chaturdasha adhyaaya.................
Suta said:
"Arjuna with the permission of his elder brother Yudhisthira went to the city of Dwarika to see his friends and Krishna, and to know the plans of the supreme Godhead. After a few months, when Arjuna did not return from there, Yudhishthhira observed various fearful signs in his ambience. He saw a fearful reversal of the direction of eternal time, observed seasonal irregularities and saw that the people in their human sins turned to anger, greed, lust and falsehood in emboldening their means of livelihood. There was cheating in ordinary transactions, deception mixed in the regard of well-wishers, fathers, mothers and brothers and also between man and wife there was quarrel. As the king saw how in the course of time the people were acquiring irreverent habits, he was taken aback. The king addressing his younger brother Bhimasena said………………
Arjuna went to Dwarika to now the news of Srikrishna and wanted to know his future plans.... Seven months has been elapsed, our brother Arjuna didn't come. o Bhima, my mind is becoming crazy and dubious, why that is happening. Is it so, as Narada instructed, that the Supreme Personality has decided it is time to leave this manifest world? From Him we have our wealth, kingdom and wives - through Him the existence of the dynasty and the life of our subjects has become possible and by His mercy we could defeat our enemies and live for a better world. Just look, o man with the strength of a tiger, at the position of the planets, how things are faring on earth and what is happening to the body and the mind; all these dreadful signs deceiving our intelligence, indicate a great danger in the near future.
Arjuna went to Dwarika to know the news of Srikrishna and wanted to know his future plans....Yuddhistira continues, seven months has been elapsed, our brother Arjuna didn't come. O Bhima, my mind is becoming crazy and dubious, why that is happening. Narada was telling, that the Supreme Personality has decided to leave this manifest world. Could this be the reason of all the feral symbols.... From Him we have our wealth, kingdom and wives - through Him the existence of the dynasty and the life of our subjects has become possible and by His mercy we could defeat our enemies and live for a better world. His well being is alone my well being....Just look, O Brukodara, how earth, sky and our minds are getting awful message.....; all these dreadful signs deceiving our intelligence, indicate a great danger in the near future.
Again and again my thighs, eyes, arms and the left of my body are quivering and I have heart palpitations due to the fear I have. This is all indicative of undesirable happenings. See, o Bhima, how the jackal frantically cries at sunrise and how the dog barks at me without any fear. Cows keep me to their left and asses and such are turning around me while my horses seem to weep. The pigeon appears like a messenger of death and the shrieks of the owls and their rivals the crows make my heart tremble as if they wish the void of the cosmos. O Bhima, see how smoke circles in the sky and how the earth is throbbing along with the hills and mountains with loud thunderbolts out of the blue of a cloudless sky. The wind blows sharply creating darkness with the dust and rain pours like blood from the clouds as an ubiquitous disaster.
The sun is shining less - see how the stars in the sky seem to clash into one another and how the living beings are confused and agitated as if they are crying. Rivers and their tributaries are all disquieted like sea while with the help of butter the fire doesn't ignite - what is this extraordinary time? What is going to happen? The calves don't suck milk and the cows don't want to be milked looking afraid as if weeping, while the bulls don't take pleasure in the pasture ground. The deities seem to be crying and perspiring as if they want to leave the temple and also the cities, villages, towns, gardens, mines and hermitages have lost their beauty, bereft of all happiness - what sort of calamities will befall us? I think that all these great upsurges manifest out of the need for the marks of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality....
Suta said........
Telling thus to his brother Bhimasena, King Yudhisthira found Arjuna rushing towards him. While he bowed at the feet of the king, tears fell from the lotus eyes of his downward looking face. Seeing the anxious heart and pale appearance of Arjuna, questioned the king, (remembering what Narada had said him). Yudhishthhira said: 'Are our relatives Madhu, Bhoja, Dasasarha, Arha, Satvata, and Andhaka of the Yadus all happy passing their days in Dwarika? Is my respectable (maternal) grandfather Surasena in good health passing his last days and are my (maternal) uncle Vasudeva and his younger brothers all well? Are my aunts - his wives - all seven sisters headed by Devaki in person, with their sons and daughters-in-law all happy?
Are King Ugrasena, whose son was the mischievous one (Kamsa) and his younger brother, Hridika and his son Kritavarma and Akrura, Jayanta, Gada, Sarana as well as Satrujit and the rest all happy? Is also the Supreme Personality Balarama, who is the protector of the devotees, all right? Are the great warrior Pradyumna (a son of Krishna) and all others of the Vrishni family happy - and is the plenary expansion of Krishna Aniruddha (a grandson of Krishna) faring well? And how are Sushena, Carudeshna and Samba, the son of Jambavati, and the other eminent sons of Krishna as also their very best sons doing? Are likewise the constant companions of Krishna like S'rutadeva, Uddhava and others, Sunanda, Nanda and other leaders doing well, and are the other liberated souls as well in order who are the best of men? And are all who are bound in friendship under the protection of Balarama and Krishna also remembering our well-being?
Does the Supreme Lord, who is all merciful and who always cares for his devoted and the brahmins (the ones versed in sacred knowledge), enjoy the pious assembly of His friends around Him in Dwarika? For the protection and elevation of the good of all and all their worlds is there in their company, in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty, the Original, Supreme Enjoyer and Ananta (Balarama). In His own city are the members of the Yadu family, as they deserve it, under the protection of His arms, relishing the transcendental pleasure like the residents of heaven. By most importantly managing the comforts at the feet, made the sixteen thousand companions of the fair sex who are headed by Sathyabhama, the Lord subdue the denizens of heaven, so that they, as the wives of the Controller of the thunderbolt, could enjoy what is normally the privilege of the demigods. The Yadus, enjoying the protection of His arms, always fearlessly enter the Sudharma assembly hall which, procured by force (from Indra).
hey bhraata suna mahaa bhuja......................... tu mote dishu hatabirjya...
labhilaa bastu kene galaa............................. tote abangyaan kehu kalaa?
chira prabaase duhkha chintaa.................... tenu badana malinataa.....
kebaa bharschanaa amangale....................... tote shampilaa baakyabale
arthi praani nku debaa kalu.........................maagante ki abaa ndelu..?
bruddha braahmana, nirimaakhi..................... stiri baalaka goru duhkhi
roga padante je rodanti............................... je abaa sharana pashanti
ehaanku dayaa baa nakalu.............................tenu tu ashubha dishilu
atithi bhrutya garbhanaari............................k
ki baa to jibana thaakura............................... Gobinda hoile antara
taahaara shunye shunya tuhi..........................emanta praaya mun manai.......
My dear brother, you seem to be powerless. It appears to me that you have lost your luster. Is it because of missing the respect being neglected or, my brother, because you were away so long? Have you lost your grip because you were addressed unfriendly or have been threatened, or couldn't you give in charity or keep to the hope of doing so? Couldn't you, being approached for the protection of the learned ones, the children, the cows, the old aged, the diseased and the women, give shelter to any living being deserving your care? Did you contact a reprehensible woman or have you improperly treated an acceptable woman maybe, or has your good self on the road been defeated after all by a superior power or by equals? Have you disregarded old men or boys deserving to dine with you together or did you do something abominable which is hard to forgive? Or is it that to the most dear one, my brother Arjuna, your heart's friend Lord Krishna, you feel a void missing Him all the time? I can think of no other reason why you should suffer such a mental distress'......
end of chaturdasha adhyaaya..................
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