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
ದೇವತೆಗಳು ಮಂದಿರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅಳುತ್ತಿರುವಂತೆ, ಬೆವರುತ್ತಿರುವಂತೆ, ಹೊರಟು ಹೋಗಲು ಕದಲುತ್ತಿರುವಂತೆ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಜನಪದ-ಗ್ರಾಮ-ಪುರ, ಉದ್ಯಾನ, ಗಣಿಗಳು, ಆಶ್ರಮಗಳು—ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಶೋಭಾಹೀನ, ಆನಂದರಹಿತ. ನಮಗೆ ಯಾವ ವಿಪತ್ತು ಸೂಚಿಸುತ್ತಿವೆ?
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.