Text 14] Description of the Kingdom of God 583
living creature must be full of cares and anxieties because in the material
planets one cannot live eternally. The living entities, however, are actually
eternal. They want an eternal home, an eternal residence, but because of
accepting a temporal abode in the material world, they are naturally full
of anxiety. In the spiritual sky the planets are called Vaikuntha because
the residents of these planets are free from all anxieties. For them there is
no question of birth, death, old age and diseases, and therefore they are
not anxious. @n the other hand, the residents of the material planets are
always afraid of birth, death, disease and old age, and therefore they are
full of anxieties.
TEXT 14
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ashfraratata TOTTTT ty 12 VII
vasanti yatra purusah
sarve vaikuntha-murtayah
ye ‘nimitta-nimittena
dharmenaradhayan harim

vasanti—they live; yatra—where; purusah—persons; sarve—all; vaikuntha-
murtayah—having a four-handed form similar to that of the Supreme Lord,
Visnu; ye—those Vaikuntha persons; animitta—without desire for sense
gratification; nimittena—caused by; dharmena—by devotional service;
aradhayan—continuously worshiping; harim—unto the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

In the Vaikuntha planets all the residents are similar in form to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. They all engage in devotional service to
the Lord without desires for sense gratification.

PURPORT

The residents and the form of living in Vaikuntha are described in this
verse. The residents are all like the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Narayana. In the Vaikuntha planets Krgna’s plenary feature as four-
handed Narayana is the predominating Deity, and the residents of
Vaikunthaloka are also four-handed, just contrary to our conception here
in the material world. Nowhere in the material world do we find a human
being with four hands. In Vaikunthaloka there is no occupation but the
service of the Lord, and this service is not rendered with a purpose.
Although every service has a particular result, the devotees never aspire
