Text 16] Description of the Kingdom of God 585

In the material world there are three modes of material qualities—good-
ness, passion and ignorance, but in the spiritual world there is no trace of
the modes of passion and ignorance; there is only the mode of goodness,
which is uncontaminated by any tinge of ignorance or passion.In the mate-
rial world, even if a person is completely in goodness, he is sometimes sub-
ject to be polluted by the tinges of the modes of ignorance and passion.
But in the Vaikuntha world, the spiritual sky, only the mode of goodness
in its pure form exists. The Lord and His devotees reside in the Vaikuntha
planets, and they are of the same transcendental quality, namely, suddha-
sattva, the mode of pure goodness. The Vaikuntha planets are very dear to
the Vaisnavas, and for the progressive march of the Vaisnavas toward the
kingdom of God, the Lord Himself helps His devotees.

TEXT 16
wa tad a avd BATRA: |
aidniitamcareria  afiaq 2s

yatra naihsreyasam nama
vanam kama-dughair drumaih

sarva-rtu-sribhir vibhrajat
kaivalyam iva murtimat

yatra—in the Vaikuntha planets; naihsreyasam—auspicious; nama—named;
vanam—forests; kama-dughaih—yielding desire; drumaih—with trees; sarva—
all; rtu—seasons; sribhih—with flowers and fruits; vibhrajat—splendid;
kaivalyam—spiritual; iva—as; mirtimat—personal.

TRANSLATION

In those Vaikuntha planets there are many forests which are very
auspicious. In those forests the trees are desire trees, and in all seasons
they are filled with flowers and fruits because everything in the Vaikuntha
planets is spiritual and personal.

PURPORT

In the Vaikuntha planets the land, the trees, the fruits and flowers and
the cows—everything—is completely spiritual and personal. Trees are desire
trees. On this material planet the trees can produce fruits and flowers
according to the order of material energy, but in the Vaikuntha planets
the trees, the land, the residents and the animals are all spiritual. There is
