दुर्योधन उवाच
परेषाम् एव यशसा श्लाघसे त्वं; सदा छन्नः कुत्सयन् धार्तराष्ट्रान् ॥
जानीमस् त्वां विदुर यत्प्रियस् त्वं; बालान् इवास्मान् अवमन्यसे त्वम् ॥
सुविज्ञेयः पुरुषो ऽन्यत्रकामो; निन्दाप्रशंसे हि तथा युनक्ति ॥
जिह्वा मनस् ते हृदयं निर्व्यनक्ति; ज्यायो निराह मनसः प्रातिकूल्यम् ॥
उत्सङ्गेन व्याल इवाहृतो ऽसि; मार्जारवत् पोषकं चोपहंसि ॥
भर्तृघ्नत्वान् न हि पापीय आहुस्; तस्मात् क्षत्तः किं न बिभेषि पापात् ॥
duryodhana uvāca
pareṣām eva yaśasā ślāghase tvaṃ; sadā channaḥ kutsayan dhārtarāṣṭrān ||
jānīmas tvāṃ vidura yatpriyas tvaṃ; bālān ivāsmān avamanyase tvam ||
suvijñeyaḥ puruṣo 'nyatrakāmo; nindāpraśaṃse hi tathā yunakti ||
jihvā manas te hṛdayaṃ nirvyanakti; jyāyo nirāha manasaḥ prātikūlyam ||
utsaṅgena vyāla ivāhṛto 'si; mārjāravat poṣakaṃ copahaṃsi ||
bhartṛghnatvān na hi pāpīya āhus; tasmāt kṣattaḥ kiṃ na bibheṣi pāpāt ||
[Duryodhana:] "You boast only in another's glory, always secretly reviling the Dhartarashtras; we know, Vidura, whose favorite you are; you despise us as if we were children. A man partial to another is easily recognized: he applies blame and praise unevenly; your tongue, mind, and heart betray you, and still more the contrariness of your mind. You are like a serpent nurtured in one's lap, and like a cat, you destroy your own feeder; yet they say there is no sin worse than betraying one's master — why then, Kshattri, do you not fear that sin?"
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Duryodhana repays truth with abuse, calling a faithful counselor a serpent and an ungrateful cat. It is telling that he hurls the charge of betrayal at the one man who remains loyal: projection is the standing weapon of the wrongdoer, who ascribes his own vice to others. The verse teaches how often the one rebuked blames the rebuker for the very fault he himself bears: Duryodhana, who is destroying his own family, calls Vidura — his rescuer — a traitor. And "the slaying of one's master" is a sin borne not by the counselor but by the one who rejects the saving word. Whoever answers truth with abuse testifies against himself; rage at the physician is the surest sign that the patient is beyond cure.