VIDURA IN MOOD OF SEPARATION MEETS UDDHAVA

Vidura is on pilgrimage. He has left Hastinapura after taking Duryodhana's vicious verbal abuse and threat of physical harm as an opportunity to travel to holy places and become absorbed in thoughts of Lord Krishna.

On the way he meets Uddhava. Vidura had already been informed about the outcome of the Kuruksetra war but here we see he inquires as if he did not know. 

"Vidura asks Uddhava about the welfare of his relatives, although he already knew that they were no longer in the world. This inquiry appears to be very queer, but Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī states that the news was shocking to Vidura, who therefore inquired again due to great curiosity. Thus his inquiry was psychological and not practical." SB 3.1.25

Vidura then inquires about all the great devotees and associates in the Yadu dynasty asking about their welfare as if nothing has happened and he doesn't know. It is clear that he is lost in remembering their greatness by talking about them in that way. He was in shock at their fate and the destruction of the Kuru dynasty. It is really heart wrenching to hear him. He is in full mood of separation and talking as if mad. As if they were all till present and nothing had happened. 

I see that with people, especially older people, who have lost someone close to them. They will sit and wait for them to come home. Or make a plate of food for them and worry that it is getting cold. Or talk to me about them as if they were in the next room. I have even been invited to go and meet them since they are just in the next room.