In plain words
But what is this Hastināpura? Who are these Pāṇḍavas? Who are the Kauravas? What is this Dharmakṣetra? What is Kurukṣetra? When we inquire carefully into the struggles they go through in it, they made this very skeleton into Hastināpura. Hastināpura has nine gates; in the same way this skeleton too has nine gates. Now, the One called the principle of the attributeless, formless Parabrahman stands as the witness. That attributeless, formless Parabrahman wedded what is called Māyā. That is just why they say Parabrahman is māyopādhi. From Māyā and Parabrahman together, a son called the mind was born. This son sets about following only his mother, in many ways, but his father's ways he never grasped in the least. That is, the principles of Māyā alone are dear to him, but the father's qualities, which are purity, never appealed to him in the least. Now, they raised this son called the mind, brought him up and married him off. And it was not one marriage but two they gave him. Of these, the wives who chose this mind were pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti and nivṛtti, the two together, married the mind. But this mind has a fondness for pravṛtti alone, and goes his way looking at nivṛtti as though he did not see her. Then they decided that the children born to this pravṛtti were asuras, and the five born to this nivṛtti were divine in form, devas. These very ones called pravṛtti and nivṛtti became the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas. The five who are nivṛtti's children are Satya, Dharma, Prema, Śānti, Ahiṃsā. Because these five are divine qualities, they are nivṛtti's children; and then, because wickedness, bad qualities, evil thoughts, all of these kinds, are causes of sorrow, they gave them names with the very syllable du: Duryodhana, Duśśāsana, Duśśalā. Now the two came together and, to enjoy the empire of the heart, set about war in this pure place, upon what is called the field of the heart. They called the field of the heart Dharmakṣetra, and, since it is a quality joined with desires for outward things, there they called it Kurukṣetra; in this heart, the Dharmakṣetra that is Kurukṣetra, the good qualities and bad qualities called the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas keep up their fighting there, unceasingly and ever. So, because this mind has a fondness for pravṛtti and for pravṛtti's children, if you ask what kind of fellow this one called the mind is, he is blind, it is said: he himself is Dhṛtarāṣṭra.