Volume 7 - Prabhupada

Text 155] The lord Instructs Srila Rupa Gosvami 337Personality of Godhead exists on His own planet Goloka Vrndavana, He is presenteverywhere. Arxiantara-stha-paramaQu-cayantara-stham. He is present within alluniverses, although they are innumerable. He is present within the atom. isvara/:1sarva-bhatanarh hrd-dese 'rjuna ti$thati: He is also present within the heart of allliving entities. This is His all-pervasive potency.Goloka Vrndavana is the highest planet in the spiritual world. In order to go tothe spiritual world after penetrating the cover of the material universe, one mustpenetrate brahma-loka, the spiritual effulgence. Then one can come to theGoloka Vrndavana planet. There are also other planets in the spiritual world calledVaikur:Jtha planets, and on these planets Lord Narayar)a is worshiped with aweand veneration. On these planets the santa-rasa is prevalent, and some of thedevotees are also connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in thedasya-rasa, the mellow of servitorship. As far as the mellow of fraternity is concerned,the Vaikur:Jtha rasa is represented by gaurava-sakhya, friendship in aweand veneration. The other fraternity rasa is exhibited as visrambha (friendship inequality), and this is found in the Goloka Vrndavana planet. Above that is serviceto the Lord in vatsa/ya-rasa (paternal love), and above all is the relationship withthe Lord in the madhurya-rasa (conjugal love). These five rasas are fully exhibitedin the spiritual world in one's relationship with the Lord. Therefore in the spiritualworld the bhakti-lata creeper finds its resting place at the lotus feet of Krr:Ja.TEXT 155 ntt i •ti'f c;- I-1 fii'!J