Text 155] The Lord Instructs Srila Rapa Gosvami 337

Personality of Godhead exists on His own planet Goloka Vrndavana, He is present
everywhere. Anddntara-stha-paramanu-caydantara-stham. He is present within all
universes, although they are innumerable. He is present within the atom. iSvarah
sarva-bhutanarn hrd-dese ‘rjuna tisthati: He is also present within the heart of all
living entities. This is His all-pervasive potency.

Goloka Vrndavana is the highest planet in the spiritual world. In order to go to
the spiritual world after penetrating the cover of the material universe, one must
penetrate brahma-loka, the spiritual effulgence. Then one can come to the
Goloka Vrndavana planet. There are also other planets in the spiritual world called
Vaikuntha planets, and on these planets Lord Narayana is worshiped with awe
and veneration. On these planets the santa-rasa is prevalent, and some of the
devotees are also connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the
dasya-rasa, the mellow of servitorship. As far as the mellow of fraternity is con-
cerned, the Vaikuntha rasa is represented by gaurava-sakhya, friendship in awe
and veneration. The other fraternity rasa is exhibited as visrambha (friendship in
equality), and this is found in the Goloka Vrndavana planet. Above that is service
to the Lord in vatsalya-rasa (paternal love), and above all is the relationship with
the Lord in the maddhurya-rasa (conjugal love). These five rasas are fully exhibited
in the spiritual world in one’s relationship with the Lord. Therefore in the spiritual
world the bhakti-lata creeper finds its resting place at the lotus feet of Krsna.

TEXT 155

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tahan vistarita hafia phale prema-phala
ihan mali sece nitya sravanadi jala

SYNONYMS

tahan—there in the spiritual world (in the Goloka Vrndavana planet); vistarita—
expanded; hafia—becoming; phale—produces; prema-phala—the fruit known as
love of Godhead; ihan —in the material world, where the devotee is still present;
mali—exactly like a gardener; sece—sprinkles; nitya—regularly, without fail; sra-
vana-adi jala—the water of sravana, kirtana and so on.

TRANSLATION

“The creeper greatly expands in the Goloka Vrndavana planet, and there it
produces the fruit of love for Krsna. Although remaining in the material world,
the gardener regularly sprinkles the creeper with the water of hearing and
chanting.
