Ailila
CHAPTER 5

This chapter is chiefly devoted to describing the essential nature and glories of
Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Lord Sri Krsna is the absolute Personality of Godhead, and
His first expansion in a form for pastimes is Sri Balarama.

Beyond the limitation of this material world is the spiritual sky, paravyoma,
which has many spiritual planets, the supreme of which is called Krsnaloka.
Krsnaloka, the abode of Krsna, has three divisions, which are known as Dvaraka,
Mathura and Gokula. In that abode the Personality of Godhead expands Himself
into four plenary portions—Krsna, Balardma, Pradyumna (the transcendental Cupid)
and Aniruddha. They are known as the original quadruple forms.

In Krsnaloka is a transcendental place known as Svetadvipa or Vrndavana. Below
Krsnaloka, in the spiritual sky, are the Vaikuntha planets. On each Vaikuntha
planet a four-handed Narayana, expanded from the first quadruple manifestation,
is present. The Personality of Godhead known as Sri Balarama in Krsnaloka is the
original Sankarsana (attracting Deity), and from this Sanikarsana expands another
Sankarsana, called Maha-Sankarsana, who resides in one of the Vaikuntha planets.
By His internal potency, Maha-Sankarsana maintains the transcendental existence
of all the planets in the spiritual sky, where all the living beings are eternally
liberated souls. The influence of the material energy is conspicuous there by its
absence. On those planets the second quadruple manifestation is present.

Outside of the Vaikuntha planets is the impersonal manifestation of Sri Krsna,
which is known as the Brahmaloka. On the other side of the Brahmaloka is the
spiritual kdrana-samudra, or Causal Ocean. The material energy exists on the other
side of the Causal Ocean, without touching it. In the Causal Ocean is Maha-Visnu,
the original purusa expansion from Sankarsana. This Maha-Visnu places His glance
over the material energy, and by a reflection of His transcendental body He
amalgamates Himself within the material elements.

As the source of the material elements, the material energy is known as pradhdna,
and as the source of the manifestations of the material energy it is known as mdyd.
But material nature is inert in that she has no independent power to do anything.
She is empowered to make the cosmic manifestation by the glance of Maha-Visnu.
Therefore the material energy is not the original cause of the material manifestation.
Rather, the transcendental glance of Maha-Visnu over material nature produces that
cosmic manifestation.

Maha-Visnu again enters every universe as the reservoir of all living entities,
GarbhodakaSayi Visnu. From Garbhodakasayi Visnu expands Ksirodakasay1 Visnu,
the Supersoul of every living entity. Garbhodakasayt Visnu also has His own
Vaikuntha planet in every universe, where He lives as the Supersoul or supreme

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