Texts 35-36]
Disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa
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maṅgalāya ca lokānām  
 kṣemāya ca bhavāya ca  
 āste yadu-kulāmbhodhāv  
 ādyo 'nanta-sakhaḥ pumān  
 yad bāhu-daṇḍa-guptāyām  
 sva-puryām yadavo 'rcitāḥ  
 krīḍanti paramānandam  
 mahā-pauruṣikā iva
maṅgalāya —for all good;  ca —also;  lokānām —of all the planets;  kṣemāya —for protection;  ca —and;  bhavāya —for elevation;  ca —also;  āste —is there;  yadu-kula-ambhodhau —in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty;  ādyaḥ —the original;  ananta-sakhaḥ —in the company of Ananta (Balarāma);  pumān —the supreme enjoyer;  yat —whose;  bāhu-daṇḍa guptāyām —being protected by His arms;  sva-puryām —in His own city;  yadavaḥ —the members of the Yadu family;  arcitāḥ —as they deserve;  krīḍanti —are relishing;  paramānandam —transcendental pleasure;  mahā-pauruṣikāḥ —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 Viṣṇu resides within each and every universe in two capacities, namely as the Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and the Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. The Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu 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 Yudhiṣṭhira has compared the Yadu dynasty to the ocean of milk and Śrī Balarāma to the Ananta where Lord Kṛṣṇa resides. He has compared the citizens of Dvārakā to the liberated inhabitants of the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. 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