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the brahmajyoti is concentrated in Goloka Vrndavana, the topmost spiritual
planet in the spiritual sky. The immeasurable spiritual sky is full of spiritual
planets, named Vaikunthas, far beyond the material sky. The mundaners
have no sufficient information of even the mundane sky, so what can they
think of the spiritual sky? Therefore the mundaners are always far, far
away from Him. Even if they are able to manufacture some machine, in
the future, whose speed may be accelerated to the velocity of the air or
mind, the mundaners will stil] be unable to imagine reaching the planets
in the spiritual sky. So the Lord and His residential abode will always
remain a myth or a mysterious problem, but for the devotees the Lord
will always be available as an associate.

In the spiritual sky His opulence is immeasurable. The Lord resides in all
the spiritual planets, or innumerable Vaikuntha planets, by expanding
His plenary portions along with His liberated devotee associates, but the
impersonalists who want to merge in the existence of the Lord are allowed
to merge as one of the spiritual sparks of brahmajyoti. They have no
qualifications for becoming one of the associates of the Lord either in the
Vaikuntha planets or in the supreme planet Goloka Vrndavana, described
in the Bhagavad-gita as the mad-dhama, and here in this verse as the
sva-dhama of the Lord.

This mad-dhama or sva-dhama is described in the Bhagavad-gita as
follows:

na tad bhasayate siiryo na sasanko na pavkah
yad gatva na nivartante tad-dhama paramam mama.
(Bg. 15.6)

The Lord’s sva-dhadma does not require any sunlight or moonlight or
electricity for illumination. That dhama, or place, is supreme, and whoever
goes there never comes back to this material world.

The Vaikuntha planets and the Goloka Vrndavana planet are all self-
illuminating, and the rays are scattered by those sva-dhama of the Lord
which constitute the existence of the brahmajyoti. It is further confirmed
in the Vedas like the Mundaka, Katha and Svetasvatara Upanisads:

na tatra siiryo bhati na candratarakam
nema vidyuto bhanti kuto ayam agnih
tam eva bhantam anubhati sarvam
tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati.
