586 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 15

no difference between the tree and the animal or the animal and the man.
Here the word murtimat indicates that everything has a spiritual form.
Formlessness, as conceived by the impersonalists, is refuted in this verse;
in the Vaikuntha planets, although everything is spiritual, everything has
a particular form. The trees and the men have form, and because all of
them, although differently formed, are spiritual, there is no difference
between them.

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vaimanikah salalanas caritani sasvat
gayanti yatra samala-ksapanani bhartuh
antarjale ‘nuvikasan-madhu-madhavinam
gandhena khandita-dhiyo ‘py anilam ksipantah

vaimanikah—flying in their airplanes; sa-lalanah-along with their wives;
caritani—activities; sasvat—eternally; gayanti—sing; yatra—in those
Vaikuntha planets; samala—all inauspicious qualities; ksapanani—devoid
of; bhartuh—of the Supreme Lord; antarjale—in the midst of the water;
anuvikasat—blossoming; madhu—fragrant, laden with honey; madhavinam—
of the madhavi flowers; gandhena—by the fragrance; khandita—disturbed;
dhiyah—minds; api—even though; anilam—breeze; ksipantah —deriding.

TRANSLATION

In the Vaikuntha planets the inhabitants fly in their airplanes,
accompanied by their wives and consorts, and eternally sing of the character
and activities of the Lord, which are always devoid of all inauspicious
qualities. While singing the glories of the Lord, they deride even the
presence of the blossoming madhavi flowers, which are fragrant and laden
with honey.

PURPORT

It appears from this verse that the Vaikuntha planets are full of all
opulences. There are airplanes in which the inhabitants travel in the spiri-
