480
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 9]
their celestial complexions, and all these combined together appear just like the sky decorated with both clouds and lightning.
PURPORT
It appears that in the Vaikuṇṭha planets there are airplanes also brilliantly glowing, and they are occupied by the great devotees of the Lord with ladies of celestial beauty as brilliant as lightning. As there are airplanes, so there must be different types of carriages also like the airplanes, but they may not be driven machines, as we have experience in this world. Because everything is of the same nature of eternity, bliss and knowledge, the airplanes and carriages are of the same quality as Brahman. As there is nothing except Brahman, so it should not be misconceived that there is only void and no variegatedness. To think like that is due to a poor fund of knowledge, otherwise no one would have such a misconception of voidness in the Brahman. As there are airplanes, ladies, and gentlemen, so there must be cities and houses and everything else just suitable to the particular planets. One should not carry the ideas of imperfection from this world to the transcendental world without taking into consideration the nature of the atmosphere, as completely free from the influence of time, etc., as described previously.
TEXT 14
श्रीर्यत्र रूपिण्युरुगायपादयोः 
  करोति मानं बहुधा विभूतिभिः । 
  प्रेङ्खं श्रिता या कुसुमाकरानुगै- 
  विंगीयमाना प्रियकर्म गायती ॥१४॥
śrīr yatra rūpiṇy urugāya-pādayoḥ 
  karoti mānam bahudhā vibhūtibhiḥ 
  preṅkham śritā yā kusumākarānugair 
  vigīyamānā priya-karma gāyatī
śrīḥ—the goddess of fortune; yatra—in the Vaikuṇṭha planets; rūpiṇī—in her transcendental form; urugāya—the Lord, who is sung of by the great devotees; pādayoḥ—under the lotus feet of the Lord; karoti—does; mānam