Shri Guru Raghavendra Swamy Jayanthi in 2012 ( Guru's Birthday )

BIRTH DAY GIFT TO “SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY” ON  THE
OCCASION OF HIS BIRTH DAY
(PHALGUNA SHUDDHA SAPTAMI : Wed : 29-02-2012)
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Phalguna Shuddha Saptami is the
BIRTH DAY FESTIVAL
of
“SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY (GURURAJARU)”
It is customary that one gives out a gift to the beloved on the occasion of the Birth Day
The most liked item or the choice of Sri Raghavendra Swamy is the chanting of
“SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA”
When we chant “SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA”, it is in turn offered by
Sri Raghavendra Swamy
to
SRI VAYU DEVARU    and     SRI RAMA DEVARU.
Hence, chanting of
“SRI RAGHAVENDRAYA NAMAHA”
is not only liked by
“Sri Raghavendra Swamy”
but it also fulfils the desires of the devotees because it is delivered to
SRI VAYU DEVARU  and   SRI RAMA DEVARU
So, here is a great opportunity to the devotees to
participate individually in this program by chanting
“SRI RAGHANVENDRAYA NAMAHA”  16,000 times.
Devotees can commence the chanting and complete the same
before 29-02-2012
and once you have completed the chanting inform the matter to:
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Archaka Parimalacharya
Sri Raghavendra Saptaha Karyacharana Samithi
Mantralaya – 518345
Phone:  08512-279446
Cell   :  +91 99864 95989
Email:   info@saptaaha.com
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Upon receiving your information before 29-02-2012,
the total chanted numbers from all the devotees will be offered as a
BIRTH DAY GIFT to “SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY (GURURAJARU)”
on 29-02-2012 -  Phalguna Shuddha Saptami - Wed
on the
BIRTH DAY FESTIVAL OF ‘SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY (GURURAJARU)”
Tiruvallur(Near Chennai)  during the
Raghavendra Swamy Saptaha Mahotsavam

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Life History of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Series 5 - Vyasa Rajar

There was a place named Pannur near Cauvery river close to Karnataka. There were a elderly couple - Ramacharya and Seethamma who was living in that village and they were praying to God to give them the blessings for a child. For several years they did not had child and they were also becoming old. However they did not lost their faith and they kept praying to God.

One fine day, there was a saint named Brahma Theerthar who came to that village.  The couple met him and requested his blessings. He knew their problem and he told them that they will have 2 childrens, however they have to give him their first child to him. The couple agreed to this and got his blessings.

Few days later, as per the blessings of Brahma Theerthar, the couple delivered a baby boy. With-in few days, Brahma Theerthar came to them requesting for the baby. The couple as promised, happily gave the baby to Braha Theerthar.

he took the baby with him and named him as Vyasa rajar and took him to the cave near by. He took care of Vyasa rajar's growth and taught him all the slokas.
After certain age, Brahma Theerthar sent Vyasa rajar to Sri Padarayar for his Guru kula. As per the wish of Brahma Theerthar, Vyasa rajar went to the Guru kula and leart all the skills and returned back after 20+ years.

After this Vyasa Rajar took the sanyasa and looked after Sri madam. He had lot of diciples and few to name as Kanagadasar, Vijayendra theerthar, vadharajar and puranthara dasar. We can see each of them in detail later.  Vijayendra theerthar was one of the very blessed diciple because he has seen both Vyasa Rajar and Sri Sri Baghavan Raghavendra swamy. He was a diciple to Raghavendra Swamy's previous incarnation ( Vyasa Rajar) and he was also Parama Guru ( Guru's Guru) of Sri Raghavendara Swamy.

During his guru gula days, Patha rayar used to do a pooja on a daily basis. One day he asked Vyasa rajar to do the pooja. Vyasa rajar also went to the pooja room and when making arrangements he found a box locked. This box was there in that pooja room for long time and it was not able to be opened by anyone. Vyasa rajar open the box and took the gopala krishna status from that and he started to recite Keerthana on lord Krishna. Lord became very happy and he started to dance for the keerthana's. When this was happening, Patha rayar heard the keerthana and came into the room to see what is happening. When Patha rayar entered the room the status stopped dancing ( infact it is being said that the pose at which Lord Krishna stopped dancing was having right foot over the left which is not the right way as per Natya sasthra).

