Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.89.51

dvāreṇa cakrānupathena tat tamaḥ

paraḿ paraḿ jyotir ananta-pāram

samaśnuvānaḿ prasamīkṣya phālgunaḥ

pratāḍitākṣo pidadhe 'kṣiṇī ubhe

SYNONYMS

dvāreṇa — by the path; cakra — the Sudarśana disc; anupathena — following; tat — that; tamaḥ — darkness; param — beyond; param — transcendental; jyotiḥ — light; ananta — unlimited; pāram — whose expanse; samaśnuvānam — all-pervasive; prasamīkṣya — beholding; phālgunaḥ — Arjuna; pratāḍita — pained; akṣaḥ — whose eyes; apidadhe — he closed; akṣiṇī — his eyes; ubhe — both.

TRANSLATION

Following the Sudarśana disc, the chariot went beyond the darkness and reached the endless spiritual light of the all pervasive brahma-jyoti. As Arjuna beheld this glaring effulgence, his eyes hurt, and so he shut them.

PURPORT

After breaking through each of the eight concentric shells of the universe, the Sudarśana disc led Lord Kṛṣṇa's chariot into the limitless, self-effulgent atmosphere of the spiritual sky. This journey by Lord Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna to Vaikuṇṭha is also narrated in Śrī Hari-vaḿśa, where the Lord is quoted as telling His companion,

brahma-tejo-mayaḿ divyaḿ

mahat yad dṛṣṭavān asi

ahaḿ sa bharata-śreṣṭha

mat-tejas tat sanātanam

"The divine expanse of Brahman effulgence you have seen is none other than Myself, O best of the Bhāratas. It is My own eternal effulgence."

prakṛtiḥ sā mama parā

vyaktāvyaktā sanātanī

tāḿ praviśya bhavantīha

muktā yoga-vid-uttamāḥ

"It comprises My eternal, spiritual energy, both manifest and unmanifest. The foremost yoga experts of this world enter within it and become liberated."

sā sāńkhyānāḿ gatiḥ pārtha

yogināḿ ca tapasvinām

tat paraḿ paramaḿ brahma

sarvaḿ vibhajate jagat

mamaiva tad ghanaḿ tejo

jñātum arhasi bhārata

"It is the supreme goal of the followers of Sāńkhya, O Pārtha, as well as that of the yogīs and ascetics. It is the Supreme Absolute Truth, manifesting the varieties of the entire created cosmos. You should understand this brahma-jyoti, O Bhārata, to be My concentrated personal effulgence."

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