Place

Central Vaikuṇṭha City

Vaikuṇṭha's jeweled central city, its ramparts and gate towers rising above an eight-petalled lotus at its heart.

The chart depicts a central spiritual city with jewel-like walls, gates, palaces, vimānasvi-MAH-nuhzCelestial aerial palaces or vehicles described in the tradition., attendants, and a central yogapīṭhaYOH-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

Symbolic central city within the chart's Vaikuṇṭha presentation

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.

Source: Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta material reproduced in the chart · Chart / explanatory tradition

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