Vaikuntha

…the serpent Shesha as his couch on the cosmic waters. His dwelling is Vaikuntha , the place of no hindrance.

The great gods of the last two movements are, overwhelmingly, gods of the sky and the height — the mountain-top, the heaven of Indra, the celestial Vaikuntha and Kailasa.

…serpent on the ocean of milk, or is enthroned in the jewelled city of Vaikuṇṭha , and the beings around him are not a rowdy host but a perfect celestial government — ordered, luminous, and eternal.

…urt is built on an entirely different principle. We leave Kailāsa for Vaikuṇṭha, and the ordered court of Vishnu.

…e soul, freed of the bondage of karma , reaching the eternal realm of Vaikuṇṭha and entering unending, blissful, conscious communion with the God it loves — forever itself, forever distinct, forever His.

…ga-gadya is a prayer cast at the feet of Ranganatha at Srirangam; the Vaikuntha-gadya describes the eternal realm of Vishnu on which the liberated soul dwells.

Vaikuntha Ekadashi , in the cold month when the sun sits in Dhanu , is one: on that day, the tradition says, the gate of Vishnu's heaven stands open, and at the great southern temples a northern door is unseale…

Vaikuntha Ekadashi , the Ekadashi of the month when the sun sits in Dhanu , falls in this window, the day the gate of Vishnu's heaven is held to stand open and the northern door of the great southern temples is…