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world. There is a description of the third Vishnu
incarnation in the Caitanya Caritamrta, “There, in
part of the ocean of milk, lies Śvetadvīpa, the abode
of the sustainer, Lord Viṣṇu.” The location of this
Vaikuntha (eternal) planet in the material world is
further described in the astrological text, Siddhanta-
siromani: “The different oceans are described as
follows: (1) the ocean of salt water, (2) the ocean of
milk, (3) the ocean of yogurt, (4) the ocean of clarified
butter, (5) the ocean of sugarcane juice, (6) the ocean
of liquor and (7) the ocean of sweet water. On the
southern side of the ocean of salt water is the ocean
of milk, where Lord Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu resides. He
is worshiped there by demigods like Brahmā. (CC Adi
5.111-112) In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.15.18), it
is described, “My dear Uddhava, you may know that
My transcendental form of Viṣṇu in Śvetadvīpa is
identical with Me in divinity. Anyone who places this
Lord of Śvetadvīpa within his heart can surpass the
pangs of the six material tribulations: hunger, thirst,
birth, death, lamentation and illusion. Thus one can
attain his original, transcendental form.”

This third Vishnu incarnation is also the source of
more incarnations: In the ages and millenniums
of Manu, “He appears as different incarnations to
establish the principles of real religion and vanquish

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