Svarga in the Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam: Heaven; the realm of the gods. A blessed but impermanent destination — when the merit that earned it is exhausted, the soul falls back into rebirth.
Heaven; the realm of the gods. A blessed but impermanent destination — when the merit that earned it is exhausted, the soul falls back into rebirth.
On this site, Svarga is treated as a reading aid rather than a final doctrinal definition: use it to move from a question about a term into the chapters where the term actually appears.
…“O Villain! How can you go and live in the Heavens in this your human body?” I was very anxious to go to the Svarga (Heaven) so I again spoke to him :-- “O Sinless One! I will then have the excellent sacrifice done by another priest.” Hearing this, Vas’i st ha Deva…
…es the Sun shine; It is the Truth that has stationed this Earth in its position; what to speak more, even the Svarga is established on Truth; so the greatest Dharma lies in Truth. If the fruit of the thousand As’vamedhas be held in one pan and Truth be held on the o…
…to the Bhagavân Hari and be free from rebirth. That place is never to be visited and served, even if that be Svarga Loka where the nectar-like ocean of the sayings of Vaiku nt ha are not heard; where there are no assemblages of saints who take refuge of the Lotus f…
…the quarters, Âkâs’a, Heaven and Earth, etc., in their proper spheres and divisions. This Sun is the Âtmâ of Svarga and Mok s a, hell and other lower regions, of the Devas, men, birds, reptiles, trees and all other living beings; and He is the Presiding Deity of th…
…to Pu s kara and practise tapasyâ there; that place is the giver of religious merits and then you will be the Svarga Lak s mî (Lak s mî of Heaven).” Hearing this, the Chhâyâ Sîtâ went and practised tapasyâ for the three divine lakh years and became Mahâ Lak s mî. Th…
…ealth and prosperity. She is the crest of woman-kind as far as loving one’s husbands is concerned. She is the Svarga Lak s mî in the Heavens; the Nâga Lak s mî of the serpents, the Nâgas, in the nether regions; the Râja Lak s mî of the kings and the Household Lak s…