382 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

SYNONYMS

sarva-upari—above all of them; $rigokula—the place known as Gokula; vraja-loka-
dhama—the place of Vraja; $ri-go/oka—the place named Goloka; sveta-dvipa—the
white island; vrndavana nama—also named Vrndavana.

TRANSLATION

Sr7- Gokula, the highest of all, is also called Vraja, Goloka, Svetadvipa and
Vrndavana.

TEXT 18

Ww, Bag, rE, Feo |
THA aifotatce, ates ForTy oy |

sarvaga, ananta, vibhu, krsna-tanu-sama
upary-adho vydpiyache, nahika niyama

SYNONYMS

sarva-ga—all-pervading; ananta—unlimited; vibhu—the greatest; krsna-tanu-sama—
exactly like the transcendental body of Krsna; upari-adhah—up and down;
vyapiyache—ex panded; nahika—there is no; niyama—regulation.

TRANSLATION

Like the transcendental body of Lord Krsna, Gokula is all-pervading, infinite and
supreme. It expands both above and below, without any restriction.

PURPORT

Srila Jiva Gosvami, the great authority and philosopher in the line of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, has discussed the abode of Krsna in his Krsna-sandarbha. \n Bhagavad-
gita the Lord refers to ‘‘My abode.” Srila Jiva Gosvamt, examining the nature of
Krsna’s abode, refers to the Skanda Purana, which states:

ya yatha bhuvi vartante
puryo bhagavatah priyah

tds tathd santi vaikunthe
tat-tal-lilartham adrtah

“The abodes of Godhead in the material world, such as Dvaraka, Mathura and
Goloka, are facsimiles representing the abodes of Godhead in the kingdom of God,
Vaikuntha-dhdma.”’ The unlimited spiritual atmosphere of that Vaikuntha-dhama
is far above and beyond the material cosmos. This is confirmed in the Sv@yambhuva-
tantra in adiscussion between Lord Siva and Parvatt regarding the effect of chanting
the mantra of fourteen syllables. There it is stated:
