“How does a Jivanmukta (liberated soul) like you view this life? Through what lens do you experience the world, people, and situations? How does your pure mind help you navigate daily life situations and decisions so effortlessly and remain balanced in them?”
“Ordinary people like us often get entangled at the level of mind and intellect, trapped in dualities, and struggle to make decisions. In such a scenario, how does a Jivanmukta live through these paradoxes, dualities, and complex situations of life? What is it in their inner state and vision that keeps them effortless, balanced, and free in every situation?”
Let's understand some basics first. Bhulok भूलोक or this earth is not an isolated world. It is inextricably linked to the whole brahmand or cosmos. The brahmand consists of 14 loks or worlds.
The worlds above and below bhulok are subtle and many of them can't be sensed with our ordinary sensory capacity. Yet many people shift their energy unknowingly and do arrive at sensing them.
Simply put, self obsession and selfishness open your senses and consciousness to the lower worlds creating storms of discontent and dejection in your mind. While, caring about others and the world, an opening of the heart towards other beings and a determination to benefit more beings opens the doors to higher worlds, leading to stability of mind and kindness of heart.
What are these lower worlds and how do we invite our consciousness to descend into a chaotic, unregulated mess?
1. Atal अतल - Just below the earth plane and quite easy to reach even with a little self-centredness is the world of Atal, when your consciousness descends here you are overcome by lust. For men it is marked by dehumanising women and seeing them as sex objects, for women it is marked by measuring their self worth by their sexual power over men. In this state of mind, emotional connection is not possible between partners, cheating and multiple partners start to make sense. Pleasures of the flesh seem to be the only truth.
2. Vital वितल - when you spiral lower into self seeking your consciousness descends into greed for luxury and wealth, you start to measure yourself by how much material wealth you have, you can get addicted to making money, taking big risks, gambling and the pleasure of gaining wealth, gold, gems, luxury and status. Wealth becomes power and the only truth. Relationships depend on profits and people can be replaced when not performing to produce wealth. The urge to profit from everything makes you dehumanise everyone else and most certainly your life ends in disease and death that you can't buy your way out of, due to the curses of others.
3. Sutal सुतल - when your consciousness descends to this world you are overcome with urges of owning land, you objectify the earth, cut forests, deplete eco-systems, affect climate, your truth becomes that the earth is to exploit and is a non-conscious resource. At high skill levels of greed you think of population control and genocide and think nothing of killing people, waging wars, grabbing land, enslaving people with debt and threat. Other humans seem to be either leverage or resources only. You gain pleasure in profits and strive to control narratives to control populations. Ultimately, descending to this world and all the worlds above lead to a noisy and uncontrollable mind and a heavy conscience that becomes dependent on drugs to feel better. The drug ages you, depletes your life force and kills you. And in addition you accumulate curses from people, other beings and even from the planet and suffer very hard even in the afterlife until you start to care about others and the environment.
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4. Talatal तलातल - this descent is very deep and surpasses all three of the above. This is a world of illusions, a mayavi lok. Your pleasure and thrill becomes using your intelligence and the greed and intellectual laziness of others to spin a story that charms them, when they willingly sacrifice themselves for you, you derive great pleasure. Novices form cults, but experienced mayavis get their thrills from regime change and revolution. Everyone seems like a pawn in the game of submission to you. Any humans running things honestly at scale hurts you and you enjoy spinning a maya that destroys them. People realise you didn't care only after they die. But they still curse you and you definitely need drugs or alcohol to kill all empathy and suppress the disturbance of your mind.
5. Mahatal महातल - this is a lower world where your consciousness becomes poisonous, it's also called naglok or serpent world. In this world your consciousness gets addicted to the power of killing other humans. You might form a human sacrifice cult, drink the blood of others. You see yourself as an apex predator and rise in society by killing and fear. You think of yourself as above the law. You form an army of killers and rituals and worship around drinking human blood and eating human flesh.
6. Rasatal रसातल - this descent is to the world of Asurs or demons. Here you stop needing drugs, you are convinced that you are a god, you train hard in occult sciences and left hand spirituality and gain powers over spirits, you make them your slaves and get others to give you energy and power by worshipping you. You laugh at people worshipping idols, you want to kill them and break their temples. You want to challenge the gods and goddesses, you use your captured spirits to make people obey and rule over them. You learn how to change bodies by capturing a younger human and shifting your consciousness into him or her. This is the lowest that selfishness and self centeredness can take you. You will live across generations by changing bodies until you get bored of it. Boredom makes you pray to God to come and kill you. And either Mahavishnu or Devi will arrive to kill you and liberate you from your misery of boredom from too much power.
7. Patal - पाताल this world cannot be reached by selfishness. This is where Mahavishnu sleeps on Adisesha for half the year. Other great serpents like vasuki also come from this world. This is a resting place for Mahasiddhas. No evil is allowed, it's a samadhi Kshetra or a place of deep rest. Patanjali Maharshi who wrote the Yogasutra came from here. Many Mahasiddhas live here and operate their bodies on Bhulok from here. Those who live here are equal to Mahavishnu in their power. If your consciousness reaches patal you are liberated from disturbances and duality. You see the whole brahmand as one. From here to Vaikuntha is just a thought away. A human consciousness can touch patal only by bhakti and atmasamarpan, faith and self-offering towards Mahavishnu and Mahalakshmi. Someone whose consciousness touches Patal will appear calm and unaffected by worldly turbulence
So six worlds below Bhulok lead to evil and the seventh leads to non-duality of Good and Evil.
What happens above earth?
When your consciousness ascends due to humility and love there are 6 worlds to ascend to from bhulok
