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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
pīnāhi-bhogotthitam adbhutaṁ mahaj jyotiḥ sva-dhāmnā jvalayad diśo daśa pratīkṣya khe 'vasthitam īśa-nirgamaṁ viveśa tasmin miṣatāṁ divaukasām
pīna—very great; ahi-bhoga-utthitam—issuing from the serpent's body, which was meant for material enjoyment; adbhutam—very wonderful; mahat—great; jyotiḥ—effulgence; sva-dhāmnā—by his own illumination; jvalayat—making glaring; diśaḥ daśa—all the ten directions; pratīkṣya—waiting; khe—in the sky; avasthitam—individually staying; īśa-nirgamam—until the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, came out; viveśa—entered; tasmin—in the body of Kṛṣṇa; miṣatām—while observing; divaukasām—all the demigods.
TRANSLATION
From the body of the gigantic python, a glaring effulgence came out, illuminating all directions, and stayed individually in the sky until Kṛṣṇa came out from the corpse's mouth. Then, as all the demigods looked on, this effulgence entered into Kṛṣṇa's body.
PURPORT
Apparently the serpent named Aghāsura, because of having received association with Kṛṣṇa, attained  mukti  by entering Kṛṣṇa's body. Entering the body of Kṛṣṇa is called  sāyujya-mukti , but later verses prove that Aghāsura, like Dantavakra and others, received  sārūpya-mukti . This has been broadly described by Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura with references from the  Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī  of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī. Aghāsura attained  sārūpya-mukti , being promoted to the Vaikuṇṭha planets to live with the same four-armed bodily features as Viṣṇu. The explanation of how this is so may be summarized as follows.
The effulgence came out from the python's body and became purified, attaining spiritual  śuddha-sattva , freedom from material contamination, because Kṛṣṇa had stayed within the serpent's body, even after the serpent's death. One may doubt that such a demon, full of mischievous activities, could attain the liberation of  sārūpya  or  sāyujya , and one may be astonished about this. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind that in order to drive away such doubts, He had the effulgence, the individual life of the python.