Hindu PantheonRealm
Vaikuntha
The eternal abode of Lord Vishnu and Lakshmi, a celestial realm of infinite bliss beyond the material universe.
About Vaikuntha
Vishnu's unmeasured court
Vaikuntha is Vishnu and Lakshmi's realm beyond the ordinary worlds in the Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana. Souls who reach it do not fall back into rebirth in the usual Puranic promise. Description is jewelled and courtly: halls, attendants, the god on Shesha. It has no terrestrial lat/long. There is no excavated gate. Treat it as a theological address, not a lost island. Rama's Ayodhya and Krishna's Dvarka are earthly; Vaikuntha is the unfallen home.
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- Bhagavata Purana (Vaikuntha descriptions)
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