Central Vaikuṇṭha City

The chart depicts a central spiritual city with jewel-like walls, gates, palaces, vimānasvimānasvi-MAH-nuhzCelestial aerial palaces or vehicles described in the tradition., attendants, and a central yogapīṭhayogapīṭhaYOH-guh-PEE-tuhThe sacred central platform where Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa's intimate pastimes occur.. Its eight-petalled lotus is associated in the chart explanation with the Gāyatrī mantra and the Lord with Lakṣmī.

Centre of the Vaikuṇṭha lotus/city diagram

Tying the eight-petalled plan to the Gāyatrī mantra is the diagram's actual claim: the city's layout is meant to be read as a form of the mantra, not as architecture that happens to be described in detail.

A city built out of vimānas, gates, and a working court doesn't read like an abstraction. Even "symbolic" architecture, described this specifically, asks to be pictured as real.