tabe yÄya tad-upari 'goloka-vá¹›ndÄvana'
'kṛṣṇa-caraṇa'-kalpa-vá¹›ká¹£e kare Ärohaṇa
tabe - thereafter; yÄya - goes; tat-upari - to the top of that (the spiritual sky); goloka-vá¹›ndÄvana - to the planet known as Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana where Kṛṣṇa lives; kṛṣṇa-caraṇa - of the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa; kalpa-vá¹›ká¹£e - on the desire tree; kare Ärohaṇa - climbs.
“Being situated in one’s heart and being watered by Å›ravaṇa-kÄ«rtana, the bhakti creeper grows more and more. In this way it attains the shelter of the desire tree of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally situated in the planet known as Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, in the topmost region of the spiritual sky.
In the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.37) it is said:
Änanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhÄvitÄbhis
tÄbhir ya eva nija-rÅ«patayÄ kalÄbhiḥ
goloka eva nivasaty akhilÄtma-bhÅ«to
govindam Ädi-puruá¹£aá¹ tam ahaá¹ bhajÄmi
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord. He resides in His own realm, Goloka, with RÄdhÄ, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [hlÄdinÄ«]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.†In the spiritual world, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, has expanded Himself by His spiritual potency. He has His eternal form of bliss and knowledge (sac-cid-Änanda-vigraha). Everything in the Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana planet is a spiritual expansion of sac-cid-Änanda. Everyone there is of the same potency — Änanda-cinmaya-rasa. The relationship between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His servitor is cinmaya-rasa. Kṛṣṇa and His entourage and paraphernalia are of the same cinmaya potency. In this way the Supreme Personality of Godhead is expanded throughout the spiritual world, and when that cinmaya-rasa potency expands through the material potency, it becomes all-pervading. The idea is that although the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists on His own planet, Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, He is also present everywhere. Aṇá¸Äntara-stha-paramÄṇu-cayÄntara-stham. He is present within all the universes, although they are innumerable, and He is also present within the atom. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhÅ«tÄnÄá¹ há¹›d-deÅ›e ’rjuna tiá¹£á¹hati: He is also present within the heart of all living entities. This is His all-pervasive potency.
Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana is the highest planet in the spiritual world. In order to go to the spiritual world after penetrating the covering of the material universe, one must penetrate Brahma-loka, the spiritual effulgence. Then one can come to the Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana planet. There are also other planets in the spiritual world, called Vaikuṇá¹ha planets, and on these planets Lord NÄrÄyaṇa is worshiped with awe and veneration. On these planets Å›Änta-rasa is prevalent, and some of the devotees are also connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in dÄsya-rasa, the mellow of servitorship. As far as the mellow of fraternity is concerned, in Vaikuṇá¹ha this rasa is represented by gaurava-sakhya, friendship in awe and veneration. The other fraternity rasa, exhibited as viÅ›rambha (friendship in equality), is found in the Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana planet. Above that is service to the Lord in vÄtsalya-rasa (parental love), and above all is the relationship with the Lord in the mÄdhurya-rasa (conjugal love). These five rasas are fully exhibited in the spiritual world in one’s relationship with the Lord. Therefore in the spiritual world the bhakti creeper finds its resting place at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
