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TEXT 21 avyakto 'ksara ity uktas
SYNONYMS  avyaktah--unmanifested;
aksarah--infallible; iti--thus; uktah--said; tam--that
which; ahuh--is known; paramam--ultimate; gatim--destination;
yam--that which; prapya--gaining; na--never; nivartante--comes
back; tat dhama--that abode; paramam--supreme; mama--Mine.
TRANSLATION That supreme
abode is called unmanifested and infallible, and it is the supreme destination.
When one goes there, he never comes back. That is My supreme abode.
PURPORT The supreme
abode of the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is described in the Brahma-samhita
as cintamani-dhama, a place where all desires are fulfilled. The
supreme abode of Lord Krsna known as Goloka Vrndavana is full of palaces
made of touchstone. There are also trees which are called "desire trees,"
that supply any type of eatable upon demand, and there are cows known as
surabhi cows which supply a limitless supply of milk. In this abode,
the Lord is served by hundreds of thousands of goddesses of fortune (Laksmis),
and He is called Govinda, the primal Lord and the cause of all causes.
The Lord is accustomed to blow His flute (venum kvanantam). His
transcendental form is the most attractive in all the worlds--His eyes
are like the lotus petals and the color of His body is like clouds. He
is so attractive that His beauty excels that of thousands of Cupids. He
wears saffron cloth, a garland around His neck and a peacock feather in
His hair. In the Gita Lord Krsna gives only a small hint of His
personal abode (Goloka Vrndavana) which is the supermost planet in the
spiritual kingdom. A vivid description is given in the Brahma-samhita.
Vedic literature states that there is nothing superior to the abode of
the Supreme Godhead, and that that abode is the ultimate destination. When
one attains to it, he never returns to the material world. Krsna's supreme
abode and Krsna Himself are nondifferent, being of the same quality. On
this earth, Vrndavana, ninety miles southeast of Delhi, is a replica of
that supreme Goloka Vrndavana located in the spiritual sky. When Krsna
descended on this earth He sported on that particular tract of land known
as Vrndavana in the district of Mathura, India.
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