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ŚB 11.6.33

Devanagari

अथ तस्यां महोत्पातान् द्वारवत्यां समुत्थितान् ।
विलोक्य भगवानाह यदुवृद्धान् समागतान् ॥ ३३ ॥

Text

atha tasyāṁ mahotpātān
dvāravatyāṁ samutthitān
vilokya bhagavān āha
yadu-vṛddhān samāgatān

Synonyms

atha — thereafter; tasyām — in that city; mahā-utpātān — serious disturbances; dvāravatyām — in Dvārakā; samutthitān — developed; vilokya — observing; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; āha — said; yadu-vṛddhān — to the elder Yadus; samāgatān — assembled.

Translation

Thereafter, the Personality of Godhead observed that tremendous disturbances were taking place in the holy city of Dvārakā. Thus the Lord spoke to the assembled senior members of the Yadu dynasty as follows.

Purport

Muni-vāsa-nivāse kiṁ ghaṭetāriṣṭa-darśanam: there is no possibility of actual disturbances or inauspicious events in holy places inhabited by saintly persons. Thus the so-called disturbances in Dvārakā were directly enacted by the Personality of Godhead for His own auspicious purpose.