Vedic cosmology - planetariumWithin and beyond time and space: Tour the transcendental world, the material world and find the way backThis is a simplified way to understand the wanderings of a spirit soul within samsara, the cycle of birth and death. It shows the basic facts needed to understand this world and the life in it and helps to learn about the different ways of life leading to elevation or degradation.
With this information you can be more in control of your life, in harmony with the universe and its laws:'We cannot break the laws - we can only break ourselves against the laws.' This 'tour' is based on Vedic scriptures like, as well as other Vaisnava sources. This scheme of the universe is similar to many others known from the world folklore.
For details see e.g. The chapter The Hierarchy: The Cross-Cultural Study in.Maps 1,2,3 were drawn by Yadukulesvara Prabhu and can be found also at.More resources:- Sadaputa das produced. Here is a and.- Danavir Goswami produced, DVD and the.See also- Soolaba Prabhu explains- Gokul Candra Prabhu (BVKS) made an elaborate.Your servants at VEDA.Iam partand parcel and eternal servant of the. ANTARIKSABetween Bhuvarloka and Bhurloka is antariksa, an interplanetary spacewhere the Sun is situated. Here live beings like Raksasas, Yaksas, Pisacasand ghosts. They often descend on earth and are generally inimicalto humans.
Usuallly they will be born later as.Ghosts- 'Living entities who are associates of Rudra develop in the third modeof material nature, or ignorance. They are situated in the sky betweenthe earthly planets and the heavenly planets.' (SB 3.6.29)'Beneath Vidyadhara-loka, Caranaloka and Siddhaloka, in the sky calledantariksa, are the places of enjoyment for the Yaksas, Raksasas, Pisacas,ghosts and so on. Antariksa extends as far as the wind blows and the cloudsfloat in the sky. Above this there is no more air.' (SB 5.24.5)Related:BHURLOKABhurloka, or Bhu-mandala is the earthly level consisting of sevenspheres (dvipas) - Jambudvipa, Plaksadvipa, Salmalidvipa, Kusadvipa,Krauncadvipa, Sakadvipa, Puskaradvipa - which are inhabited by varioushuman beings.'
The planetary system known as Bhu-mandala resembles a lotus flower,and its seven islands resemble the whorl of that flower. The length andbreadth of the island known as Jambudvipa, which is situated in the middleof the whorl, are one million yojanas eight million miles. Jambudvipais round like the leaf of a lotus flower.' (SB 5.16.5)Theplanet Earth where I live now as a is situated within Jambudvipa. It is known as karma-bhumi (VisnuPurana 2.3.2) or karma-ksetra (Narada Pancaratra 2.2.62), the place wherenew karma is created, a kind of cosmic.Here I will decide about my future situation, higher or lower, by actingin a particular way (not that 'all paths are the same' - yatha mata tathapata).'
King Rahugana said: This birth as a human being is the best of all.Even birth among the demigods in the heavenly planets is not as gloriousas birth as a human being on this earth. What is the use of the exaltedposition of a demigod? In the heavenly planets, due to profuse materialcomforts, there is no possibility of associating with devotees.' (SB 5.13.21)BILA-SVARGABila-svarga is the name of subterranean 'heavens' inhabited bythe asuras and the.
BhagavataPurana lists seven of them, one below another: Atala, Vitala, Sutala,Talatala, Mahatala, Rasatala and Patala.Bila-svarga - 'In these seven planetarysystems, which are also known as the subterranean heavens bila-svarga,there are very beautiful houses, gardens and places of sense enjoyment,which are even more opulent than those in the higher planets because thedemons have a very high standard of sensual pleasure, wealth and influence.Most of the residents of these planets, who are known as Daityas, Danavasand Nagas, live as householders. Their wives, children, friends and societyare all fully engaged in illusory, material happiness.
Stevens pdf. The sense enjoymentof the demigods is sometimes disturbed, but the residents of these planetsenjoy life without disturbances. Thus they are understood to be very attachedto illusory happiness.' (SB 5.24.8)Asuras - 'Now let me describe the sons of Diti, who were begottenby Kasyapa but who became demons. In this demoniac family the great devoteePrahlada Maharaja appeared, and Bali Maharaja also appeared in that family.The demons are technically known as Daityas because they proceeded fromthe womb of Diti.' (SB 6.18.10)'Beneath Mahatala is the planetary system known as Rasatala, which isthe abode of the demoniac sons of Diti and Danu. They are called Panis,Nivata-kavacas, Kaleyas and Hiranya-puravasis those living in Hiranya-pura.They are all enemies of the demigods, and they reside in holes like snakes.From birth they are extremely powerful and cruel, and although they areproud of their strength, they are always defeated by the Sudarsana cakraof the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who rules all the planetary systems.When a female messenger from Indra named Sarama chants a particular curse,the serpentine demons of Mahatala become very afraid of Indra.'
(SB 5.24.30)Nagas- 'Beneath Rasatala is another planetary system, known as Patala or Nagaloka,where there are many demoniac serpents, the masters of Nagaloka, suchas Sankha, Kulika, Mahasankha, Sveta, Dhananjaya, Dhrtarastra, Sankhacuda,Kambala, Asvatara and Devadatta. The chief among them is Vasuki. Theyare all extremely angry, and they have many, many hoods - some snakesfive hoods, some seven, some ten, others a hundred and others a thousand.These hoods are bedecked with valuable gems, and the light emanating fromthe gems illuminates the entire planetary system of bila-svarga.' (SB5.24.31)I have become one of the asuras or Nagas, half human and half serpentbeings, who are enjoying high standard of material life on sub-earthlylevels.
