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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Size of Goloka

Goloka is spherical and a crore Yojana in diameter. (Crore = 10 million; Yojana = 9 miles.) That is the heavenly abode of RadhaKrishna, where there is an eternal banyan tree. There are several wading pools. A wish tree provides shade for the palace of jewels (Ratna Mandir). In the center is the jeweled throne with an eight petal lotus as the seat. The palace grounds abound in wish-giving cows (Surabhi) and flowers which suffuse the place with fragrance. Krishna sits on the petalled jewel throne. All invited visitors by convention receive Mantra of Krishna from Radha and morph into females by taking a dip into a gender-changing and memory-erasing pool, Amrta.