336 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 19
TEXT 154
Sea BA SAala ‘caticrrs-gentaay’ |
‘SVOAS|"- FHI FCA ACARI 38
tabe yaya tad-upari ‘goloka-vrndavana’
‘krsna-carana’-kalpa-vrkse kare arohana
SYNONYMS
tabe—thereafter; yaya—goes; tat-upari—to the top of that (the spiritual sky);
goloka-vrndavana—to the planet known as Goloka Vrndavana where Krsna lives;
krsna-carana—of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna; kalpa-vrkse—on the desire tree;
kare drohana—climbs.
TRANSLATION
“Being situated in one’s heart and being watered by sravana-kirtana, the
bhakti creeper grows more and more. In this way it attains the shelter of the
desire tree of the lotus feet of Krsna, who is eternally situated in the planet
known as Goloka Vrndavana in the topmost region of the spiritual sky.
PURPORT
In Brahma-samhita (5.37) it is said:
dnanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhavitabhis
tabhir ya eva nija-rGpataya kalabhih
goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhito
govindam dadi-purusam tam aharn bhajami
“1 worship Govinda, the primeval Lord. He resides in His own realm, Goloka, with
Radha, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic
potency [hladini]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody exten-
sions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful
spiritual rasa.” In the spiritual world, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna,
has expanded Himself in His spiritual potency. He has His eternal form of bliss and
knowledge (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha). Everything in the Goloka Vrndavana planet
is a spiritual expansion of sac-cid-dnanda. Everyone there is of the same poten-
cy — 4nanda-cinmaya-rasa. The relationship between the Supreme Personality of
Godhead and His servitor is cinmaya-rasa. Krsna and His entourage and parapher-
nalia are of the same cinmaya potency. When the cinmaya-rasa potency goes
through the material potency, it becomes all-pervading. Although the Supreme
