Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 - Chapter 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 32 Sanskrit: तद्वर्षपुरुषा भगवन्तं ब्रह्मरूपिणं सकर्मकेण कर्मणाऽऽराधयन्तीदं चोदाहरन्ति ॥ ३२ ॥ ITRANS: tad-varṣa-puruṣā bhagavantaṁ brahma-rūpiṇaṁ sakarmakeṇa karmaṇārādhayantīdaṁ codāharanti. Translation: For the fulfillment of material desires, the inhabitants of this tract of land worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead as represented by Lord Brahmā. They offer prayers to the Lord as follows. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 33 Sanskrit: यत्तत्कर्ममयं लिङ्गं ब्रह्मलिङ्गं जनोऽर्चयेत् ।एकान्तमद्वयं शान्तं तस्मै भगवते नम इति ॥ ३३ ॥ ITRANS: yat tat karmamayaṁ liṅgaṁbrahma-liṅgaṁ jano ’rcayetekāntam advayaṁ śāntaṁtasmai bhagavate nama iti Translation: Lord Brahmā is known as karma-maya, the form of ritualistic ceremonies, because by performing ritualistic ceremonies one may attain his position and because the Vedic ritualistic hymns become manifest from him. He is devoted to the Supreme Personality of Godhead without deviation, and therefore in one sense he is not different from the Lord....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 34 Sanskrit: ऋषिरुवाचतत: परस्ताल्लोकालोकनामाचलो लोकालोकयोरन्तराले परित उपक्षिप्त: ॥ ३४ ॥ ITRANS: tataḥ parastāl lokāloka-nāmācalo lokālokayor antarāle parita upakṣiptaḥ. Translation: Thereafter, beyond the ocean of sweet water and fully surrounding it, is a mountain named Lokāloka, which divides the countries that are full of sunlight from those not lit by the sun. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 35 Sanskrit: यावन्मानसोत्तरमेर्वोरन्तरं तावती भूमि: काञ्चन्यन्याऽऽदर्शतलोपमा यस्यां प्रहित: पदार्थो नकथञ्चित्पुन:प्रत्युपलभ्यते तस्मात्सर्वसत्त्वपरिहृतासीत् ॥ ३५ ॥ ITRANS: yāvan mānasottara-mervor antaraṁ tāvatī bhūmiḥ kāñcany anyādarśa-talopamā yasyāṁ prahitaḥ padārtho na kathañcit punaḥ pratyupalabhyate tasmāt sarva-sattva-parihṛtāsīt. Translation: Beyond the ocean of sweet water is a tract of land as broad as the area between the middle of Mount Sumeru and the boundary of Mānasottara Mountain. In that tract of land there are many living beings....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 36 Sanskrit: लोकालोक इति समाख्या यदनेनाचलेन लोकालोकस्यान्तर्वर्तिनावस्थाप्यते ॥ ३६ ॥ ITRANS: lokāloka iti samākhyā yad anenācalena lokālokasyāntarvar-tināvasthāpyate. Translation: Between the lands inhabited by living entities and those that are uninhabited stands the great mountain which separates the two and which is therefore celebrated as Lokāloka. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 37 Sanskrit: स लोकत्रयान्ते परित ईश्वरेण विहितो यस्मात्सूर्यादीनां ध्रुवापवर्गाणां ज्योतिर्गणानां गभस्तयोऽर्वाचीनांस्त्रींल्लोकानावितन्वाना न कदाचित्पराचीना भवितुमुत्सहन्ते तावदुन्नहनायाम: ॥ ३७ ॥ ITRANS: sa loka-trayānte parita īśvareṇa vihito yasmāt sūryādīnāṁ dhruvāpavargāṇāṁ jyotir-gaṇānāṁ gabhastayo ’rvācīnāṁs trīḻ lokān āvitanvānā na kadācit parācīnā bhavitum utsahante tāvad unnahanāyāmaḥ. Translation: By the supreme will of Kṛṣṇa, the mountain known as Lokāloka has been installed as the outer border of the three worlds — Bhūrloka, Bhuvarloka and Svarloka — to control the rays of the sun throughout the universe....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 38 Sanskrit: एतावाँल्लोकविन्यासो मानलक्षणसंस्थाभिर्विचिन्तित: कविभि: स तु पञ्चाशत्कोटिगणितस्य भूगोलस्य तुरीयभागोऽयं लोकालोकाचल: ॥ ३८ ॥ ITRANS: etāvāḻ loka-vinyāso māna-lakṣaṇa-saṁsthābhir vicintitaḥ kavibhiḥ sa tu pañcāśat-koṭi-gaṇitasya bhū-golasya turīya-bhāgo ’yaṁ lokālokācalaḥ. Translation: Learned scholars who are free from mistakes, illusions and propensities to cheat have thus described the planetary systems and their particular symptoms, measurements and locations. With great deliberation, they have established the truth that the distance between Sumeru and the mountain known as Lokāloka is one fourth of the diameter of the universe — or, in other words, 125,000,000 yojanas [1 billion miles]....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 39 Sanskrit: तदुपरिष्टाच्चतसृष्वाशास्वात्मयोनिनाखिलजगद्गुरुणाधिनिवेशिता ये द्विरदपतय ऋषभ: पुष्करचूडो वामनोऽपराजित इति सकललोकस्थितिहेतव: ॥ ३९ ॥ ITRANS: tad-upariṣṭāc catasṛṣv āśāsvātma-yoninākhila-jagad-guruṇādhiniveśitā ye dvirada-pataya ṛṣabhaḥ puṣkaracūḍo vāmano ’parājita iti sakala-loka-sthiti-hetavaḥ. Translation: On the top of Lokāloka Mountain are the four gaja-patis, the best of elephants, which were established in the four directions by Lord Brahmā, the supreme spiritual master of the entire universe. The names of those elephants are Ṛṣabha, Puṣkaracūḍa, Vāmana and Aparājita....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: तेषां स्वविभूतीनां लोकपालानां च विविधवीर्योपबृंहणाय भगवान् परममहापुरुषो महाविभूतिपतिरन्तर्याम्यात्मनो विशुद्धसत्त्वं धर्मज्ञानवैराग्यैश्वर्याद्यष्टमहासिद्ध्युपलक्षणं विष्वक्सेनादिभि: स्वपार्षदप्रवरै: परिवारितो निजवरायुधोपशोभितैर्निजभुजदण्डै: सन्धारय-माणस्तस्मिन् गिरिवरे समन्तात्सकललोकस्वस्तय आस्ते ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: teṣāṁ sva-vibhūtīnāṁ loka-pālānāṁ ca vividha-vīryopabṛṁhaṇāya bhagavān parama-mahā-puruṣo mahā-vibhūti-patir antaryāmy ātmano viśuddha-sattvaṁ dharma-jñāna-vairāgyaiśvaryādy-aṣṭa-mahā-siddhy-upalakṣaṇaṁ viṣvaksenādibhiḥ sva-pārṣada-pravaraiḥ parivārito nija-varāyudhopaśobhitair nija-bhuja-daṇḍaiḥ sandhārayamāṇas tasmin giri-vare samantāt sakala-loka-svastaya āste. Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master of all transcendental opulences and the master of the spiritual sky....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 41 Sanskrit: आकल्पमेवं वेषं गत एष भगवानात्मयोगमायया विरचितविविधलोकयात्रागोपीयायेत्यर्थ: ॥ ४१ ॥ ITRANS: ākalpam evaṁ veṣaṁ gata eṣa bhagavān ātma-yogamāyayā viracita-vividha-loka-yātrā-gopīyāyety arthaḥ. Translation: The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The Lord exhibits those forms to maintain all the varied planets created by His personal potency, yoga-māyā. Purport: In Bhagavad-gītā (4....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 42 Sanskrit: योऽन्तर्विस्तार एतेन ह्यलोकपरिमाणं च व्याख्यातं यद्ब‍‌हिर्लोकालोकाचलात् । तत: परस्ताद्योगेश्वरगतिं विशुद्धामुदाहरन्ति ॥ ४२ ॥ ITRANS: yo ’ntar-vistāra etena hy aloka-parimāṇaṁ ca vyākhyātaṁ yad bahir lokālokācalāt; tataḥ parastād yogeśvara-gatiṁ viśuddhām udāharanti. Translation: My dear King, outside Lokāloka Mountain is the tract of land known as Aloka-varṣa, which extends for the same breadth as the area within the mountain — in other words, 125,000,000 yojanas [one billion miles]....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 43 Sanskrit: अण्डमध्यगत: सूर्यो द्यावाभूम्योर्यदन्तरम् ।सूर्याण्डगोलयोर्मध्ये कोट्य: स्यु: पञ्चविंशति: ॥ ४३ ॥ ITRANS: aṇḍa-madhya-gataḥ sūryodyāv-ābhūmyor yad antaramsūryāṇḍa-golayor madhyekoṭyaḥ syuḥ pañca-viṁśatiḥ Translation: The sun is situated [vertically] in the middle of the universe, in the area between Bhūrloka and Bhuvarloka, which is called antarikṣa, outer space. The distance between the sun and the circumference of the universe is twenty-five koṭi yojanas [two billion miles]....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 44 Sanskrit: मृतेऽण्ड एष एतस्मिन् यदभूत्ततो मार्तण्ड इति व्यपदेश: ।हिरण्यगर्भ इति यद्धिरण्याण्डसमुद्भ‍व: ॥ ४४ ॥ ITRANS: mṛte ’ṇḍa eṣa etasmin yad abhūt tato mārtaṇḍa iti vyapadeśaḥ; hiraṇyagarbha iti yad dhiraṇyāṇḍa-samudbhavaḥ. Translation: The sun-god is also known as Vairāja, the total material body for all living entities. Because he entered this dull egg of the universe at the time of creation, he is also called Mārtaṇḍa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 45 Sanskrit: सूर्येण हि विभज्यन्ते दिश: खं द्यौर्मही भिदा ।स्वर्गापवर्गौ नरका रसौकांसिच सर्वश: ॥ ४५ ॥ ITRANS: sūryeṇa hi vibhajyantediśaḥ khaṁ dyaur mahī bhidāsvargāpavargau narakārasaukāṁsi ca sarvaśaḥ Translation: O King, the sun-god and the sun planet divide all the directions of the universe. It is only because of the presence of the sun that we can understand what the sky, the higher planets, this world and the lower planets are....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 46 Sanskrit: देवतिर्यङ्‍मनुष्याणां सरीसृपसवीरुधाम् ।सर्वजीवनिकायानां सूर्य आत्माद‍ृगीश्वर: ॥ ४६ ॥ ITRANS: deva-tiryaṅ-manuṣyāṇāṁsarīsṛpa-savīrudhāmsarva-jīva-nikāyānāṁsūrya ātmā dṛg-īśvaraḥ Translation: All living entities, including demigods, human beings, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, creepers and trees, depend upon the heat and light given by the sun-god from the sun planet. Furthermore, it is because of the sun’s presence that all living entities can see, and therefore he is called dṛg-īśvara, the Personality of Godhead presiding over sight....