I am endowed with supernatural powers, totally irreligious andusually inimical to humans. This seemingly ideal life is interrupted fromtime to time - I am killed by Lord's Sudarsana chakra and born as a.HELLSHells(Naraka) - the lowest levels in the universe, places to suffer for committingspecific vikarmas for a determined time. Yamadutas are bringingme to Yamaraja, the judge of the.He will determine the type and length of my punishment according to. After my punishment is over I will be born as an.' While living one may be proud of one's body, thinking oneself a verybig man, minister, president or even demigod, but whatever one may be,after death this body will turn either into worms, into stool or intoashes.
If one kills poor animals to satisfy the temporary whims of thisbody, one does not know that he will suffer in his next birth, for sucha sinful miscreant must go to hell and suffer the results of his actions.' (SB 10.10.10)'As directed by Citragupta, he suffers in hell. Having suffered torturesthere, he is born in low species.' 'When the expiatory and deterrent tortures in hell cease, the living beingsare born again in human (or animal - 28) form with the characteristictraits of their sins. O foremost among birds, I shall tell you what thesesigns are.'
(Garuda Purana 2.10.88-89, 2.46.9-10,28)Yamadutas- 'Those who have passed several years in the dreadful hell and have nodescendants (to offer gifts) in their favor become messengers of Yama.' (Garuda Purana 2.18.34)As a criminal is arrested for punishment by the constables of the state,a person engaged in criminal sense gratification is similarly arrestedby the Yamadutas, who bind him by the neck with strong rope and coverhis subtle body so that he may undergo severe punishment. (SB 3.30.20)Yamaraja- 'The King of the pitas ancestors is Yamaraja, the very powerful sonof the sun-god. He resides in Pitrloka with his personal assistants and,while abiding by the rules and regulations set down by the Supreme Lord,has his agents, the Yamadutas, bring all the sinful men to him immediatelyupon their death.
After bringing them within his jurisdiction, he properlyjudges them according to their specific sinful activities and sends themto one of the many hellish planets for suitable punishments.' (SB 5.26.6)LORD ANANTAApproximately240,000 miles beneath the planet Patala lives another incarnation of theSupreme Personality of Godhead. He is the expansion of Lord Visnu knownas Lord Ananta or Lord Sankarsana. He is always in the transcendentalposition, but because He is worshiped by Lord Siva, the deity of tamo-gunaor darkness, He is sometimes called tamasi.
Lord Ananta is the predominatingDeity of the material mode of ignorance as well as the false ego of allconditioned souls. When a conditioned living being thinks, 'I amthe enjoyer, and this world is meant to be enjoyed by me,' this conceptionof life is dictated to him by Sankarsana.
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Thus the mundane conditionedsoul thinks himself the Supreme Lord. This great universe, situated onone of Lord Anantadeva's thousands of hoods, appears just like a whitemustard seed.
It is infinitesimal compared to the hood of Lord Ananta.At the time of devastation, when Lord Anantadeva desires to destroy theentire creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from between His twoeyebrows appears three-eyed Rudra, carrying a trident. (SB 5.25.1 - 3)page url: support us.
Pahari painting of Golden cosmic egg Hiranyagarbha by Manaku, c. 1740.Hiraṇyagarbha (: हिरण्यगर्भः; literally the 'golden womb' or 'golden egg', poetically translated as 'universal germ') is the source of the creation of or the manifested in, as well as an avatar of Vishnu in the.
It finds mention in one hymn of the (.121), known as the Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta, suggesting a single creator deity (verse 8: yo deveṣv ādhi devā eka āsīt, Griffith: 'He is the God of gods, and none beside him.' ), identified in the hymn as. The concept of the 'golden womb' is first mentioned in the Vishwakarma Sūkta (RV 10.82.5,6) which picturized the 'primeval womb' as being rested set upon the navel of Vishwakarman the Supreme cosmic creator, that One wherein abide all things existing. This imagery was later tranferred to Vishnu.The calls it the Soul of the Universe or, and elaborates that Hiraṇyagarbha floated around in emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke into two halves which formed the and the.In classical Hinduism, Hiraṇyagarbha is the term used in the Vedanta for the 'creator'. Hiraṇyagarbha is also, so called because it is said he was born from a golden egg ( 1.9), while the calls it the Manifest.Some classical yoga traditions consider Hiraṇyagarbha as the originator of, though this may also be a name for Rishi.(2.25-30) gives an account of initial creation. After, the great dissolution of the Universe, there was darkness everywhere. Everything was in a state of sleep.
There was nothing, either moving or static. Then, self-manifested Being arose, which is a form beyond senses. It created the primordial waters first and established the seed of creation into it.
The seed turned into a golden womb, Hiraṇyagarbha. Then entered in the egg.The exclaims that everything that is, visible or invisible, all this is pervaded by within and without.The says that the universe is pervaded by (God), who is both within and without it.
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