Srimad Bhagavatam — Prathama Skandha, Shloka 20
Inauspicious Omens and Arjuna’s Return from Dvārakā
दैवतानि रुदन्तीव स्विद्यन्ति ह्युच्चलन्ति च । इमे जनपदा ग्रामा: पुरोद्यानाकराश्रमा: । भ्रष्टश्रियो निरानन्दा: किमघं दर्शयन्ति न: ॥ २० ॥
daivatāni rudantīva svidyanti hy uccalanti ca ime jana-padā grāmāḥ purodyānākarāśramāḥ bhraṣṭa-śriyo nirānandāḥ kim aghaṁ darśayanti naḥ
মন্দিরে দেবতারা যেন কাঁদছেন, ঘামছেন, আর যেন উঠে চলে যেতে উদ্যত। জনপদ-গ্রাম-পুর, উদ্যান, খনি ও আশ্রম—সবই শ্রীহীন ও আনন্দশূন্য। কী অমঙ্গল আমাদের দিকে ইঙ্গিত করছে কে জানে।
FAQs
In this verse Arjuna observes widespread inauspicious signs—deities seeming to weep and places losing their beauty—indicating a great calamity connected with Krishna’s departure.
Returning and sensing that something is terribly wrong, Arjuna interprets the unnatural omens and the joyless atmosphere as signals of a major loss—soon understood as Lord Krishna’s disappearance.
It teaches attentiveness to spiritual decline: when devotion and divine remembrance fade, life feels joyless—so one should restore spiritual practice and seek Krishna’s shelter.