just as the sun is always traversing one of the two hemispheres, sometimes in the East, sometimes in the West.
Just as the sun appears in the morning and rises gradually to the meridian and then sets even as it rises in another hemisphere, the disappearance of the Lord in one galaxy corresponds to the beginning of his many diversions in another. To be more precise, as soon as an entertainment ends on earth, it begins to manifest itself elsewhere. And that’s how his eternal entertainment continues unabated. We know that the sun rises once every twenty-four hours; similarly, the entertainment of God becomes visible in a given galaxy once every day of Brahma the demiurge and first being created. But wherever the Lord is, all of his wonderful entertainment takes place as the scriptures reveal, at regular intervals.
The Lord, who on Earth had manifested his eternal form to all, disappeared by hiding it from the sight of those who, for not having accomplished the required austerities, could not see it as it is.
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The pure soul still lives in the abode of God, since its body is the divine temple. The Supreme Lord says:
“Living beings undergo, in all galaxies, and life after life, the consequences of their own self-interested acts. Among them, some can be influenced by the contact of pure souls and having thus developed a certain taste for the service of devotion, they get to participate in it. This initial desire represents the seed of devotional service, and it is advisable for those who have an incomparable fortune to receive this seed, to plant it deep in their hearts. Then, just as one sprinkles a seed for it to develop, the holy being will have to cultivate it by listening and chanting the Holy Names and the Lord's entertainment. Thus nourished, the seed gradually turns into an ivy, and the holy being, acting like a gardener, continues to water it by listening and the constant song of the glories of the Lord. Ivy comes to grow so much that it crosses the entire material galaxy and enters the spiritual world, continuing its race towards higher and higher spheres, until it reaches the planet of the Supreme Lord “Goloka Vrindavana”. The holy gardener is therefore in contact with the abode of the Lord even though he lives in the material galaxy, thanks to the devotional service that he offers to him by the simple fact of listening and singing his divine glories. Just as an ordinary ivy leans on a tree, more powerful than it, the devotional service ivy, nourished by the holy being, finds refuge with the Lord and becomes attached to it. Thus fixed, it begins to