puruá¹£aḥ sa paraḥ pÄrtha
bhaktyÄ labhyas tv ananyayÄ
yasyÄntaḥ-sthÄni bhÅ«tÄni
yena sarvam idaá¹ tatam
puruá¹£aḥ - the Supreme Personality; saḥ - He; paraḥ - the Supreme, than whom no one is greater; pÄrtha - O son of Pá¹›thÄ; bhaktyÄ - by devotional service; labhyaḥ - can be achieved; tu - but; ananyayÄ - unalloyed, undeviating; yasya - whom; antaḥ-sthÄni - within; bhÅ«tÄni - all of this material manifestation; yena - by whom; sarvam - all; idam - whatever we can see; tatam - is pervaded.
It is here clearly stated that the supreme destination, from which there is no return, is the abode of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person. The Brahma-saá¹hitÄ describes this supreme abode as Änanda-cinmaya-rasa, a place where everything is full of spiritual bliss. All the variegatedness manifest there is of the quality of spiritual bliss – nothing there is material. That variegatedness is expanded as the spiritual expansion of the Supreme Godhead Himself, for the manifestation there is totally of the spiritual energy, as explained in Chapter Seven. As far as this material world is concerned, although the Lord is always in His supreme abode, He is nonetheless all-pervading by His material energy. So by His spiritual and material energies He is present everywhere – both in the material and in the spiritual universes. YasyÄntaḥ-sthÄni means that everything is sustained within Him, within either His spiritual or material energy. The Lord is all-pervading by these two energies.
To enter Kṛṣṇa’s supreme abode or the innumerable Vaikuṇá¹ha planets is possible only by bhakti, devotional service, as clearly indicated here by the word bhaktyÄ. No other process can help one attain that supreme abode. The Vedas (GopÄla-tÄpanÄ« Upaniá¹£ad 1.21) also describe the supreme abode and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Eko vaśī sarva-gaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ. In that abode there is only one Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose name is Kṛṣṇa. He is the supreme merciful Deity, and although situated there as one He has expanded Himself into millions and millions of plenary expansions. The Vedas compare the Lord to a tree standing still yet bearing many varieties of fruits, flowers and changing leaves. The plenary expansions of the Lord who preside over the Vaikuṇá¹ha planets are four-armed, and they are known by a variety of names – Puruá¹£ottama, Trivikrama, KeÅ›ava, MÄdhava, Aniruddha, HṛṣīkeÅ›a, Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa, Pradyumna, ÅšrÄ«dhara, VÄsudeva, DÄmodara, JanÄrdana, NÄrÄyaṇa, VÄmana, PadmanÄbha, etc.
The Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.37) also conï¬rms that although the Lord is always in the supreme abode, Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, He is all-pervading, so that everything is going on nicely (goloka eva nivasaty akhilÄtma-bhÅ«taḥ). As stated in the Vedas (ÅšvetÄÅ›vatara Upaniá¹£ad 6.8), parÄsya Å›aktir vividhaiva Å›rÅ«yate/ svÄbhÄvikÄ« jñÄna-bala-kriyÄ ca: His energies are so expansive that they systematically conduct everything in the cosmic manifestation without a flaw, although the Supreme Lord is far, far away.