Verse 2.4.94

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.94:

इत्थं तु वैभवाभावे वैभवं वैभवेऽपि च ।
अकिञ्चनत्वं घटते वैकुण्ठे तत्-स्वभावतः ॥ ९४ ॥

itthaṃ tu vaibhavābhāve vaibhavaṃ vaibhave'pi ca |
akiñcanatvaṃ ghaṭate vaikuṇṭhe tat-svabhāvataḥ || 94 ||

ittham–thus; tu–indeed; vaibhava–of opulence; abhāve–in the absence; vaibhavam–opulence; vaibhave–in opulence; api–still; ca–and; akiñcanatvam–the state of detachment; ghaṭate–happens; vaikuṇṭhe–in Vaikuṇṭha; tat-svabhāvataḥ–by the nature of that (abode).

Therefore, even when the opulences in Vaikuṇṭha do not manifest themselves, they are all still existing there, and when they do become manifest, the residents of Vaikuṇṭha remain unattached and unaffected. This is the extraordinary nature of Vaikuṇṭha.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “Even when the opulences in Vaikuṇṭha remain unmanifest, they are still present, being contained within the residents of Vaikuṇṭha and always under their control. Furthermore, when the opulences expand, the detachment of the residents does not diminish. Because the residents of Vaikuṇṭha are transcendental–full of eternity, knowledge, and bliss–the opulences or the lack of opulences are factually nondifferent from them.

“How is this possible? This happens due to the extraordinary nature of Vaikuṇṭha. All the opulence, the associates, and so on of Vaikuṇṭha are indeed fully transcendental–sac-cid-ānanda–and so they all share the same nature. However, as previously explained, the residents experience varieties of bliss from the different ways in which they serve Śrī Bhagavān, and therefore the opulence seems to be variegated.”