"Planet of the trees " Gita 10.29

[Paramananda das]

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

One of the translations in Bhagavad Gita 10.29 is Pitrloka described as the planetes of the trees in Macmillian we read: Chapter 10. The Opulence of the Absolute

TEXT 29

anantas casmi naganam varuno yadasam aham pitrnam aryama casmi yamah samyamatam aham

SYNONYMS

anantah--Ananta; ca--also; asmi--I am; naganam--of all serpents; varunah--the demigod controlling the water; yadasam--of all  aquatics; aham--I am; pitrnam--of the ancestors; aryama--Aryama; ca--also; asmi--I am; yamah--the  controller of death; samyamatam--of all regulators; aham--I am.

TRANSLATION

Of the celestial Naga snakes I  am Ananta; of the aquatic deities I am Varuna. Of departed ancestors I am  Aryama, and among the dispensers of law I am Yama, lord of death.

PURPORT

Among the many celestial Naga serpents,  Ananta is the greatest, as is Varuna among the aquatics. They both represent  Krsna. There is also a planet of trees presided over by Aryama, who represents  Krsna. There are many living entities who give punishment to the miscreants, and  among them Yama is the chief. Yama is situated in a planet near this earthly  planet, and after death those who are very sinful are taken there, and Yama  arranges different kinds of punishments for them.

So it has been edited by the BBT editors:

Text 29

anantas casmi naganam varuno yadasam aham pitrnam aryama casmi yamah samyamatam aham

Translation

Of the many-hooded Nagas I am Ananta, and among the aquatics I am the demigod Varuna. Of departed ancestors I am Aryama, and among the dispensers of law I am Yama, the lord of death.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

Among the many-hooded Naga serpents, Ananta is the greatest, as is the demigod Varuna among the aquatics. They both represent Krishna. There is also a planet of Pitas, ancestors, presided over by Aryama, who represents Krishna. There are many living entities who give punishment to the miscreants, and among them Yama is the chief. Yama is situated in a planet near this earthly planet. After death those who are very sinful are taken there, and Yama arranges different kinds of punishments for them.

Commentary by Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur

Among the inhabitants of the water (yadasam) I am Varuna. Among those who punish (samyamatam) I am Yama.

Rudra Vaisnava Sampradaya: Visnuswami Sridhara Swami's Commentary Of Nagas or non-poisonous snakes, Lord Krishna vibhuti or divine,  transcendental opulence is Ananta the divine serpent upon whose head unlimited  universes revolve resembling the size of a mustard seed. Of aquatics He is  Varuna the ruler of the waters. Of the manes or His vibhuti is Aryaman the  king of the manes and of chastisers or those who mete out punishment Lord  Krishna's vibhutiis Yamaraja the demigod in charge of death and  punishment after death.

Brahma Vaisnava Sampradaya: Madhvacarya Madhvacarya's Commentary

Sri Vaisnava Sampradaya: Ramanuja Ramanuja's Commentary Lord Krishna reveals that His vibhuti or divine, transcendental  opulence among naganam is Ananta. Naganam means non-poisonous  serpents with many heads. The word yadasam means aquatics or inhabitants  of water and of punishers and chastisers His vibhuti isYamaraja.

Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya: Nimbaditya Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary Among non-poisonous serpents of many heads Lord Krishna's vibhuti or  divine, transcendental opulence is the divine snake Ananta endowed with the  qualities of dispassion, mightiness, etc. Among the controllers of the demigods  who direct universal management His vibhuti is Yamaraja the demigod in  charge of death who blesses the righteous and punishes the unrighteous

Comment"

So I am mentioning all these things as Jayadvaita Swami thinks I do not know.

There is also a similar vers spoken by Krsna to Uddhava in the Uddhava Gita:

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.16.15

siddheśvarāṇāḿ kapilaḥ

suparṇo 'haḿ patatriṇām

prajāpatīnāḿ dakṣo 'haḿ

pitṝṇām aham aryamā

SYNONYMS

siddha-īśvarāṇām — among perfected beings; kapilaḥ — I am Lord Kapila; suparṇaḥ — Garuḍa; aham — I am; patatriṇām — among birds; prajāpatīnām — among the progenitors of ; dakṣaḥ — Dakṣa; aham — I am; pitṝṇām — among the forefathers; aham — I am; aryamā — Aryamā.

TRANSLATION

I am Lord Kapila among perfected beings and Garuḍa among birds. I am Dakṣa among the progenitors of mankind, and I am Aryamā among the forefathers.

Also Aryama is mentioned in SB Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.29 offering prayers to Lord Kurma:

hiraṇmaye 'pi bhagavān nivasati kūrma-tanuḿ bibhrāṇas tasya tat priyatamāḿ tanum aryamā saha varṣa-puruṣaiḥ pitṛ-gaṇādhipatir upadhāvati mantram imaḿ cānujapati

SYNONYMS

hiraṇmaye — in Hiraṇmaya-varṣa; api — indeed; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nivasati — resides; kūrma-tanum — the body of a tortoise; bibhrāṇaḥ — manifesting; tasya — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tat — that; priya-tamām — dearmost; tanum — body; aryamā — Aryamā, the chief resident of Hiraṇmaya-varṣa; saha — with; varṣa-puruṣaiḥ — the people of that tract of land; pitṛ-gaṇa-adhipatiḥ — who is the chief of the pitās; upadhāvati — worships in devotional service; mantram — hymn; imam — this; ca — also; anujapati — chants.

