atha tasyÄá¹ mahotpÄtÄn
dvÄravatyÄá¹ samutthitÄn
vilokya bhagavÄn Äha
yadu-vá¹›ddhÄn samÄgatÄn

 atha - thereafter; tasyÄm - in that city; mahÄ-utpÄtÄn - serious disturbances; dvÄravatyÄm - in DvÄrakÄ; samutthitÄn - developed; vilokya - observing; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Äha - said; yadu-vá¹›ddhÄn - to the elder Yadus; samÄgatÄn - assembled.


Text

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

Purport

Muni-vÄsa-nivÄse kiá¹ ghaá¹­etÄriṣṭa-darÅ›anam: there is no possibility of actual disturbances or inauspicious events in holy places inhabited by saintly persons. Thus the so-called disturbances in DvÄrakÄ were directly enacted by the Personality of Godhead for His own auspicious purpose.