But there is another planetary system. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, na tad bhasayate suryo na sasanko na pavakah [Bg. 15.6]. There is another..., paras tasmat tu bhavah anyah [Bg. 8.20], another nature where, yatra, na tad bhasayate suryah, there is no need of sunshine, there is no need of moonshine. Because the each planet is svayam-jyoti. Here we have got one planet, the sun planet, jyoti. But there, in the Vaikuntha, all the planets, Vaikuntha planets... Vaikuntha means vigata-kuntha. Kuntha means anxiety. Here, in this planet, you are full of anxiety. And if you are transferred to the Vaikunthaloka, there is no anxiety. Anandamayo 'bhyasat: (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12) simply ananda, no anxiety. Here you must suffer anxiety, asad-grahat, on account of accepting this asat. Asat means untruth or temporary, which will not exist. Tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat [SB 7.5.5]. This is Prahlada Maharaja's instruction, that this materialistic individuality, on account of accepting this asad-grahat, asat, not permanent, not true, sada samudvigna-dhiyam. Always full of anxiety. So in the material world you are trying to be free of anxiety. That is not possible. That is not... Therefore it is required, atma-darsanam. Jnanam atma-darsanam. Jnanam nihsreyasarthaya purusasya atma-darsanam. First of all you know what is your position. Just like when one man is diseased. The physician first of all diagnose that what is the disease; then he gives medicine. Similarly, first of all you ascertain what is your constitutional position. You try to understand. That is the beginning everywhere. That is Vedic literature.   (More...)