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| Ādi-līlā | Chapter 17: The Pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in His Youth |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 17.105
gani' dhyāne dekhe sarva-jña, — mahā-jyotirmaya
ananta vaikuntha-brahmānda — sabāra āśraya
SYNONYMS
gani' — by calculation; dhyāne — by meditation; dekhe — sees; sarva-jña — knower of everything; mahā-jyotir-maya — highly effulgent body; ananta — unlimited; vaikuntha — spiritual world; brahmānda — planets; sabāra — of all of them; āśraya — shelter.
TRANSLATION
Through calculation and meditation, the all-knowing astrologer saw the greatly effulgent body of the Lord, which is the resting place of all the unlimited Vaikuntha planets.
PURPORT
Here we get some information of the Vaikuntha world, or spiritual world. Vaikuntha means "without anxiety." In the material world, everyone is full of anxiety, but another world, where there is no anxiety, is described in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.20):
paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanah
yah sa sarveshu bhūteshu naśyatsu na vinaśyati
"Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is."
As there are many planets within the material world, there are many millions of planets, called Vaikunthalokas, in the spiritual world. All these Vaikunthalokas, or superior planets, rest on the effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in the Brahma-samhitā (yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-anda-koti- [Bs. 5.40]), the Brahman effulgence emanating from the body of the Supreme Lord creates innumerable planets in both the spiritual and material worlds; thus these planets are creations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The astrologer saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to be the very same Personality of Godhead. We can just imagine how learned he was, yet he was traveling door to door, just like an ordinary beggar, for the highest benefit of human society.
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