SB 10.89.47 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.89.47

सप्त द्वीपान् ससिन्धूंश्च सप्तसप्तगिरीनथ । लोकालोकं तथातीत्य विवेश सुमहत्तम: ॥ ४७ ॥

sapta dvīpān sa-sindhūṁś ca

[sapta dveepaan sa-sindhoomsh cha]

sapta sapta girīn atha

[sapta sapta gireen atha]

lokālokaṁ tathātītya

[lokaalokam tathaateetya]

viveśa su-mahat tamaḥ

[vivesha su-mahat tamah]

Word-for-word

sapta — seven dvīpān — islands sa — with sindhūn — their oceans ca — and sapta sapta — seven each girīn — mountains atha — then loka - alokam — the mountain range separating light from darkness tathā — also atītya — crossing viveśa — He entered su - mahat — vast tamaḥ — darkness .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

sapta dvīpān sa-sindhūṁś ca

sapta

seven

dvīpān

islands

with

sindhūn

their oceans

and

sapta sapta girīn atha

sapta sapta

seven each

girīn

mountains

atha

then

lokālokaṁ tathātītya

loka - alokam

the mountain range separating light from darkness

tathā

also

atītya

crossing

viveśa su-mahat tamaḥ

viveśa

He entered

su - mahat

vast

tamaḥ

darkness .

Important Words

sapta-dvīpān — the seven islands
Compound: sapta (seven) + dvīpa (island). The seven-island cosmography of Bhū-maṇḍala — Jambū, Plakṣa, Śālmali, Kuśa, Krauñca, Śāka, Puṣkara. SB 5.16–22 maps them in detail; this verse races past them.
loka-alokam — the Lokāloka boundary
Compound: loka (world) + a-loka (not-world). The mountain-wall that separates the inhabited universe from the un-illumined. Gauḍīyas read the crossing as the threshold beyond which only Bhagavān's vehicle goes.
atītya — having crossed beyond
Gerund of ati + √i (to go beyond). The verb of transcending. The Bhāgavatam stacks atītya / viveśa: one crosses out of, one enters into — the standard grammar of Vaiṣṇava transit between regions.
su-mahat-tamaḥ — the very great darkness
Compound: su (very) + mahat (great) + tamas (darkness). Not ordinary night — the kāraṇa-tamas, the unilluminated medium between universes. The chariot now enters terrain that requires its own light.

The Lord’s chariot passed over the seven islands of the middle universe, each with its ocean and its seven principal mountains. Then it crossed the Lokāloka boundary and entered the vast region of total darkness.

Purport

In Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrīla Prabhupāda notes: “Kṛṣṇa passed over all these planets and reached the covering of the universe. This covering is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as great darkness. This material world as a whole is described as dark. In the open space there is sunlight, and therefore it is illuminated, but in the covering, because of the absence of sunlight, it is naturally dark.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

The Lord's chariot passed over the seven islands of the middle universe, each with its ocean and its seven principal mountains. Then it crossed the Lokāloka boundary and entered the vast region of total darkness.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

The chariot crossed the seven islands and even the seven oceans. Another version has sapta-sindhūn. Then it tehn approached the Lokāloka mountain range.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

The chariot crossed the seven islands and even the seven oceans. Another version has sapta-sindhūn. Then it then approached the Lokāloka mountain range. After all that, after crossing the seven layers of the universe (tataḥ) the chariot entered very dense darkness (sumahat tamaḥ), the covering of prakṛti.

Related values & verses

Related values

Adambhitva (Non-hypocrisy / Authenticity)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Discriminative Wisdom

Concepts

JivaPrakriti

Personal Guidance

The chariot passes over the seven islands, each with its ocean and mountains. Divine travel covers vast geography effortlessly; spiritual rescue moves at different scale than material seeking.

Reflection Questions

What 'distance' in my problem have I assumed is bigger than God's reach?
Where could divine scale shrink what felt impossible?

Analogy

The chariot passes the seven dvīpas, their oceans, their mountains, and crosses Lokāloka — the wall of the visible cosmos. Then it enters tamas — total darkness. The Bhāgavatam is mapping a journey that has no map: the chariot is going beyond all the locations any standard cosmography contains.

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