398 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

TEXT 33

ARCS ata Sta eiafsa ANT |
foeaast, Stal athe fooefe-faata | oo i

‘siddha-loka’ nama tara prakrtira para
cit-svaripa, tanhd nahi cic-chakti-vikdra

SYNONYMS

‘siddha-loka—the region of the Siddhas; ndma—named; tdra—of the effulgent
atmosphere; prakrtira pdra—beyond this material nature; c/t-svarijpa—full of
knowledge; tanha—there; ndhi—there is not; cit-Sakti-vikdra—change of the spiritual
energy.

TRANSLATION

That region is called Siddhaloka, and it is beyond material nature. Its essence is
spiritual, but it does not have spiritual varieties.

TEXT 34

qe aa afeca fafecea |
fewca ycda ae-erife afecig 18 1

surya-mandala yena bahire nirvisesa
bhitare siryera ratha-ddi savisesa

SYNONYMS

sirya-mandala—the sun globe; yena—like; bdhire—externally; nirvisesa—without
varieties; bhitare— within; saryera—of the sun-god; ratha-ddi—opulences like chariots
and other things; sa-visesa—full of varieties.

TRANSLATION

It is like the homogeneous effulgence around the sun. But inside the sun are the
chariots, horses and other opulences of the sun-god.

PURPORT

Outside of Vaikuntha, the abode of Krsna, which is called paravyoma, is the
glaring effulgence of Krsna’s bodily rays. This is called the brahmajyoti. The transcen-
dental region of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When imper-
sonalists achieve liberation, they merge in that Brahmaloka effulgence. This
transcendental region is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations
of spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to the glow of the sun.
Within the sun’s glow is the sphere of the sun, where one can experience all sorts of
varieties.
