The Opulences of Krishna 83
Vaikuntha planet is hundreds and thousands of millions and billions of miles.
Nobody can measure billions of miles or measure the actual extent of such
Vaikuntha planets. Each of them is unlimitedly expanded, and in each and
every one of them there are residents who are full with all six opulences--
wealth, strength, knowledge, beauty, fame, and renunciation. And the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is present in each. In each and every Vaikuntha planet
a different expansion of Krishna has His eternal Abode. And Krishna has His
original eternal Abode on the planet called Krishna Loka, or Goloka Vrin-
daban.

We have experience in this Universe that even the largest planet is lying
in only one corner of outer space. For example the Sun is supposed to be
some million times bigger than the Earth, and still it lies in one corner of outer
space. Similarly each of the Vaikuntha planets, although unlimited in length
and breadth, lies in some corner of the Spiritual Sky, known as Brahmajyoti.
In the Brahma Samhita this Brahmajyoti is described as Niskla ananta Asesa, or
undivided and unlimited, without any trace of the material modes of Nature.
All the Vaikunthas are like the petals of a lotus flower, and the principal part
of that lotus is the center of all the Vaikunthas, and that is called Krishna Loka,
or Goloka Vrindaban.

Therefore, the expansions of Krishna in various forms as described herein,
as well as His different Abodes on the Spiritual Planets in the Spiritual Sky,
are unlimited. Even demigods like Brahma and Shiva cannot see or even
estimate how many planets there are or how vast is their extension. This is
confirmed in the Srimad Bhagwatam, Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter: “No
one can estimate the length and breadth of all the Vaikuntha planets.” It is
said there that not only the demigods like Brahma and Shiva are unable to
make such an estimate, but also Ananta, Who is an incarnation of the Lord
in His opulence of strength, cannot describe any limitation to the Lord’s
potency, or to the area of the different Vaikuntha planets.

In this connection the prayers of Brahma, mentioned in the Srimad Bhag-
watam, Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, are very convincing. Lord Brahma
says, “O my dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Supersoul,
O Master of all Mystic Powers—nobody can know or explain Your potential
expansion through Your Yogamaya energy, which extends all over the three
worlds. The scientist and the learned man cannot even estimate the atomic
constitution of any single planet. They may be able to count the molecules
of snow in the sky, or they may even count the number of stars in the sky,
but no one can estimate how You descend on this Earth or in this Universe,
