Text 26]
The Lord in the Heart
103
yamānam —burning into ashes;  saḥ —he;  nirīkṣya —be seeing this;  viśvam —the universe;  niryāti —goes out;  siddheśvara-yuṣṭa-dhiṣṇyam —airplanes used by the great purified souls;  yat —the place;  vai —wherein;  parārdhyam —15,480,000,000,000 solar years;  tat —that;  u —the exalted;  pārameṣṭhyam —Satyaloka, where Brahmā resides.
TRANSLATION
At the time of final devastation of the complete universe [the end of the duration of the life of Brahmā], a flame of fire emanates from the mouth of Ananta [from the bottom]. He sees all the planets of the universe burning into ashes, and thus he leaves for the Satyaloka by airplanes used by the great purified souls. The duration of life in Satyaloka is calculated to 15,400,000,000,000 years.
PURPORT
It is indicated herein that the residents of Maharloka, where the purified living entities or demigods possess a duration of life that is calculated to be 4,300,000,000 solar years, have airships by which they reach the Satyaloka, the topmost planet of the universe. In other words, the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  gives us many clues about other planets far, far away from us which modern planes and spacecraft cannot reach, even by imaginary speeds. The statements of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  are accepted by great  ācāryas  like Śrīdhara Svāmī, Rāmānujācārya, Vallabhācārya, etc. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu specifically accepts  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  as the spotless Vedic authority, and as such no sane man can ignore the statements of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  when it is spoken by the self-realized soul Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who follows the footsteps of his great father Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the compiler of all Vedic literatures. In the creation of the Lord there are many wonderful things which we can see with our own eyes every day and night, but we are unable to reach them equipped by modern materialistic science. We should not, therefore, depend on the fragmentary authority of materialistic science for knowing things beyond the range of scientific purview. For a common man, both modern science and Vedic wisdom are simply to be accepted only because none of the statements, either of modern science or of Vedic literature, can be verified by him. The alternative for a common man is to believe either of them or both of them. The Vedic way of understanding is, however, more authentic because it