Prabhupada, Bombay, December 14, 1974: […] Generally we have got experience that a mango tree, if you desire mango, you can get from the mango tree. If you desire coconut, then you can get from the coconut tree. But you cannot get coconut from the mango tree, and mango from the coconut tree. But there are trees where you go, you can get both mango, and banana, and coconut, and everything you like. That is called kalpa-vrksa. We have no experience in this material world, but there is a tree. That is not in this material world, that is in the spiritual world. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa- laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29] So we have to take knowledge from Vedic, Vedic scripture. Then the description of the spiritual world is there, what is that? Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu. They have got houses, they are made of touchstone. Here it is made of bricks and stone, ordinary stone. But there is another stone which is called touchstone. If you touch it with the iron, the iron becomes gold. That is called touchstone, paresapatha. So the spiritual world, all the houses are made of this touchstone. You can take the Tata iron factory and touch it there. It will be very profitable. Yes. Or go there and bring some touchstone as these moon exploiters. They go and they have brought some stone, and some sand. But if you go to Krishnaloka you can bring some touchstone and make the whole Tata iron factory gold. These informations are there. If you have got capacity, then you will go and bring it.
So in the spiritual world, the houses are made of touchstone cintamani-prakara-sadmasu, cintamani, the touchstone. Sanskrit name is cintamani. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa [Bs. 5.29], and the trees, there are trees. But not like this, that you get coconut from coconut tree, and mango from mango tree. But cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa [Bs. 5.29]. There any fruit you require, or even kacauri, you can get. That is called kalpa-vrksa. There are trees like that. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa [Bs. 5.29], and maybe one or two, no. Laksavrtesu, there is a nice garden, or jungle you can say. There are many, many. Just like you have got experience here in this material world. If you go to the forest, you get so many trees, congested. In Africa I have seen. Very, very high, long trees and very congested, jungle. So prakara laksavrtesu, similarly in the spiritual world, there are trees of this kalpa-vrksa, where you can get anything you desire.
Laksavrtesu surabhir, and surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. There Krishna is very fond of cows. There is Krishna’s another name is Gopala. Gopala means who tends cows. Go means cow and pala means one who tends. Therefore Krishna’s another name is Gopala. Govinda. Govinda means one who gives pleasure to the cows or Govinda means one who gives pleasure to the senses. So Krishna’s name are different. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. There Krishna is tending this surabhi. Surabhi cow means, that is also wonderful, spiritual. You can milk cow, milk from the cows, as many times as you like. Just like here in the, we have got experience, we can take milk from the cows morning and evening, not more than that. But there you can milk the cows whenever you like, and you can draw milk as much as you like. That is called surabhi cow. The trees are like that, the cows are like that, but there are houses, there are forests, jungle trees, cows, water, everything, but they are all spiritual. All spiritual, therefore there is one. Here is also one, because everything material. Whatever, either you take cow’s body or your body, or tree’s body, or any body, what it is made of? Ksitir ap teja marut vyoma, the earth, water, air, fire, and sky, that’s all. Here it is all one, but, and there also it is one, but there it is all spiritual, and here it is all material. That is the difference.
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Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.2
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, December 14, 1974
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