TRANSLATION

Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kūrma-śarīra]. This most dear and beautiful form is always worshiped there in devotional service by Aryamā, the chief resident of Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, along with the other inhabitants of that land. They chant the following hymns.

PURPORT

The word priyatama (dearmost) is very significant in this verse. Each devotee regards a particular form of the Lord as most dear. Because of an atheistic mentality, some people think that the tortoise, boar and fish incarnations of the Lord are not very beautiful. They do not know that any form of the Lord is always the fully opulent Personality of Godhead. Since one of His opulences is infinite beauty, all the Lord's incarnations are very beautiful and are appreciated as such by devotees. Nondevotees, however, think that Lord Kṛṣṇa's incarnations are ordinary material creatures, and therefore they distinguish between the beautiful and the not beautiful. A certain form of the Lord is worshiped by a particular devotee because he loves to see that form of the Lord. As stated in Brahma-saḿhitā (5.33): advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaḿ purāṇa-puruṣaḿ nava-yauvanaḿ ca. The very beautiful form of the Lord is always youthful. Sincere servants of a particular form of the Lord always see that form as very beautiful, and thus they engage in constant devotional service to Him.

SB 5.18.29: Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kūrma-śarīra]. This most dear and beautiful form is always worshiped there in devotional service by Aryamā, the chief resident of Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, along with the other inhabitants of that land. They chant the following hymns.

SB 5.18.30: O my Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who have assumed the form of a tortoise. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and being entirely untinged by matter, You are perfectly situated in pure goodness. You move here and there in the water, but no one can discern Your position. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Because of Your transcendental position, You are not limited by past, present and future. You are present everywhere as the shelter of all things, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You again and again.

SB 5.18.31: My dear Lord, this visible cosmic manifestation is a demonstration of Your own creative energy. Since the countless varieties of forms within this cosmic manifestation are simply a display of Your external energy, this virāṭ-rūpa [universal body] is not Your real form. Except for a devotee in transcendental consciousness, no one can perceive Your actual form. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

SB 5.18.32: My dear Lord, You manifest Your different energies in countless forms: as living entities born from wombs, from eggs and from perspiration; as plants and trees that grow out of the earth; as all living entities, both moving and standing, including the demigods, the learned sages and the pitās; as outer space, as the higher planetary system containing the heavenly planets, and as the planet earth with its hills, rivers, seas, oceans and islands. Indeed, all the stars and planets are simply manifestations of Your different energies, but originally You are one without a second. Therefore there is nothing beyond You. This entire cosmic manifestation is therefore not false but is simply a temporary manifestation of Your inconceivable energy.

SB 5.18.33: O my Lord, Your name, form and bodily features are expanded in countless forms. No one can determine exactly how many forms exist, yet You Yourself, in Your incarnation as the learned scholar Kapiladeva, have analyzed the cosmic manifestation as containing twenty-four elements. Therefore if one is interested in Sāńkhya philosophy, by which one can enumerate the different truths, he must hear it from You. Unfortunately, nondevotees simply count the different elements and remain ignorant of Your actual form. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.6.38-39

athātaḥ śrūyatāḿ vaḿśo

yo 'diter anupūrvaśaḥ

yatra nārāyaṇo devaḥ

svāḿśenāvātarad vibhuḥ

vivasvān aryamā pūṣā

tvaṣṭātha savitā bhagaḥ

dhātā vidhātā varuṇo

mitraḥ śatru urukramaḥ

SYNONYMS

atha — thereafter; ataḥ — now; śrūyatām — let it be heard; vaḿśaḥ — the dynasty; yaḥ — which; aditeḥ — from Aditi; anupūrvaśaḥ — in chronological order; yatra — wherein; nārāyaṇaḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; devaḥ — the Lord; sva-aḿśena — by His own plenary expansion; avātarat — descended; vibhuḥ — the Supreme; vivasvān — Vivasvān; aryamā — Aryamā; pūṣā — Pūṣā; tvaṣṭā — Tvaṣṭā; atha — thereafter; savitā — Savitā; bhagaḥ — Bhaga; dhātā — Dhātā; vidhātā — Vidhātā; varuṇaḥ — Varuṇa; mitraḥ — Mitra; śatruḥ — Śatru; urukramaḥ — Urukrama.

TRANSLATION

Now please hear me as I describe the descendants of Aditi in chronological order. In this dynasty the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa descended by His plenary expansion. The names of the sons of Aditi are as follows: Vivasvān, Aryamā, Pūṣā, Tvaṣṭā, Savitā, Bhaga, Dhātā, Vidhātā, Varuṇa, Mitra, Śatru and Urukrama.