In another occasion, there were group of people who wanted to spoil the name of Vyasa rajar and they arranged a cook to add poison in the food that was being prepared to serve to lord during Moola Rama pooja. On that particular day, Vyasa Rajar also prepared the arrangements for Moola Rama Pooja and he gave the food to the lord ( Neivedyam). After which this food should be given as prashad to all the devotees who have gathered there. During this time, the cook felt bad about his act and informed Vyasa rajar about the poison in the food. However Vyasa Rajar ignored him and took the food which had poison in it. Nothing happened to Vyasa rajar and by this we can know that how much he was devoted to Lord. If we recall in Guru Raghavendra Swamy's 1st incarnation as Prahalad, we encountered similar poison situation.

Vyasa Rajar has also visited Thirumala several times and whenever he goes there, he prefers to go through his knees than his foot. This shows his bakthi towards lord Venkatesa. He spent close to 12 years in Thirumala doing Pooja's for Lord Venkatesa.

Also during Krishnadeva rayar's period, Vyasa Rajar was the guru in his kingdom. Due to previous sins that he made, he had a severe Dosha and this dosha will affect King on a certain amavasya day when he is sitting on the throne. Inorder to save the King Vyasa Rajar became the king for one day and he destroyed the dosha and saved the King.

Vyasa Rajar has also done several litrary works but unfortunately most of them are not available now. Vyasa Rajar went into brindavan near Nava brindavana which is being visited by several devotees.

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Life History of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Series 4 - Bahlika Raja

The next incarnation of SanghuKarna was in Dvapara Yuga, born as Bahlika Raja. Bahlika Raja was the son of Pratipa and the elder brother of King Santanu (father of Bheeshma) lived during Dvapara Yuga. He is the grandfather to both Kaurava and Pandavas.

He was a great devotee of Lord Krishna, but due to circumstances beyond his control (associate with Kouravas in the Kurukshetra war because of his alliance with Bheeshma and Dhritharastra) he ended up fighting against the Pandavas . He wanted to die at the hands of Bheema and to challenged him to a fight, but Bheema was reluctant to hurt a devotee of the Lord. Bahlika begged him to kill him so that he could take future births and serve him ( Bheema or Madhvacharya ) with devotion.

Bheema agreed to do that provided Bahlika hit the first blow. When Bahlika did as directed, Bheema hit him gently with his formidable mace. Thus Bahlika got the death he wanted, a heart full of devotion towards Lord Krishna, and the divine sight of Krishna and Bheema at the time of his death.

In the next series we will see about the next incarnation, Sri Vyasarajar.

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Life History of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Series 3 - Narashima Avatar

After the boon that Hiranyakashipu received from Lord Brahma, he went and tortured all the sages and asked everyone to recite his name instead of Lord Vishnu. As days go by, his torture were not bearable.During this phase, his wife Kayadhu became pregnant. Hiranyakashipu was very happy with this and he wanted to build his son in his roots to rule the world. However his wife was really not happy with the way how his husband is treating sages and people who recite Lord Vishnu name. In the meantime lets see why HiranyaKashipu was trying to kill Lord Vishu.

As mentioned in the previous series, his brother Hiranyakshan was ruling the asuras world and tortured the sages and people. In one stage he took the entire earth and placed it is a under the water which was not traceable. This is not the sea that we have in the earth. This is called a dark space in the universe.
When all the devas and sages went to Lord Vishu to rescue them, Lord Vishnu took the Varaha avataram and rescued the earth from the underwater and killed Hiranyakshan. Because of this Hiranyakashnu wanted to kill everyone who recites Lord Vishnu name.

In this phase, Naradha muni came before his wife who was very upset. In order to keep her cool, Lord Naradha muni started to tell the stories of Lord Vishnu and the power of reciting "OM NAMO NARAYANAYA NAMAHA". While Hiranyakashipu's wife heard these stories, the womb in her stomach affected by the transcendental instructions of the sage even at such a young stage of development.

