Text 27] The Doorkeepers Cursed by the Sages 665
incarnation, yet he preached atheism: “There is no God.” But actually
there was a plan behind this, as explained in the Bhagavatam.
TEXT 27
TTA
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aq A FAN CA AMAA |
as ° na ° ° °
qHs aateM As a aiTAZ IRI
brahmovaca
atha te munayo drstva
nayanananda-bhajanam
vaikuntham tad-adhisthanam
vikuntham ca svayam-prabham
brahma uvaca—Lord Brahma said; atha—now; te—those; munayah—
sages; drstva—after seeing; nayana—of the eyes; ananda—pleasure; bhaja-
nam— producing; vaikuntham—the Vaikuntha planet; tat-of Him; adhistha-
nam—the abode; vikuntham—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca—
and; svayam-prabham—self-illuminating.
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahma said: After seeing the Lord of Vaikuntha, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, in the self-illuminated Vaikuntha planet, the
sages left that transcendental abode.
PURPORT
The transcendental abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as
stated in Bhagavad-gita and confirmed in this verse, is self-illuminated. In
Bhagavad-gita it is said that in the spiritual world there is no need of sun,
moon or electricity. This indicates that all the planets there are self-
illuminated, self-sufficient and independent; everything there is complete.
Lord Krsna says that once one goes to that Vaikuntha planet, he never
returns. The inhabitants of Vaikuytha never return to the material world,
but the incident of Jaya and Vijaya was a different case. They came to
the material world for some time, and then again they returned to
Vaikuntha.
