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Brahmaloka where Lord Brahma lives, and among these demigods there
are always different gradations of knowledge. But past this material world,
in the Vaikuntha sky, everyone is in full knowledge. All the living entities
there are engaged in devotional service to the Lord, either in the Vaikuntha
planets or in Krsnaloka.

As it is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, full knowledge means knowing
Krsna to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the Vedas and
Bhagavad-gita it is also stated that in the brahmajyoti or spiritual sky
there is no need of sunlight, moonlight, or electricity. All those planets are
self-illuminating, and all of them are eternally situated. There is no ques-
tion of creation and annihilation in the brahmajyoti, spiritual sky.
Bhagavad-gita also confirms that beyond the material sky there is another
eternal spiritual sky where everything is eternally existing. Information of
the spiritual sky can be had only from great sages and saintly persons who
have already surpassed the influence of the three material modes of nature.
Unless one is constantly situated on that transcendental platform, it is not
possible to understand the spiritual nature.

Therefore it is recommended that one should take to bhakti-yoga and
keep himself engaged twenty-four hours in Krsna consciousness, which
places one beyond the reach of the modes of material nature. One in
Krsna consciousness can easily understand the nature of the spiritual sky
and Vaikunthaloka. The inhabitants of Vrndavana, being always engaged
in Krsna consciousness, could therefore very easily understand the tran-
scendental nature of the Vaikunthalokas.

Thus Krsna led all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, to the
lake where Akrira was later shown the Vaikuntha planetary system. They
took their bath immediately and saw the real nature of the Vaikunthalokas.
After seeing the spiritual sky and the Vaikunthalokas, all the men, headed
by Nanda Maharaja, felt wonderfully blissful, and coming out of the river,
they saw Krsna, who was being worshiped with excellent prayers.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-eighth Chapter of
Krsna, “Releasing Nanda Maharaja from the Clutches of Varuna.”