As days went by, his wife delivered a beautiful baby boy. Hiranyakashpu was very happy and he was celebrating this with all his men. Days went by and the kid was named as Prahaladha. He was very calm and devoted to Lord Vishnu.At the right age, Hiranyakashipu wanted to put him under a guru to learn vedas and
other information to rule the asura dynasty. However when Guru asked Prahalada to recite Hiranyakashipu's name, he recited "OM NAMO NARAYANAYA NAMAHA". Prahalada never changed on what he said and guru became so tired and went and told this to Hiranyakashipu. Hiranyakashipu asked Prahalada to tell his name but he told only Lord Vishnu's name. This made him very unhappy and he ordered his servents to place Prahalada before elephant which will run over him. However when they tried this elephant stopped and bowed before Prahalada.

Soon after this, Hiranyakashipu ordered his servents to roll Prahalada from the mountain, again with the blessings of Lord Vishnu , Prahalada returned without any injury.This again made Hiranyakashipu very angry and he ordered his wife to give him a food which contains poison prepared by himself. Kayadhu was really worried and she was crying and struggling with Hiranyakashipu who never listed to her. She then went and asked
Prahalada to obey his father words. But with a smile, Prahalada told that Lord Vishnu is save guarding him and nothing will happen to him. He himself took the food and ate him. But poison never affected Prahalada. This made Hiranyakashipu very angry and he asked Prahalada that if Lord Vishnu is saving you show me where he is.

For this Prahalada told that Lord Vishnu is everywhere, He is in pillars, and he is in the least twig. When Hiranyakashipu heard this, he right away hit the pillar before him and Lord Vishnu appeared in the Narashima avarata. He was so furious that everyone afraid of him. Hiranyakashipu fighted with Lord
Narashima and at the end Lord came upon Hiranyakashipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night) on the threshold of a courtyard (neither indoors nor out), and placed Hiranyakashipu on his lap (neither earth nor space) and used his nails as weapons, he disembowels and killed him.

Even after killing him, no one ( including all the devas ) were not able to calm the lord. At the end Lord Brahma took Prahalada near Lord Narashima and finally Lord Narashima was calmed by prayers of his devotees and Prahalada.

The story of Prahlada gives
God prevails everywhere.
God will always save his devotees.
Devotion can be practised at any point of time. Age does not matter.
Constant faith in God leads to devotion.

In the next series we will see the other 2 incarnations of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy.

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Life History of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Series 2 - Hiranyakashipu

The list of Incarnations of our Baghavan are
SanghuKarna
Prahalatha
Bahlika Raja  ( Dwapara Yuga)
Vyasaraja and
Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy

There is also a saying there is one more incarnation between Sri Prahalatha & Vyasararaja namely Bahileka Raja in Dwapara Yuga, however I am trying to find more information on this. Once I get the details, I will update the series accordingly.

As per the punishment from Lord Brahma, SanghuKarna was born in Asura family in Kritya yuga. He was born in the Hiranyas family. ( Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha)

These two were born to Diti (daughter of Daksha Prajapathi) and sage Kashyapa. It is said that asuras were born to them as a result of their union at the time of dusk, which was said to be an inauspicious time for such a deed

As per baghavata purana, both these Hiranyas were once gate keepers for Lord Vishnu namely Jaya & Vijaya. There were ended up in the asuras family because of the curse from Lord Brahma's kumaras namely Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana and Sanatkumara.

These four kumaras are the highest of sages who were born from the mind of Lord Brahma.

Hiranyakashipu is one of the asuras who has ruled the asuras dynasty. He was very angry with Lord Vishnu and his only aim was Lord Vishnu. He know that he cannot do it without good boons. He went ahead and did a penance to propitiate Lord Brahma and gain a boon from him like other rakshasas. Lord Brahma was very happy with this and he appeared before Hranyakashipu and requested him what he want. He rightaway asked him that he should not have death. Lord Brahma replied that "whoever is born in the earth should face the death one day, so ask me someother boon".

Hiranyakashipu was waiting for this turn and he rightaway asked the boon that he had planned ahead of time. He asked that
"Grant me that I not die within any residence or outside any residence, during the daytime or at night, nor on the ground or in the sky. Grant me that my death not be brought by any being other than those created by you, nor by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by any great snake from the lower planets. Since no one can kill you in the battlefield, you have no competitor. Therefore, grant me the benediction that I too may have no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give me all the mystic powers attained by long austerities and the practice of yoga, for these cannot be lost at any time"

Lord Brahma granted this wish to Hiranyakashipu. With this Hiranyakashipu was very happy and he went ahead and ruled the entire ausras dynasty. Evenone feared about him and this further added fuel to his thoughts

In next series we will see why Hiranyakashipu wanted to fight with Lord Vishnu.

