tan nirÄ«ká¹£yoddhavo rÄjan
Å›rutvÄ bhagavatoditam
dṛṣá¹vÄriá¹£á¹Äni ghorÄṇi
nityaṠkṛṣṇam anuvrataḥ
vivikta upasaá¹…gamya
jagatÄm Ä«Å›vareÅ›varam
praṇamya Å›irisÄ pÄdau
prÄñjalis tam abhÄá¹£ata
tat - that; nirÄ«ká¹£ya - seeing; uddhavaḥ - Uddhava; rÄjan - O King; Å›rutvÄ - hearing; bhagavatÄ - by the Lord; uditam - what had been said; dṛṣá¹vÄ - observing; ariá¹£á¹Äni - evil omens; ghorÄṇi - fearful; nityam - always; kṛṣṇam - of Lord Kṛṣṇa; anuvrataḥ - a faithful follower; vivikte - in privacy; upasaá¹…gamya - approaching; jagatÄm - of all the moving creatures within the universe; Ä«Å›vara - of the controllers; Ä«Å›varam - the one supreme controller; praṇamya - bowing down; Å›irasÄ - with his head; pÄdau - at His feet; prÄñjaliḥ - with hands folded in submission; tam - to Him; abhÄá¹£ata - spoke.
My dear King, Uddhava was a constantly faithful follower of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Upon seeing the imminent departure of the YÄdavas, hearing from them of the Lord’s instructions and taking note of the fearful omens, he approached the Personality of Godhead in a private place. He bowed down with his head at the lotus feet of the supreme controller of the universe and with folded hands addressed Him as follows.
According to ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« there cannot be any actual disturbance in the Lord’s own abode. The great disasters apparently occurring in DvÄrakÄ were an external show created by the Lord to facilitate His pastimes. We can understand the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa only by hearing from the recognized ÄcÄryas. Lord Kṛṣṇa is not a mundane historical figure, and His activities cannot be confined within the tiny limits of material logic. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes are an exhibition of His acintya-Å›akti, or inconceivable potency, which functions according to higher, spiritual laws, unknown to the blind conditioned souls and their petty material logic.
