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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 15]
no difference between the tree and the animal or the animal and the man. Here the word  mūrtimat  indicates that everything has a spiritual form. Formlessness, as conceived by the impersonalists, is refuted in this verse; in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, although everything is spiritual, everything has a particular form. The trees and the men have form, and because all of them, although differently formed, are spiritual, there is no difference between them.
TEXT 17
वैमानिकाः सललनाश्वरितानि शश्वत
गायन्ति यत्र शमलक्षणानि भर्तुः।
अन्तर्जलेऽनुविकसन्मधुमाधवीनां
गन्धेन खण्डितधियोऽप्यनिलं क्षिपन्तः ॥१७॥
vaimānikāḥ salalanāś caritāni śaśvat
gāyanti yatra śamala-kṣapaṇāni bhartuḥ
antarjale 'nuvikasan-madhu-mādhavīnām
gandhena khaṇḍita-dhiyo 'py anilam kṣipantaḥ
vaimānikāḥ —flying in their airplanes;  sa-lalanāḥ —along with their wives;  caritāni —activities;  śaśvat —eternally;  gāyanti —sing;  yatra —in those Vaikuṇṭha planets;  śamala —all inauspicious qualities;  kṣapaṇāni —devoid of;  bhartuḥ —of the Supreme Lord;  antarjale —in the midst of the water;  anuvikasat —blossoming;  madhu —fragrant, laden with honey;  mādhavīnām —of the  mādhavī  flowers;  gandhena —by the fragrance;  khaṇḍita —disturbed;  dhiyaḥ —minds;  api —even though;  anilam —breeze;  kṣipantaḥ —deriding.
TRANSLATION
In the Vaikuṇṭha planets the inhabitants fly in their airplanes, accompanied by their wives and consorts, and eternally sing of the character and activities of the Lord, which are always devoid of all inauspicious qualities. While singing the glories of the Lord, they deride even the presence of the blossoming  mādhavī  flowers, which are fragrant and laden with honey.
PURPORT
It appears from this verse that the Vaikuṇṭha planets are full of all opulences. There are airplanes in which the inhabitants travel in the spiri-