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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 23]
nothing is impossible. Although  yogīs  can perform wonderful feats, as Kardama has already displayed, Kardama was more than a  yogī  because he was a great devotee of the Lord; therefore he was more glorious than an ordinary  yogī . As it is confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā , “Out of the many  yogīs , he who is a devotee of the Lord is first class.” For a person like Kardama Muni there is no question of being conditioned; he was already a liberated soul and better than the demigods, who are also conditioned. Although he was enjoying with his wife and many other women, he was above material conditional life. Therefore the word  vyasanātyayaḥ  is used to indicate that he was beyond the position of a conditioned soul. He was transcendental to all material limitations.
TEXT 43
प्रेक्षयित्वा भुवो गोलं पत्न्यै यावान् स्वसंस्थया । बह्वाश्चर्यं महायोगी स्वाश्रमाय न्यवर्तत ॥४३॥
prekṣayitvā bhuvo golaṁ patnyai yāvān sva-saṁsthayā bahv-āścaryaṁ mahā-yogī svāśramāya nyavartata
prekṣayitvā —after showing;  bhuvaḥ —of the universe;  golaṁ —the globe;  patnyai —to his wife;  yāvān —as much;  sva-saṁsthayā —with its arrangements;  bahu-āścaryaṁ —full of many wonders;  mahā-yogī —the great  yogī  (Kardama);  sva-āśramāya —to his own hermitage;  nyavartata —returned.
TRANSLATION
After showing his wife the globe of the universe and its different arrangements, full of many wonders, the great  yogī  Kardama Muni returned to his own hermitage.
PURPORT
All the planets are here described as  gola , round. Every planet is round, and each planet is a different shelter, just like islands in the great ocean. Planets are sometimes called  dvīpa  or  varṣa . This earth planet is called Bhārata-varṣa because it was ruled by King Bharata. Another significant word used in this verse is  bahv-āścarya , “many wonderful things.” This indicates that the different planets are distributed all over the uni-