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<h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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The Vaikuṇṭha planets are full of transcendental variegatedness, including the four-handed residents of those planets, with great opulence of wealth and prosperity, and there are even airplanes and other amenities required for high-grade personalities. Therefore the Personality of Godhead exists before the creation, and He exists with all transcendental variegatedness in the Vaikuṇṭhalokas.
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[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.33|SB 2.9.33, Translation and Purport]]
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Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.
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The other feature of the statement is that the supreme truth is Bhagavān, or the Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead and His kingdom have already been explained. The kingdom of Godhead is not void as conceived by the impersonalists. The Vaikuṇṭha planets are full of transcendental variegatedness, including the four-handed residents of those planets, with great opulence of wealth and prosperity, and there are even airplanes and other amenities required for high-grade personalities. Therefore the Personality of Godhead exists before the creation, and He exists with all transcendental variegatedness in the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. The Vaikuṇṭhalokas, also accepted in the Bhagavad-gītā as being of the sanātana nature, are not annihilated even after the annihilation of the manifested cosmos. Those transcendental planets are of a different nature altogether, and that nature is not subjected to the rules and regulations of material creation, maintenance or annihilation. The existence of the Personality of Godhead implies the existence of the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, as the existence of a king implies the existence of a kingdom.

In various places in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and in other revealed scriptures the existence of the Personality of Godhead is mentioned. For example, in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 2.8.10|SB 2.8.10]]), Mahārāja Parīkṣit asks:

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:sa cāpi yatra puruṣo</dd><dd>viśva-sthity-udbhavāpyayaḥ</dd><dd>muktvātma-māyāṁ māyeśaḥ</dd><dd>śete sarva-guhāśayaḥ
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"How does the Personality of Godhead, the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation, who is always freed from the influence of the illusory energy and is the controller of the same, lie in everyone's heart?" Similar also is a question of Vidura's:

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:tattvānāṁ bhagavaṁs teṣāṁ</dd><dd>katidhā pratisaṅkramaḥ</dd><dd>tatremaṁ ka upāsīran</dd><dd>ka u svid anuśerate</dd><dd>([[Vanisource:SB 3.7.37|SB 3.7.37]])
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Śrīdhara Svāmī explains this in his notes: "During the annihilation of the creation, who serves the Lord lying on the Śeṣa, etc." This means that the transcendental Lord with all His name, fame, quality and paraphernalia exists eternally. The same confirmation is also in the Kāśī-khaṇḍa of the Skanda Purāṇa in connection with dhruva-carita. It is said there:

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:na cyavante 'pi yad-bhaktā</dd><dd>mahatyāṁ pralayāpadi</dd><dd>ato 'cyuto 'khile loke</dd><dd>sa ekaḥ sarvago 'vyayaḥ
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Even the devotees of the Personality of Godhead are not annihilated during the period of the entire annihilation of the material world, not to speak of the Lord Himself. The Lord is ever-existent in all three stages of material change.
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