॥॥ ॥॥ ॥॥ ॥॥
In plain words
… our sorrows are according to karma. Because the wicked and evil, morality …, tormented the Pāṇḍavas, the very embodiments of Dharma, the line of the Kauravas was as good as wiped out. It was utterly destroyed. Because God was on the Pāṇḍavas' side, the Pāṇḍavas won victory on every side. Though Arjuna … in many ways to hold it back, that was refuted, and because he took Kṛṣṇa's word upon his head, Arjuna was able to win the victory. Until their war was fought, the Pāṇḍavas took Kṛṣṇa's command upon their heads. Now that they have won the war, they speak against Kṛṣṇa's words. That this was not right morality, not right conduct, not the dharma the Pāṇḍavas should hold to: this is what Bhīṣma goes on teaching Dharmaja.
Is it in your power to cross karma, O man? Is it in your power to cross karma? Does not the rich man turn beggar in a moment? Does not the learned man turn beast in no time? Can a stick not turn snake and bite? Karma is the cause, karma is the root. (Is it in your power…) Dip it in a little pond or dip it in all the oceans there are, the water is only as much as the pot; however much you want, more will not come. (Is it in your power…) Though you read the weighty texts, though you worship the family gods, though you go off to the deep forests, though you do the hardest tapas, (Is it in your power…) though you show all the strength of your arms, though you preen yourself a hero, becoming a rope through your nose, it drags you on: … it is karma! (Is it in your power…)
So there is no telling in what form this karma will pursue us. “I am a cow; I have hard horns. I am very strong!” When she preens herself on that, karma comes upon her like the rope through the nose. So whatever sorrows come to us at whatever time, we have to live through every one of them according to our karma. They are fruits that follow karma. But if we win God's grace for such karmas, these karmas cannot hurt us at all.
Once, Yaśodā too grieved. “Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Himself has come as the Kṛṣṇa Avatāra, and from His birth, in this form of a child, He cannot escape the torments of demons of every kind!” Akrūra came and took them to Mathurā. Yaśodā heard the news that in the streets of that city wrestlers were chasing Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa, who were running through the bazaars. Yaśodā heard the news that, to catch Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa, to throw them under their feet and trample them, Kaṃsa had even set maddened elephants loose on Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa.