CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
The Sisumara Planetary System
This chapter describes how all the planetary systems take shelter of the
polestar, Dhruvaloka. It also describes the totality of these planetary
systems to be Sigumara, another expansion of the external body of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Dhruvaloka, the abode of Lord Visnu
within this universe, is situated 1,300,000 yojanas from the seven stars.
In the planetary system of Dhruvaloka are the planets of the fire-god, In-
dra, Prajapati, Kasyapa and Dharma, all of whom are very respectful to
the great devotee Dhruva, who lives on the polestar. Like bulls yoked to a
central pivot, all the planetary systems revolve around Dhruvaloka, im-
pelled by eternal time. Those who worship the virdta-purusa, the univer-
sal form of the Lord, conceive of this entire rotating system of planets as
an animal known as Sisumara. This imaginary sisum@ra is another form
of the Lord. The head of the sisumara form is downward, and its body
appears like that of a coiled snake. On the end of its tail is Dhruvaloka,
on the body of the tail are Prajapati, Agni, Indra and Dharma, and on the
root of the tail are Dhata and Vidhata. On its waist are the seven great
sages. The entire body of the sisumdra faces toward its right and appears
like a coil of stars. On the right side of this coil are the fourteen promi-
nent stars from Abhijit to Punarvasu, and on the left side are the four-
teen prominent stars from Pusya to Uttarasédha. The stars known as
Punarvasu and Pusyd are on the right and left hips of the sisumara, and
the stars known as Ardra and Aélesa are on the right and left feet of the
Sisumara. Other stars are also fixed on different sides. of the Sisumara
planetary system according to the calculations of Vedic astronomers. To
concentrate their minds, yogis worship the Sisumara planetary system,
which is technically known as the kundalini-cakra.
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