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The inhabitants of Visnuloka are of the same bodily feature as Lord Visnu, and they also hold club, conchshell, lotus flower and disc. In this verse it is distinctly stated that they had four hands and were nicely dressed; the description of their bodily decorations corresponds exactly to that of Visnu. So the two uncommon personalities who descended from the airplane came directly from Visnuloka, or the planet where Lord Visnu lives. (More...) There are, in the spiritual world, there are Vaikunthalokas. There are inhabitants, the devotees. They're all liberated persons. They're aksara. They do not fall down. Ksara aksara. We are ksaras. We have fallen down in this material world. But there are devotees in the spiritual world, in the Vaikunthaloka, they never come down. Never come down in this material world, but they are also persons like us, but eternal persons, with full knowledge and life of blissfulness. That is the difference between them and us. (More...) So that is the atheist class realization of God. And theist class, they believe in God. They worship in God while living, and their business is: in this life they are serving God, Krsna, and even after death, they will do the same business. Nitya-yukta upasate. So there is no difference between going to Vaikuntha and in this temple, for a devotee, because the business is the same. So why they should aspire even going to Vaikuntha? Why they aspire? Therefore it is said... What is said? Sriyam bhagavatim vasprhayanti. Because Vaikuntha, if you go to the spiritual world or Vaikuntha, you get equal opulence like Krsna or Narayana. Sayujya, sarupya, sarsti [Cc. Madhya 6.266]. There are five kinds of mukti. So one of the mukti is sarsti. Sarsti means equally opulent with the Supreme Lord, equally. In the Vaikuntha the devotees or the inhabitants, they are equally opulent. Everyone is like Narayana, four-handed, equally opulent. Just like in Vrndavana also, Goloka Vrndavana. Krsna and the cowherds boy, they are equally opulent. The cowherds boys in Vrndavana, they do not know that Krsna is God, Krsna is greater than him. No. They think, "As Krsna is, I am also." They are so opulent. (More...) Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/?g=3706 Previous: [none] Next: [none]
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