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Life History of Baghavan Guru Raghavendra Swamy - Series 1 - Deva SanghuKarna

With the blessings of Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy, I will start writing a series that covers the details of Baghavan's life history. I will post one series per week. I wish this series will help our devotees and all others to understand more about our Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy and will help them to lead a good life as defined by Puranas & Vedas and reach Guru's lotus feet which is the ultimate for ones birth on this universe. Here is the series.
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Our Guru is one of the Kamadhenu who lives in the hearts of his devotees and will be like a Kamadhenu who gives all the best things to his belivers whereever they are.

Before we get to know on our Guru's life history, lets try to understand his previous incarnations in brief.

Lord Brahma usually does a Pooja to Lord Vishnu everyday. In the Brahma Loka we have lot of Devathas who help Lord Brahma to do the Pooja for Lord Vishnu. One such Devatha is SanghuKarna. He does one of very important job of bringing the flowers to the Pooja. One fine day , SanghuKarna had a delay to bring the flowers on time and this has annoyed Lord Brahma as he was not able to perform the pooja on time. When Devatha ShanghuKarna came late, Brahma did not asked any question and punished him that he will be born in the Asuras family. SanghuKarna was really worried because of this punishment and he was Lord Brahma to forgive him however once the punishment has been given nothing can be done.

On that night devatha SanghuKarna was sitting outside and he was worried. When Nartha muni went that way, SanghuKarna asked him that why he has been punished by Lord Brahma so severely. Naradha muni said that do not consider this as a punishment. This is the blessing for the good work that you have been doing. Lord Vishnu wanted you to be born in the earth in asuras family which is going to be a main reason for Lord Vishnu for one of his incarnation.

When Devatha SanghuKarna heard this he was very happy that he will be one of the main reason for Lord Vishnu's avatara in the earth.

In the next series we will see as how SanghuKarna was born in asuras family and how this helped Lord Vishnu's avatar and how many incarnations that Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy has before he was born as as Raghavendra Swamy.

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eSeva Portal for Mantralayam Guru Raghavendra Swamy

Dear Devotees,

Mantralayam Raghavendra Swamy Mutt has launched the eSeva Portal for Baghavan Raghavendra Swamy. Below is the link. You need to register it into the website to use the eSeva activities.


http://www.raghavendramutt.org/content/e-seva-portal-launched

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Manusmrti - Dharmasastra

Manusmrti also known Dharmasastra, the most important and earliest metrical work of the textual tradition of Hinduism known as the Laws of Manu. Manu became the standard point of reference for all future Dharmaśāstras that followed it.
According to Hindu tradition, the Manusmriti records the words of Brahma.By attributing the words to supernatural forces, the text takes on an authoritative tone as a statement on Dharma.

The treatise is written with a frame story, in which a dialogue takes place between Manu’s disciple, Bhrigu, and an audience of his own students. The story begins with Manu himself detailing the creation of the world and the society within it, structured around four social classes. Bhrigu takes over for the remainder of the work, teaching the details of the rest of Manu’s teachings.

This Table of Contents Manu Smriti are

Origin of the World
Sources of the Law
Dharma of the Four Social Classes
      Rules Relating to Law
      Rules of Action in Normal Times
      Fourfold Dharma of a Brahmin
      Rules of Action for a King
      Rules of Action for Vaisyas and sudras
      Rules of Action in Times of Adversity
      Rules Relating to Penance

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List of Ekadashi Vrata Days - Apr 2011 - Mar 2012

