Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.14.35-36

mańgalāya ca lokānām

kshemāya ca bhavāya ca

āste yadu-kulāmbhodhāv

ādyo 'nanta-sakhah pumān

yad bāhu-danda-guptāyām

sva-puryām yadavo 'rcitāh

krīdanti paramānandam

mahā-paurushikā iva

SYNONYMS

mańgalāya — for all good; ca — also; lokānām — of all the planets; kshemāya — for protection; ca — and; bhavāya — for elevation; ca — also; āste — is there; yadu-kula-ambhodhau — in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty; ādyah — the original; ananta-sakhah — in the company of Ananta (Balarāma); pumān — the supreme enjoyer; yat — whose; bāhu-danda-guptāyām — being protected by His arms; sva-puryām — in His own city; yadavah — the members of the Yadu family; arcitāh — as they deserve; krīdanti — are relishing; parama-ānandam — transcendental pleasure; mahā-paurushikāh — the residents of the spiritual sky; iva — like.

TRANSLATION

The original Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer, and Balarāma, the primeval Lord Ananta, are staying in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty for the welfare, protection and general progress of the entire universe. And the members of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of the Lord, are enjoying life like the residents of the spiritual sky.

PURPORT

As we have discussed many times, the Personality of Godhead Vishnu resides within each and every universe in two capacities, namely as the Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu and the Kshīrodakaśāyī Vishnu. The Kshīrodakaśāyī Vishnu has His own planet on the northern top of the universe, and there is a great ocean of milk where the Lord resides on the bed of the Ananta incarnation of Baladeva. Thus Mahārāja Yudhishthira has compared the Yadu dynasty to the ocean of milk and Śrī Balarāma to the Ananta where Lord Krishna resides. He has compared the citizens of Dvārakā to the liberated inhabitants of the Vaikunthalokas. Beyond the material sky, further than we can see with our eyes and beyond the sevenfold coverings of the universe, there is the Causal Ocean in which all the universes are floating like footballs, and beyond the Causal Ocean there is an unlimited span of spiritual sky generally known as the effulgence of Brahman. Within this effulgence there are innumerable spiritual planets, and they are known as the Vaikuntha planets. Each and every Vaikuntha planet is many, many times bigger than the biggest universe within the material world, and in each of them there are innumerable inhabitants who look exactly like Lord Vishnu. These inhabitants are known as the Mahā-paurushikas, or persons directly engaged in the service of the Lord. They are happy in those planets and are without any kind of misery, and they live perpetually in full youthfulness, enjoying life in full bliss and knowledge without fear of birth, death, old age or disease, and without the influence of kāla, eternal time. Mahārāja Yudhishthira has compared the inhabitants of Dvārakā to the Mahā-paurushikas of Vaikunthaloka because they are so happy with the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā there are many references to the Vaikunthalokas, and they are mentioned there as mad-dhāma, or the kingdom of the Lord.

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