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The Vedic Cosmos is drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books. Read them in full in Haribol, free, on the web and on your phone.
About the Vedic Cosmos
A picture of the universe as Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes it
From Goloka Vṛndāvana and the spiritual sky, through the Causal Ocean, into one universe and down to Bhārata-varṣa; through the cycles of time; and from the soul in the heart out to where the soul goes next.
Every place, number and date here is quoted from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books, with its reference. Where his books don’t say something, the page says so, and where two of them differ, both are quoted. The drawings are our own. It is a sketch, still growing.
Haribol: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books
All of his books, with his letters and talks, to read and search: the verse, its translation and purport, the dictionary of Sanskrit words, notes and bookmarks, in many languages. Every “Read in context” link in the cosmos opens the verse there.
Where to read about the cosmos
The chapters these pages draw on most
- Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Fifth CantoBhū-maṇḍala, Jambūdvīpa, the sun and planets, Śiśumāra, the worlds below (chapters 16–26)
- Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Third CantoCreation, the elements, Lord Kapila’s teachings, and time (chapters 10–11, 26)
- Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Second CantoThe universal form, and the ten subjects of the Bhāgavatam (chapters 1, 5, 10)
- Śrī Brahma-saṁhitāGoloka and the Lord’s effulgence
- Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5The spiritual sky, the Causal Ocean and the puruṣa-avatāras
- Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20The Lord’s forms and avatāras, and the twenty-four forms in Vaikuṇṭha
- Bhagavad-gītā As It IsThe soul, the Supersoul, and where the soul goes next
The idea of a chart of the realms was inspired by ISKCON Salem’s Goloka Chart.
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