Aryama is also described in 12 canto:

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 12.11.34

aryamā pulaho 'thaujāḥ

prahetiḥ puñjikasthalī

nāradaḥ kacchanīraś ca

nayanty ete sma mādhavam

SYNONYMS

aryamā pulahaḥ athaujāḥ — Aryamā, Pulaha and Athaujā; prahetiḥ puñjikasthalī — Praheti and Puñjikasthalī; nāradaḥ kacchanīraḥ — Nārada and Kacchanīra; ca — also; nayanti — rule; ete — these; sma — indeed; mādhavam — the month of Mādhava (Vaiśākha).

TRANSLATION

Aryamā as the sun-god, Pulaha as the sage, Athaujā as the Yakṣa, Praheti as the Rākṣasa, Puñjikasthalī as the Apsarā, Nārada as the Gandharva and Kacchanīra as the Nāga rule the month of Mādhava.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.15

abibhrad aryamā daṇḍaḿ

yathāvad agha-kāriṣu

yāvad dadhāra śūdratvaḿ

śāpād varṣa-śataḿ yamaḥ

SYNONYMS

abibhrat — administered; aryamā — Aryamā; daṇḍam — punishment; yathāvat — as it was suitable; agha-kāriṣu — unto persons who had committed sins; yāvat — as long as; dadhāra — accepted; śūdratvam — the tabernacle of a śūdra; śāpāt — as the result of a curse; varṣa-śatam — for one hundred years; yamaḥ — Yamarāja.

TRANSLATION

As long as Vidura played the part of a śūdra, being cursed by Maṇḍūka Muni, Aryamā officiated at the post of Yamarāja to punish those who committed sinful acts.

PURPORT

Vidura, born in the womb of a śūdra woman, was forbidden even to be a party of royal heritage along with his brothers Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu. Then how could he occupy the post of a preacher to instruct such learned kings and kṣatriyas as Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira? The first answer is that even though it is accepted that he was a śūdra by birth, because he renounced the world for spiritual enlightenment by the authority of Ṛṣi Maitreya and was thoroughly by him in transcendental knowledge, he was quite competent to occupy the post of an ācārya, or spiritual preceptor. According to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, anyone who is conversant in the transcendental knowledge, or the science of Godhead, be he a brāhmaṇa or a śūdra, a householder or a sannyāsī, is eligible to become a spiritual master. Even in the ordinary moral codes (maintained by Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, the great politician and moralist) there is no harm in taking lessons from a person who may be by birth less than a śūdra. This is one part of the answer. The other is that Vidura was not actually a śūdra. He was to play the part of a so-called śūdra for one hundred years, being cursed by Maṇḍūka Muni. He was the incarnation of Yamarāja, one of the twelve mahājanas, on the level with such exalted personalities as Brahmā, Nārada, Śiva, Kapila, Bhīṣma, Prahlāda, etc. Being a mahājana, it is the duty of Yamarāja to preach the cult of devotion to the people of the world, as Nārada, Brahmā, and other mahājanas do. But Yamarāja is always busy in his plutonic kingdom punishing the doers of sinful acts. Yamarāja is deputed by the Lord to a particular planet, some hundreds of thousands of miles away from the planet of earth, to take away the corrupt souls after death and convict them in accordance with their respective sinful activities. Thus Yamarāja has very little time to take leave from his responsible office of punishing the wrongdoers. There are more wrongdoers than righteous men. Therefore Yamarāja has to do more work than other demigods who are also authorized agents of the Supreme Lord. But he wanted to preach the glories of the Lord, and therefore by the will of the Lord he was cursed by Maṇḍūka Muni to come into the world in the incarnation of Vidura and work very hard as a great devotee. Such a devotee is neither a śūdra nor a brāhmaṇa. He is transcendental to such divisions of mundane society, just as the Personality of Godhead assumes His incarnation as a hog, but He is neither a hog nor a Brahmā. He is above all mundane creatures. The Lord and His different authorized devotees sometimes have to play the role of many lower creatures to the conditioned souls, but both the Lord and His pure devotees are always in the transcendental position. When Yamarāja thus incarnated himself as Vidura, his post was officiated by Aryamā, one of the many sons of Kaśyapa and Aditi. The Ādityas are sons of Aditi, and there are twelve Ādityas. Aryamā is one of the twelve Ādityas, and therefore it was quite possible for him to take charge of the office of Yamarāja during his one hundred years' absence in the form of Vidura. The conclusion is that Vidura was never a śūdra, but was greater than the purest type of brāhmaṇa.

comment: Yes there is some mistakes in Srila Prabhupadas books should they have  been edited?  There is also for example a mistake where the gunja berries of Govardhana mentioned in Caitanya Caritamrta is translated as small  conchells that is certainly a mistake and BBT refuse to edit it. I know most favor ,one or the other version, I favor both...

I will distribute both "versiones", both have the power to purifie  conditioned souls, and if that  disatisfie both or any parties I can only laugh at this figthing...

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Paramananda das