SB 5.22.17

TEXT 17

TEXT

तत उत्तरस्मादृषय एकादशलक्षयोजनान्तर उपलभ्यन्ते य एव लोकानां शमनुभावयन्तो भगवतो विष्णोर्यत्परमं पदं प्रदक्षिणं प्रक्रमन्ति. ॥ १७ ॥

tata uttarasmad rsaya ekadasa-laksa-yojanantara upalabhyante ya eva
lokanam sam anubhavayanto bhagavato visnor yat paramam padam
pradaksinam prakramanti.

tatah-the planet Saturn; uttarasmat-above; rsayah-great saintly sages; ekadasa-laksa-yojana-antare-at a distance of 1,100,000 yojanas; upalabhyante-are situated; ye-all of them; eva-indeed; lokanam-for all the inhabitants of the universe; sam-the good fortune; anubhavayantah-always thinking of; bhagavatah-of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; visnoh-Lord Visnu; yat-which; paramam padam-the supreme abode; pradaksinam-placing on the right; prakramanti-circumambulate.

TRANSLATION

Situated 8,800,000 miles above Saturn, or 20,800,000 miles above earth, are the seven saintly sages, who are always thinking of the well-being of the inhabitants of the universe. They circumambulate the supreme abode of Lord Visnu, known as Dhruvaloka, the polestar.

PURPORT

Srila Madhvacarya quotes the following verse from the Brahmanda Purana:

jnananandatmano visnuh
sisumara-vapusy atha
urdhva-lokesu sa vyapta
adityadyas tad-asrita

Lord Visnu, who is the source of knowledge and transcendental bliss, has assumed the form of Sisumara in the seventh heaven, which is situated in the topmost level of the universe. All the other planets, beginning with the sun, exist under the shelter of this Sisumara planetary system.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-second Chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "The Orbits of the Planets."