Text 16] Activities of Kapila 1435

PURPORT

The statement in this verse that Kardama Muni’s household affairs were
envied even by persons who travel in outer space refers to the denizens of
heaven. Their airships are not like those we have invented in the modern
age, which fly only from one country to another; their airplanes were
capable of going from one planet to another. There are many such
statements in the Srimad-Bhagavatam from which we can understand that
there were facilities to travel from one planet to another, especially in the
higher planetary system, and who can say that they are not still traveling?
The speed of our airplanes and space vehicles is very limited, but, as we
have already studied, Kardama Muni traveled in outer space in an airplane
which was like a city, and he journeyed to see all the different heavenly
planets. That was not an ordinary airplane, nor was it ordinary space
travel. Because Kardama Muni was such a powerful mystic yogi, his
opulence was envied by the denizens of heaven.

TEXT 16

TAHA: WA Ted GFAIL TTT: |
ATTA A VHT AETATATNA NZI

payah-phena-nibhah say ya
dantd rukma-paricchadah

asanani ca haimani
susparsastaranani ca

payah—of milk; phena—the foam; nibhdh—resembling; sayyah—beds;
dantah— made of ivory; rukma—golden; paricchadah—with covers; dsandni—
chairs and benches; ca—and; haimani—made of gold; su-sparsa—soft to the
touch; dstarandni—cushions; ca—and.

TRANSLATION

The opulence of the household of Kardama Muni is described herein.
The bedsheets and mattresses were all as white as the foam of milk, the
chairs and benches were made of ivory and were covered by cloths of lace
with golden filigree, and the couches were made of gold and had very soft
pillows.
