It is understood from scriptures like the
Brahma-samhita that in the spiritual abode of the
Lord the houses are made of touchstone and the
trees are all desire trees. There the Lord is accus-
tomed to tending thousands and thousands of
kamadhenus (cows able to supply unlimited quan-
tities of milk). And all the houses, trees, and cows
“are qualitatively nondifferent from the Lord. The
Lord and His paraphernalia in the spiritual abode
are all one and the same in quality, although there
are differences for the pleasure of the Lord. In the
material world also we have various paraphernalia
for our pleasures in life, but because all this para-
phernalia is made of matter it is all destructible at
the end. In the spiritual sky there are the very
same varieties of pleasure, but they are all meant
for the Lord. There the Lord alone is the supreme
enjoyer and beneficiary, and all others are enjoyed
by the Lord. The Lord is served there by all kinds
of servitors, and both the master and the servitors
are of the same quality. This spiritual variegated-
ness is displayed by the Lord when He descends
at Vmdavana, and we may know that the Lord
descends with His personal staff of cows, cow-
herd boys, and cowherd maidens, all of whom
are but spiritual expansions of the Lord Himself for
His own pleasures. Thus when called by the Lord
the cows were overwhelmed by joyous affection,
just as the mother’s breast overflows with milk
when the child cries for it.
