My dear Arjuna, I wonder if your health is alright, for you appear to have lost your bodily luster? Is this due to your having been neglected and disrespected by others for having stayed so long at Dvaraka? Has someone addressed you harshly or threatened you? Did you fail to keep a promise or were you unable to give in charity to a deserving person? Could you not give protection to brahmanas, children, cows, women or diseased persons that had approached you for shelter? Have you contacted a woman of low character on one who was inferior to you? Have you taken your meal alone without providing for old men and boys that deserved to dine with you? Have you committed some other abominable act? Or, is it that you are feeling empty due to having lost your most intimate friend Krishna? My dear Arjuna, I can think of no other reason for your having become so utterly dejected."
Yudhishthira Maharaja - Canto 1
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