of incense and fragrant resin fill the rooms and escape from the windows. The peacocks, on the steps of the threshold, seeing the smoke, think they see clouds, and dance in a jubilant manner. The maids are innumerable, all adorned with gold necklaces, bracelets and marvelous saris. Innumerable servants, beautifully dressed, in capes and turbans, and adorned with earrings set with jewels. All this world is busy with the work of the house.
The Lord gives himself to his devotees, and they give themselves to Him; They belong to each other. Reciprocally, holy beings transcend the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance, just as the Lord. Needless to say. But we speak, of course, of pure holy beings. The holy, pure, unmixed beings cleave to the Lord, as the Lord attaches himself to them, in a purely spiritual way, in a perfect sense of reciprocity. The holy beings gain from participating in the sublime entertainment of the Lord, purely spiritual entertainment.
The pure being serves the Lord solely for love, unmixed love, and it may be that in the performance of his devotional service he forgets the supreme position of the Lord. The Lord receives with even greater joy the service of love of his devotees when he is precisely accomplished in spontaneity, out of pure affection, without any trace of formal respect. In general, the Lord receives from his devotees a reverential adoration, but He has a special joy in seeing his devotee consider him, by pure love, as his inferior. And it is in this spirit that his exchanges with his pure devotees take place in his original kingdom of Goloka Vrndavana. There, Krishna's friends consider Him one of them; they do not see it as an object of veneration. As for the "parents" of the Lord, they see him as a mere child, and he accepts their punishment with better grace than the prayers of celestial beings. In the same way, He feels a greater pleasure at being reproached with love by the gopis than at hearing the Vedic hymns.
The Divine Person in his first, original form, the ultimate beneficiary, evolves when He comes into this world for the good, protection and ultimate progress of the entire galaxy. As for the members of the dynasty in which the Lord appears, they enjoy life in the manner of the inhabitants of the spiritual world.
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is present in all galaxies.
The Supreme Lord is present in each galaxy in two forms: those of Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. The latter has his own planet at the northern end of the galaxy. There lies a great ocean of milk, (spiritual) where lives the Lord, lying on the layer that forms for Him Ananta, emanation of Baladeva, first full emanation of Krishna.
Beyond the galaxy and the seven layers of matter that cover it, quite beyond our vision, is the Causal Ocean, (also spiritual) in which floats all the galaxies, like ovoid balloons. Then, beyond the Causal Ocean, lies the limitless expanse of the spiritual world, generally known as the radiance emanating from the body of the Supreme Spiritual Being, Krishna. But in this light are bathed innumerable spiritual planets,