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Description of the Kingdom of God
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living creature must be full of cares and anxieties because in the material planets one cannot live eternally. The living entities, however, are actually eternal. They want an eternal home, an eternal residence, but because of accepting a temporal abode in the material world, they are naturally full of anxiety. In the spiritual sky the planets are called Vaikuṇṭha because the residents of these planets are free from all anxieties. For them there is no question of birth, death, old age and diseases, and therefore they are not anxious. ● In the other hand, the residents of the material planets are always afraid of birth, death, disease and old age, and therefore they are full of anxieties.
TEXT 14
वसन्ति यत्र पुरुषाः सर्वे वैकुण्ठमूर्तयः । येऽनिमित्तनिमित्तेन धर्मेणाराधयन् हरिम् ॥१४॥
vasanti yatra puruṣāḥ sarve vaikuṇṭha-mūrtayaḥ ye 'nimitta-nimittena dharmeṇārādhayan harim
vasanti—they live; yatra—where; puruṣāḥ—persons; sarve—all; vaikuṇṭha-mūrtayaḥ—having a four-handed form similar to that of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu; ye—those Vaikuṇṭha persons; animitta—without desire for sense gratification; nimittena—caused by; dharmeṇa—by devotional service; ārādhayan—continuously worshiping; harim—unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
In the Vaikuṇṭha planets all the residents are similar in form to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They all engage in devotional service to the Lord without desires for sense gratification.
PURPORT
The residents and the form of living in Vaikuṇṭha are described in this verse. The residents are all like the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa. In the Vaikuṇṭha planets Kṛṣṇa's plenary feature as four-handed Nārāyaṇa is the predominating Deity, and the residents of Vaikuṇṭhaloka are also four-handed, just contrary to our conception here in the material world. Nowhere in the material world do we find a human being with four hands. In Vaikuṇṭhaloka there is no occupation but the service of the Lord, and this service is not rendered with a purpose. Although every service has a particular result, the devotees never aspire