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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 15 ]
for the fulfillment of their own desires; their desires are fulfilled by rendering transcendental loving service to the Lord.
TEXT 15
यत्र चाद्यः पुमानास्ते भगवान् शब्दगोचरः । सत्त्वं विष्टम्य विरजं स्वानां नो मृडयन् वृषः ॥१५॥
yatra cādyaḥ pumān āste bhagavān śabda-gocaraḥ sattvam viṣṭabhya virajam svānām no mṛḍayan vṛṣaḥ
yatra —in the Vaikuṇṭha planets;  ca —and;  ādyaḥ —original;  pumān —person;  āste —is there;  bhagavān —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  śabda-gocaraḥ —understood through the Vedic literature;  sattvam —the mode of goodness;  viṣṭabhya —accepting;  virajam —uncontaminated;  svānām —of His own associates;  naḥ —us;  mṛḍayan —increasing happiness;  vṛṣaḥ —the personification of religious principles.
TRANSLATION
In the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original person and who can be understood through the Vedic literature. He is full of the uncontaminated mode of goodness, with no place for passion or ignorance. He contributes religious progress for the devotees.
PURPORT
The kingdom of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the spiritual sky cannot be understood by any process other than hearing from the description of the  Vedas . No one can go and see it. In this material world also, one who is unable to pay to go to a far distant place by motorized conveyances can only understand about that place from authentic books. Similarly, the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual sky are beyond this material sky. The modern scientists who are trying to travel in space are having difficulty going even to the nearest planet, the moon, to say nothing of the highest planets within the universe. There is no possibility that they can go beyond the material sky, enter the spiritual sky and see for themselves the spiritual planets, Vaikuṇṭha. Therefore, the kingdom of God in the spiritual sky can be understood only through the authentic descriptions of the  Vedas  and  Purāṇas .