Text 8] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 169

vats laltva-bhedair adhi-loka-natho
lokan alokan saha loka-palan

actkipad vatra hi sarva-sallva
nikava-bhedo ‘dhikrtah pratitah

yath—by whom: tatlva—truth: bhedaih—by differentiation: adhi-loka-

nathah—the King of the kings; lokdn—planets: alokdn—planets of the
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lower region; saha—along with: loka-palan—respective kings; aethklpat—
Se B I Se .

planned; yatra— wherein; hi—certainly: sarva—all: satlva—existence; ntkdya—
living entities; bhedah—difference; adhikrtah—occupied: pratitah—it so
appears.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme King of all kings has created different planets and places
of habitation where living entities are situated in terms of the modes of
nature and work, and He has created their different kings and rulers.

PURPORT

Lord Krsna is the chief King of all kings, and He has created different
planets for all kinds of living entities. Even on this planet there are
different places for inhabitation by different’ types of men. There are
places like deserts, icelands and valleys i in mountainous countries, and in
each of them there are different kinds of men born of different modes of
nature according to their past deeds. There are people in the Arabian
deserts and in the valleys of the Himalayan Mountains, and the inhabitants
of these two places differ from one another, just as the inhabitants of the
icelands also differ from them. Similarly, there are also different planets.
The planets below the earth down to the Patala planet are full of various
kinds of living beings; no planet is vacant, as is wrongly imagined by the
modern so-called scientist. In Bhagavad-gita we find it said by the Lord
that the living entities are sarva-gala, or present in every sphere of life. So
there is no doubt that on other planets there are also inhabitants like us,
sometimes with greater intelligence and greater opulence. The living
conditions for those of greater intelligence are more luxurious than on this
earth. There are also planets where no sunlight reaches, and there are
living entities who must live there due to their past deeds. All such plans
for living conditions are made by the Supreme Lord, and Vidura requested
Maitreya to describe this for the sake of further enlightenment.
