Lokas and Alien Planets

Hello Friends!! Today I am here to tell you about the Lokas, the different types of places in the universe where human,god and evils lived. According To Maha Bhagvata GeetaThere are so many types of lokas in the Universe. Let us know about them...

All creation of God stretch infinitely,

All times Past,Present and Future,

worlds imagined and unimagined..

Everything that can be,

Everything that cannot be,

All exist somewhere..

Beyond this world are myrial worlds,

And beyond all the worlds,

Is the one that is Eternal..

Vishvarupa of Vishnu as the Cosmic Man with the three realms: heaven - Satya to Bhuvar loka (head to belly), earth - Bhu loka (groin), underworld - Atala to Patala loka (legs).

Loka is a Sanskrit word for "world".

Contents

  1 Jainism

  2 Hindu Tradition

  3 Budhism

     3.1 Hindu Lokas

  4 Theospy

  5 Abhrahamic Religions

  6 References

Jainism:-

Universe structure as told by Kevalins

In Jain Texts, universe is referred to as loka. Jain cosmology 

postulates an eternal and ever-existing loka which works on 

universal natural laws, there being no creator and 

destroyer deity. According to the Jain Cosmology, the 

universe is divided into three parts:

#	Lokas of Jain cosmology
01	Urdhva Loka - the realms of the gods or heavens
02	Madhya Loka – the realms of the humans, animals and  plants
03	Adho Loka – the realms of the hellish beings or the  infernal regions

Hindu tradition:-

Main articles: Urdhva Loka and Patala

Large scale structure of the Brahmanda (material sphere-like Universe)

According to Hindu cosmology, the universe contains 7 

upper and 7 lower planes of existence.

Map 2: Intermediate neighbourhood of the Earth according to one Hindu cosmology.

Map 3: Local neighbourhood of the Earth according to one Hindu cosmology.

In the Puranas and in the Atharvaveda, there are 14 worlds, 

seven higher ones (Vyahrtis) and seven lower ones 

(Patalas), viz. bhu, bhuvas, svar, mahas, janas, tapas, 

and satya above 

and atala, vitala, sutala, rasātala, talātala, mahātala, patala a

nd naraka below.

The scholar Deborah Soifer describes the development of 

the concept of lokas as follows:

The concept of a loka or lokas develops in the Vedic 

literature. Influenced by the special connotations that a word 

for space might have for a nomadic people, loka in the Veda 

did not simply mean place or world, but had a positive 

valuation: it was a place or position of religious or 

psychological interest with a special value of function of its 

own. 

Hence, inherent in the 'loka' concept in the earliest literature 

was a double aspect; that is, coexistent with spatiality was a 

religious or soteriological meaning, which could exist 

independent of a spatial notion, an 'immaterial' significance. 

The most common cosmological conception of lokas in the 

Veda was that of the trailokya or triple world: three worlds 

consisting of earth, atmosphere or sky, and heaven, making 

up the universe.

#	Planetary system name
01	Satya Loka
02	Tapa-loka
03	Jana-loka
04	Mahar-loka
05	Svar-Loka
06	Bhuvar-loka
07	Bhu-loka
08	Atala-loka
09	Vitala-loka
10	Sutala-loka
11	Talatala-loka
12	Mahatala-loka
13	Rasatala-loka
14	Patala-loka

Buddhism:-

In early Buddhism, based upon the Pali Canon and 

related Agamas, there are four distinct worlds: There is the 

Kama Loka, or world of sensuality, in which humans, 

animals, and some devas reside, Rupa-Loka, or the world of 

refined material existence, in which certain beings mastering 

specific meditative attainments reside, and Arupa Loka, or 

the immaterial, formless world, in which beings to master 

formless meditative attainments reside. Arahants, who have 

attained the highest goal of Nibbana (or, Nirvana), have 

unbound themselves from individual (limited) existence in 

any form, in any realm, and cannot be found here, there, or 

in 

between, i.e., they are found in no Loka whatsoever.

Six Lokas

Main article: Six Lokas

In the Tibetan and Tantric schools, "Six Lokas" refers to 

a Bonpo and Nyingmapa spiritual practice or discipline that 

works with chakras and the six dimensions or classes of 

beings in the Bhavachakra. And in Buddhist 

Cosmology kama -Loka, Rupa-Loka, Arupa-Loka has 

interpreted.

Theosophy:-

The concept of Lokas was adopted by Theosopy, and can be 

found in the writings of Blavatsky and G. de Purucker. There 

is also reference to kamaloka (world of desires) as a sort 

of astral plane or temporary after-life state, according to the 

teachings of Blavatsky, Leadbeater, and Steiner.

Abrahamic religions:-

The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) 

refer to "seven heavens" and "seven earths"^]

The Quran frequently mentions the existence of 

seven samaawat (سماوات), plural of samaa'a (سماء), which is 

customarily translated as 'heaven'. The word is cognate to 

Hebrew shamayim (שמים).