Text 4] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1371

tadd loka layarh yanti
ta ete grha-medhinam

yada—when; ca—and; ahi-indra—of the king of snakes; sayyayam— on
the bed; sete—lies; ananta-dsanah—He whose seat is Ananta Sesa; harih—
Lord Hari; tada—then; lokah—the planets; layam—unto dissolution; yanti—
go; te ete—those very; grha-medhinam-— of the materialistic householders.

TRANSLATION

All the planets of the materialistic persons, including all the heavenly
planets, such as the moon, are vanquished at the time when the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Hari, goes to His bed of serpents, which is
known as Ananta Sega.

PURPORT

The materially attached are very eager to promote themselves to the
heavenly planets such as the moon. There are many heavenly planets to
which they aspire just to achieve more and more material happiness by
getting a long duration of life and the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment.
But the attached persons do not know that even if one goes to the highest
planet, Brahmaloka, destruction exists there also. In Bhagavad-gita the Lord
says that one can even go to the Brahmaloka, but still he will find the pangs
of birth, death, disease and old age. Only by approaching the Lord’s
abode, the Vaikunthaloka, does one not take birth again in this material
world. The grhamedhis or materialistic persons, however, do not like to use
this advantage. They would prefer to transmigrate perpetually from one
body to another, or from one planet to another. They do not want eternal,
blissful life in knowledge in the kingdom of God.

There are two kinds of dissolutions. One dissolution takes place at the
end of the life of Brahma. At that time all the planetary systems, including
the heavenly systems, are dissolved in water and enter into the body of
Garbhodakagayi Visnu, who lies on the Garbhodaka Ocean on the bed of
serpents, called Sesa. In the other dissolution, which occurs at the end of
Brahma’s day, all the lower planetary systems are destroyed. When Lord
Brahma rises after his night, these lower planetary systems are again
created. The statement in Bhagavad-gita that persons who worship the
demigods have lost their intelligence is confirmed in this verse. These less
intelligent persons do not know that even if they are promoted to the
heavenly planets, at the time of dissolution they themselves, the demigods
