Concept

Concentric Dhāmas around Śvetadvīpa

A golden lotus wreathed in flame, evoking the concentric sacred dhāmas around Śvetadvīpa.

The chart uses a second arrangement outside Śvetadvīpashvay-tuh-DVEE-puhThe quadrangular region surrounding Goloka's central lotus, divided into four symbolic sections.: Mathurā, Jagannātha Purī, and Dvārakā are shown as concentric sacred regions. This is not a replacement for the three Kṛṣṇaloka divisions. It is an additional visual layer used to gather several sacred dhāmas into one chart.

Concentric regions around the Śvetadvīpashvay-tuh-DVEE-puhThe quadrangular region surrounding Goloka's central lotus, divided into four symbolic sections. complex

It shows the tradition distinguishes between "mood" (the Gokula/Mathurā/Dvārakā of feeling) and "place" (this concentric geography) — two different kinds of map layered on the same territory.

It helps to keep this separate from the Gokula–Mathurā–Dvārakā teaching. One is a theological division of Kṛṣṇa's līlā; the other is a visual geography used by this poster.

Source: Standard Gauḍīya/ISKCON Goloka-Chart explanatory tradition · Chart / explanatory tradition

Mathurā
The city of appearance — where the eternal chooses to become historical.
Jagannātha PurīTied to Caitanya Mahāprabhu's Purī pastimes
Where Caitanya Mahāprabhu's own pastimes anchor devotion in a specific, visitable place — the abstract made walkable.
Dvārakā
The outermost ring here — majesty holding the perimeter.

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