Higher Planets

The happiness and pleasures experienced by the denizens of heaven are immensely superior to those found on earth. The chief of the administrative demigods, Indra, is the king of heaven. Indraloka, the planet where Indra resides, has gardens where one can associate with beautiful, angelic personalities and enjoy a profuse supply of soma-rasa, a celestial intoxicant. There are magnificent palaces, beautiful landscapes and endless gardens with aromatic flowers. In contrast to the heavenly planets, the sense enjoyment on earth is insignificant and is experienced on an extremely gross level. The term deathless, amara, is often used to describe the residents of the heavenly planets because their span of life is inconceivably long. Although they live for millions of years by our calculation, none within the material worlds can live there eternally.