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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
TEXT 33
‘সিদ্ধলোক’ নাম তার প্রকৃতির পার । চিৎস্বরূপ, তাঁহা নাহি চিচ্ছস্তি-বিকার ॥ ৩৩ ॥
‘siddha-loka’ nāma tāra prakṛtira pāra cit-svarūpa, tāṅhā nāhi cic-chakti-vikāra
SYNONYMS
‘siddha-loka’—the region of the Siddhas; nāma—named; tāra—of the effulgent atmosphere; prakṛtira pāra—beyond this material nature; cit-svarūpa—full of knowledge; tāṅhā—there; nāhi—there is not; cit-śakti-vikāra—change of the spiritual energy.
TRANSLATION
That region is called Siddhaloka, and it is beyond material nature. Its essence is spiritual, but it does not have spiritual varieties.
TEXT 34
সূর্যমণ্ডল যেন বাহিরে নির্বিশেষ । ভিতরে সূর্যের রথ-আদি সবিশেষ ॥ ৩৪ ॥
sūrya-maṇḍala yena bāhire nirviśeṣa bhitare sūryera ratha-ādi saviśeṣa
SYNONYMS
sūrya-maṇḍala—the sun globe; yena—like; bāhire—externally; nirviśeṣa—without varieties; bhitare—within; sūryera—of the sun-god; ratha-ādi—opulences like chariots and other things; sa-viśeṣa—full of varieties.
TRANSLATION
It is like the homogeneous effulgence around the sun. But inside the sun are the chariots, horses and other opulences of the sun-god.
PURPORT
Outside of Vaikuṇṭha, the abode of Kṛṣṇa, which is called  paravyoma , is the glaring effulgence of Kṛṣṇa’s bodily rays. This is called the  brahmajyoti . The transcendental region of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When impersonalists achieve liberation, they merge in that Brahmaloka effulgence. This transcendental region is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to the glow of the sun. Within the sun’s glow is the sphere of the sun, where one can experience all sorts of varieties.