1424 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 29
ahur dhimra-dhiyo vedam
sakarmakam atad-vidah
svam—own; lokam—abode; na—never; viduh—know; te—such persons;
vai—certainly; yatra—where; devah—the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
janardanah—Krsna or Visnu; Ghuh—speak; dhiimra-dhiyah—the less intel-
ligent class of men; vedam—the four Vedas; sa-karmakam-—full of ritualis-
tic ceremonies; a-tat-vidah— persons who are not in knowledge.
TRANSLATION
Those who are less intelligent accept the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies as
all in all. They do not know that the purpose of the Vedas is to understand
one’s own home, where the Supreme Personality of Godhead lives. Not
being interested in their real home, they are illusioned and search after
other homes.
PURPORT
Generally people are not aware of their interest in life—to return home,
back to Godhead. People do not know about their real home in the spiritual
world. In the spiritual world there are many Vaikuntha planets, and the
topmost planet is Krsnaloka, Goloka Vrndavana. Despite the so-called ad-
vancement of civilization, there is no information of the Vaikunthalokas,
the spiritual planets. At the present moment so-called advanced civilized
men are trying to go to other planets, but they do not know that even if
they go to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, they have to come
back again to this planet. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita:
abrahma-bhuvanal lokah
punar avartino ’rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate
“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are
places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who
attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.”’ (Bg. 8.16)
If one goes to the highest planetary system within this universe he still has
to return after the effects of piousactivities are finished. Space vehicles may
go very high in the sky, but as soon as their fuel is finished, they have to re-
turn to this earthly planet. All these activities are performed in illusion. The
real attempt should now be to return home, back to Godhead. The process
