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These with Mâya, which includes them all, make 49. (Once that you have reached
the cognition of Mâya, you are an Adept.)
5 + 5 Tanmâtras 2
5 + 5 Bhûta 2
5 + 5 Gnyânendryas 2
5 + 5 Karmendryas 2
The Lokas
In their exoteric blinds the Brâhmans
TOTALS 20 + 20 + 8 + Mâyâ = 49 count fourteen Lokas earth included),
of which seven are objective, though
not apparent, and seven subjective, yet fully demonstrable to the Inner Man. There
are seven Divine Lokas and seven infernal (terrestrial) Lokas.
SEVEN DIVINE LOKAS
SEVEN INFERNAL
(TERRESTRIAL) LOKAS
1 Bhûrloka (the earth). 1 Pâtâla (our earth).
2 Bhuvarloka (between the earth and the sun [Munîs]). 2 Mahâtala
3 Svarloka (between the sun and the Pole Star [Yogîs]). 3 Rasâtala
4
5
6
Maharloka (between the earth and the and the utmost
limit of the Solar System *
Janarloka (beyond the Solar System, the abode of the
Kumâras who do not belong to this plane).
Taparloka (still beyond the Mahâtmic region, the
dwelling of the Vairâja deities).
4 Talâtala (or Karatala).
5 Sutala
6 Vitala
7 Satyaloka (the abode of the Nirvanîs). 7 Atala
* [All these “spaces” denote the special magnetic currents, the planes of
substance, and the degrees of approach that the consciousness of the Yogi,
or Chela, performs towards assimilation with the inhabitants of the Lokas.]
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Man and Lokas (Page 569)
These the Brâhmans read from the bottom.
Now all these fourteen are planes from without within, and (the seven Divine) States
of Consciousness through which man can pass—and must pass, once he is
determined to go through the seven paths and portals of Dhyâni; one need not be
disembodied for this, and all this is reached on earth, and in one or many of the
incarnations.
See the order: the four lower ones (1,2,3,4), are rûpa; i.e., they are performed by the
Inner Man with the full concurrence of the diviner portions, or elements, of the Lower
Manas, and consciously by the personal man. The three higher states cannot be
reached and remembered by the latter, unless he is a fully initiated Adept. A Hatha
Yogî will never pass beyond the Maharloka, psychically, and the Talâtala (double or
dual place), physico-mentally. To become a Râja Yogî, one has to ascend up to the
seventh portal, the Satyaloka. For such, the Master Yogîs tells us, is the fruition of
Yajna, or sacrifice. When the Bhûr, Bhuvar and Svarga (states) are once passed, and
the Yogi’s consciousness centered in Maharloka, it is in the last plane and state
between entire identification of the Personal and the Higher Manas.
One thing to remember: while the infernal (or terrestrial) states are also the seven
divisions of the earth, for planes and states, as much as they are Kosmic divisions,
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