590 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 15
large hips and beautiful smiling faces, they cannot be stimulated to passion
by their mirth and beautiful charms.
PURPORT
In the material world, opulences are achieved by materialistic persons by
dint of their labor. One cannot enjoy material prosperity unless he works
very hard to achieve it. But the devotees of the Lord who are residents of
Vaikuntha have the opportunity to enjoy a transcendental situation of
jewels and emeralds. Ornaments made of gold bedecked with jewels are
achieved not by working hard but by the benediction of the Lord. In
other words, devotees in the Vaikuntha world, or even in this material
world, cannot be poverty-stricken, as is sometimes supposed. They have
ample opulences for enjoyment, but they need not labor to achieve them.
It is also stated that in the Vaikuntha world the consorts of the residents
are many, many times more beautiful than we can find in this material
world, even in the higher planets. It is specifically mentioned here that a
woman’s large hips are very altractive and they stimulate man’s passion,
but the wonderful feature of Vaikuntha is that although the women have
large hips and beautiful faces and are decorated with ornaments of
emeralds and jewels, the men are so absorbed in Krsna consciousness that
the beautiful bodies of the women cannot attract them. In other words,
there is enjoyment of the association of the opposite sex, but there is no
sex relationship. The residents of Vaikuntha have a better standard of
pleasure, so there is no need of sex pleasure.
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Sri rupini kvanayati caranaravindam
filambujena hari-sadmani mukta-desa
samlaksyate sphatika-kudya upeta-hemni
sammarjativa yad-anugrahane ‘nya-yatnah
§ri—Laksmi, the goddess of fortune; rupini—assuming a beautiful form;
kvanayati—tinkling; carana-aravindam—lotus feet; lila-ambujena— playing
with a lotus flower; hari-sadmani—the house of the Supreme Personality;
mukta-dosa—freed from all fault; samlaksyate—becomes visible; sphatika-
