600 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 15
Muni traveled everywhere and went into the spiritual sky to meet the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana. By present standards,
scientists calculate that if one could travel at the speed of light, it would
take 40,000 years to reach the highest planet of this material world. But
the yoga system can carry one without limitation or difficulty. The word
yoga-maya is used in this verse. Yoga-maya-balena vikuntham. The
transcendental happiness exhibited in the spiritual world and all other
spiritual manifestations there are made possible by the influence of yoga-
maya, the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TEXT 27
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HO: TATATATTTT THAT |
PrarcatateazgIn — Roll
tasminn atitya munayah sad asajjamanah
kaksah samana-vayasav atha saptamayam
devav acaksata grhita-gadau parardhya-
keyttra-kundala-kirita-vitanka-vesau
tasmin—in that Vaikuntha; atitya—after passing through; munayah—
the great sages; sat—six; asajjamanah—without being much attracted;
kaksah—walls; samana—equal; vayasau—age; atha—thereafter; saptam-
ayam—at the seventh gate; devau—two Vaikuntha doormen; acaksata—
saw; grhita—carrying; gadau—maces; para-ardh ya—most valuable; keyura—
bracelets; kundala—earrings; kirita—helmets; vitanka—beautiful; vesau—
garments.
TRANSLATION
After passing through the six entrances of Vaikuntha Puri, the Lord’s
residence, without feeling astonishment at all the decorations, they saw
at the seventh gate two shining beings of the same age, armed with maces
and adorned with most valuable jewelry, earrings, diamonds, etc.
PURPORT
The sages were so eager to see the Lord within Vaikuntha Puri that they
did not care to see the transcendental decorations of the six gates which
they passed by one after another. But at the seventh door they found two
doormen of the same age. The significance of the doormen’s being of the
same age is that in the Vaikunthaplanets there is no old age, so one cannot
