Brahma Vaivarta Purana
Description of Goloka
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
140.-144. ...and one billion beautiful asramas of they who, purified by austerities in a hundred births, became very firm devotees on earth in Bharata-varsa, awake or asleep rapt in meditation on Lord Hari, and chanting “Radha-Krsna! Krsna!” day and night, asramas made of many jewels, filled with many delightful things, splendid with flower couches, flower garlands, white camaras, jewel mirrors, many sapphires, curtains of fine cloth, and roofs decorated with many domes made of priceless jewels. 145.After gazing at this wonderful place, the (three) demigods went a little further and happily saw a beautiful and eternal banyan tree,... 146. ...five yojanas across and twice as many high, with a thousand trunks and countless branches,... 147. ...and beautiful with jewel platforms and many ripe jewel fruits. At the root of that tree the demigods saw many cowherd boys who had forms like Lord Krsna,... 148. ...and who were dressed in yellow garments, attached to playing, handsome, decorated with jewel ornaments, and all of whose limbs were anointed with sandal paste. 149.The demigods gazed at these close associates of Lord Hari and then looked far away at the beautiful royal path,... 150. ..which was paved with sapphires, rubies, diamonds, rucaka jewels, and jewels the colour of red sindura,... |
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