नारदाहमिदं मन्ये तादृशानां यतः स्थितिः ।
भवेत्स एव वैकुण्ठो लोको नात्र विचारणा ॥
nāradāham idaṁ manye tādṛśānāṁ yataḥ sthitiḥ |
bhavet sa eva vaikuṇṭho loko nātra vicāraṇā ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.3.60)
“O Nārada, this I consider: wherever there is the presence of those who are such [i.e., who are bhaktas of Śrī Bhagavān as described earlier in BB 1.3.55–58], that itself shall be Vaikuṇṭha-loka. There is no [need of] deliberation in this regard [i.e., there is no doubt about it].”
Commentary
na ca martya-loka-nivāsitvena teṣāṁ vaikuṇṭha-vāsibhyo nyūnatvam ity āha—nāradeti | … vaikuṇṭhavad bhakti-sampatteḥ bhagavad-avasthānāc ca yathoktaṁ bhagavatā—‘nāhaṁ vasāmi vaikuṇṭhe na yogi-hṛdaye ravau | mad-bhaktā yatra gāyanti tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada ||’ iti ||
(Excerpt from the Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“And it is not that they [i.e., the aforementioned bhaktas] have inferiority to residents of Vaikuṇṭha because of [those bhaktas’] being residents of the mortal world. Thus, he says Nārada … [i.e.., he speaks this verse]. [There is no need of deliberation in this regard] Because of [their] attainment of bhakti as in Vaikuṇṭha [even while they are in the mortal world] and because of the presence of Bhagavān [among them even while they are in the material world], as is stated by Bhagavān [himself], ‘I do not dwell in Vaikuṇṭha, in the heart of a yogī, or in the sun. Where my bhaktas sing, there I reside, O Nārada.’”