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Canto 2 · Chapter 2: The Lord in the Heart

2.2.23 2.2.25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 2.2.24

वैश्वानरं याति विहायसा गत:

सुषुम्णया ब्रह्मपथेन शोचिषा ।

विधूतकल्कोऽथ हरेरुदस्तात्

प्रयाति चक्रं नृप शैशुमारम् ॥ २४ ॥

vaiśvānaraṁ yāti vihāyasā gataḥ

suṣumṇayā brahma-pathena śociṣā

vidhūta-kalko ’tha harer udastāt

prayāti cakraṁ nṛpa śaiśumāram

Translation

O King, when such a mystic passes over the Milky Way by the illuminating Suṣumṇā to reach the highest planet, Brahmaloka, he goes first to Vaiśvānara, the planet of the deity of fire, wherein he becomes completely cleansed of all contaminations, and thereafter he still goes higher, to the circle of Śiśumāra, to relate with Lord Hari, the Personality of Godhead.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Purification on the Path to Lord Hari

1
On the journey toward Brahmaloka, the mystic passes over the Milky Way by the illuminating Suṣumṇā. Brahmaloka is described as the highest planet of the universe.
2
The mystic first reaches Vaiśvānara-loka, where the demigod controls fire. There he becomes cleansed of sins acquired through contact with the material world.
3
He then proceeds higher to the Śiśumāra circle to relate with Lord Hari, the Personality of Godhead. The purport identifies this circle with the polar star and its surroundings, where Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has His local residential planet.

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