paths of creatures, follow the course of your forefathers and govern properly your kingdom.

By good luck, O king, the sinful Duryodhana has been killed with all his followers. By good luck, you too, like Draupadi's locks, have regained your normal position.

Celebrate with due rites and enough presents the horse-sacrifice. We are your servants, O son of Pritha, as also the highly energetic Vasudeva.