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Activities of Kapila
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PURPORT
The statement in this verse that Kardama Muni's household affairs were envied even by persons who travel in outer space refers to the denizens of heaven. Their airships are not like those we have invented in the modern age, which fly only from one country to another; their airplanes were capable of going from one planet to another. There are many such statements in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  from which we can understand that there were facilities to travel from one planet to another, especially in the higher planetary system, and who can say that they are not still traveling? The speed of our airplanes and space vehicles is very limited, but, as we have already studied, Kardama Muni traveled in outer space in an airplane which was like a city, and he journeyed to see all the different heavenly planets. That was not an ordinary airplane, nor was it ordinary space travel. Because Kardama Muni was such a powerful mystic  yogī , his opulence was envied by the denizens of heaven.
TEXT 16
पयःफेननिभाः शय्या दान्ता रुक्मपरिच्छदाः ।
आसनानि च हैमानि सुस्पर्शस्तरणानि च ॥१६॥
payaḥ-phena-nibhāḥ śayyā  
 dāntā rukma-paricchadāḥ  
 āsanāni ca haimāni  
 susparśāstaraṇāni ca
payaḥ —of milk;  phena —the foam;  nibhāḥ —resembling;  śayyāḥ —beds;  dāntāḥ —made of ivory;  rukma —golden;  paricchadāḥ —with covers;  āsanāni —chairs and benches;  ca —and;  haimāni —made of gold;  su-sparśa —soft to the touch;  āstaraṇāni —cushions;  ca —and.
TRANSLATION
The opulence of the household of Kardama Muni is described herein. The bedsheets and mattresses were all as white as the foam of milk, the chairs and benches were made of ivory and were covered by cloths of lace with golden filigree, and the couches were made of gold and had very soft pillows.