Vaikuṇṭha

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Vaikuṇṭha. Viṣṇu's paradise (and thus also an epithet/name), variously located, e.g. on Mount Meru, or in the depths of the ocean. As Baikunth, ‘heaven’ enters into the teaching of Gurū Nānak, but only in a demythologized form: Baikunth is the bliss of union with God.