SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 43

goloka-namni nija-dhamni tale cha tasya
devi mahesa-hari-dhamasu tesu tesu
te te prabhava-nichaya vihitas cha yena
govindam adi purusam tam aham bhajami [43]

Translation: First there is Devi-dhama, then Mahesa-dhama, and above Mahesa-dhama is Hari-dhama; and above all is His own home, Goloka. He who has ordained the appropriate powers pertaining to each and every one of those abodes—that Primeval Lord, Govinda, do I worship.

Purport: Goloka-dhama is the abode situated above all others. Seeing that above, from the point of his home ground, Brahma is describing all the successive realms. First is Devi-dhama, which refers to the material world; in this realm the fourteen planes headed by Satyaloka are situated. Above this is Siva-dhama; in that plane, a portion known as Mahakala-dhama is pervaded with darkness. On the other side of that portion of darkness is the immensely effulgent plane of Sadarivaloka. Above that is Hari-dhama, or the spiritual world, Vaikunthaloka.

The power of Devi-dhama as Maya’s majesty, and the power of Siva-dhama as time and the aggregate of material elements, are present in those planes as the power of the hazy aspect (abhasa) of the Lord’s plenary expansion (svamsa), reflected as separated particles (vibhinnamsa). But the power of Hari-dhama is its transcendental majesty, and the power of all-sweetness and charm of Goloka is the mainstay of all majesties. All these powers in each of these abodes are ordained by the direct and indirect might of Govinda.

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