Texts 35-36] Disappearance of Lord Krsna 757
mangalaya ca lokanam
ksemaya ca bhavaya ca
aste yadu-kulambhodhav
adyo ’nanta-sakhah puman
yad bahu-danda-guptayam
sva-puryam yadavo ’rcitah
kridanti paramanandam
maha-paurusika iva
mangalaya—for all good; ca—also;lokanam—of all the planets; ksemaya—
for protection; ca—and; bhavaya—for elevation; ca—also; aste—is there;
yadu-kula-ambhodhau—in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty; adyah—the
original; ananta-sakhah—in the company of Ananta (Balarama); puman—
the supreme enjoyer; yat— whose; bahu-danda guptayam—being protected
by His arms; sva-puryam—in His own city; yadavah—the members of the
Yadu family; arcitah—as they deserve; kridanti—are relishing; parama-
nandam—transcendental pleasure; maha-paurusikah—the residents of the
spiritual sky; iva—like.
TRANSLATION
The original Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer, and Balarama, the
primeval Lord Ananta, are staying in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty for
the welfare, protection and general progress of the entire universe. And
the members of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of the
Lord, are enjoying life like the residents of the spiritual sky.
PURPORT
As we have discussed many times, the Personality of Godhead Visnu
resides within each and every universe in two capacities, namely as the
Garbhodakaégayi Visnu and the Ksirodakasayi Visnu. The Ksirodakagayi
Visnu has His own planet on the northern top of the universe, and there
is a great ocean of milk where the Lord resides on the bed of the Ananta
incarnation of Baladeva. Thus Maharaja Yudhisthira has compared the
Yadu dynasty to the ocean of milk and Sri Balarama to the Ananta where
Lord Krsna resides. He has compared the citizens of Dvaraka to the liberated
inhabitants of the Vaikunthalokas. Beyond the material sky, further than
we can see with our eyes and beyond the sevenfold coverings of the
universe, there is the Causal Ocean in which all the universes are floating
like footballs, and beyond the Causal Ocean there is an unlimited span of
