Lokasamgraha
Let us return to an age when the tapasya of great sannyasins could, in the words of Dr S. Radhakrishnan, ".burn to ashes all sorts of social filth, to make way for all that was pure and righteous.
lokasamgraha the holding together of the race (in its cyclic evolution). lokasamgrahaya [dative]
lokasamgraham evapi sampasyan kartum arhasi thou shouldst do works regarding also the holding together of the peoples. [Gita 3.20] ...
Lokas
22nd to 28th levels of evolution: dimensions where consciousness is active and energy is passive: bhuh, bhuvah, swah, mahah, janah, tapah, and satya
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Mada ...
The next four shlokas in Hathapradeepika describe how the bandh is related to awakening of Kundalini power. Hathapradeepika says that when the apan vayu is forced upwards, it enters the vanhimandal.
The seven underworlds: Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talatala, Rasatala, Mahatala and Patala Lokas are below this Chakra. This Chakra corresponds with Bhu Loka or Bhu-Mandal, physical plane (region of earth).
Here there are the seven upper regions or Lokas, a term which means "What are seen" (Lokyante), that is, experienced, and are hence the fruits of Karma in the form of particular rebirth.
In its listing of Puranas, the Matsya Purana credits the Vishnu Purana with 23,000 shlokas or verses, whereas the text we have runs to less than 7000.
- Bhûrloka or earthly regions, the middle, madhya or martyalokas including the seven lower, âdo, viz. Pâtâla, Rasâtala, Atala, Vitala, Nitala, Talâtala, Mahâtala en Sutala (see S.B. 2-5:36-40; 2-1: 26-39 and 11.
One of the peculiarities of the representation of God's activity in the Cosmos, in the Puranas and Epics, is that creation is said to be constituted of different layers - the fourteen worlds, realms, or Lokas as they are called; ...
Then the corresponding mental/emotional and spiritual realms are known (the lokas).
The Bhagavad-Geeta is composed of 700 (or 701) shlokas (verses) arranged in 18 chapters. It is one of the best-known philosophical texts of Hinduism, and is said to contain the essence of Upanishadic thought.
All these fears could be termed universal, but the fear that all of us encounter in our life is very beautifully described by King Bharatruhari in his "three books of hundreds Shlokas". It is said that ...
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