April - 

04.2011 :  Thursday   : Ekadashi

 29.04.2011 Friday  : Ekadashi

May

14.05.2011 Saturday : Ekadashi

28.05.2011 Saturday : Ekadashi

June

12.06.2011 Sunday   :Ekadashi

27.06.2011 Monday :Ekadashi

July

11.07.2011 Monday : Ekadashi

August

09.08.2011 Tuesday : Ekadashi

25.08.2011 Thursday  : Ekadashi

September

08.09.2011 Thursday : Ekadashi

23.09.2011 Friday Ekadashi

October

07.10.2011 Friday : Ekadashi

23.10.2011 Sunday : Ekadashi

November

06.11.2011 Sunday : Ekadashi

21.11.2011 Monday : Ekadashi

December

06.12.2011 Tuesday : Ekadashi
Geeta Jayanti. One can initiate Vishnu Panchaka Vrata on this day.

21.12.2011 Wednesday Ekadashi

January

04.01.2012 Wednesday : DASHAMI ANUSHTANA

05.01.2012 Thursday : Ekadashi (Vaikuntha Ekadashi.)

19.01.2012 Thursday : SEkadashi

February

03.02.2012 Friday : Ekadashi

18.02.2012 Saturday : Ekadashi

March

04.03.2012 Sunday : Ekadashi

18.03.2012 Sunday : Ekadashi

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Mantralayam - Trip pictures

I had been blessed by  Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy to visit Mantralayam for the first time in Feb 2011. I became a devote of Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy 3 years back and when I visited India , I made sure to go to Mantralayam. It has been a very good experience and I had a great Darshan of Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy.
This is a sure place to visit at least once in a life time to feel the experience of the vibration in this area.

If you have plan to visit in near future, please spend sometime there in the Mutt with meditation as there are very good vibes. In this blog, I am posting few pictures of my Mantralayam visit.

This is the Tungabadra river and parisal to cross the river to visit Bichali and Panchamuki Anjeneyar. Earlier we had a bridge to cross the river, but due to severe floods in 2009, the bridge was complete gone and this is the only mode of commutation. They charge 40 Rs per person for a round trip.

Main entrance of Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy mutt... All are newly painted after the flood situation

Other side of the Tungabadra river. We need to cross the river to visit Panchamukhi Anjeneyar temple and Bichali. There is not much water in the river and it is not much deep. Only risk of walking across the river is the rocks. It takes 20 Min's to cross the river with Parisal. Once you crossed it, you can get an auto to visit these 2 places. However after the flood situation, the roads are very very bad. Govt should do something to reconstruct the roads. It will be very difficult for old people to travel in auto. Generally you can rent auto separately or share the auto. They charge Rs 50 per person for round trip. If you rent it separately for your family it will be expense but a better journey

Main entrance of Panchamukhi Anjeneyar temple.

Below description informs the devotees that Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy spent 12 years in Penance in this cave. Below picture also shows the foot print of Anjeneyar swamy. You can also see lots of monkeys in this area but they as always they are not harmful.

Naturally formed rock close to Panchamukhi Anjeneyar temple.

Main entrance of Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy Mutt.

Newly renovated Machali Amman temple. Please make sure to visit this temple before entering Bagavan Raghavendra Swamy Mutt

Mantralyam Mutt Administrative office to pay and buy tickets for sevas, donations etc

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Shri Moola Ramar

Below note is from www.gururaghavendra1.org. Wanted to post for the benefit of Guru's devotees

Brahma delights in constantly worshipping the Lord in various forms and manners. He once got the divine sculptor Vishvakarma to prepare an authentic icon of Lord Rama in accordance with scriptures. He worshipped this for a long time and then handed it over to another celestial for worshipping. This continued for a long time and eventually, in the course of time, the icon landed in the Sun dynasty (Surya Vamsha). Dasharatha, one of the emperors in this dynasty, performed Putra Kameshti Yaga (a sacrifice performed to obtain offspring) and had 4 sons. The eldest amongst these was the Lord Himself. Dashratha named his first son as Ramachandra, in honor of the icon that his family had traditionally worshipped. From then on, the word ‘Rama’ was used to identify Dasharatha’s son , and the icon got a new name ‘Moola Rama’.



The Moola Rama icon was reverently worshipped by Sita, Sri Hanumanta, and others. During the Dwapara Yuga the icon ended up in the Moon Dynasty (Chandra Vamsha) and was worshipped by Bhimasena. With the course of time, it kept changing hands until it reached the Orissa kingdom. From there,  it finally reached the hands of Sri Madhvacharya. He worshipped it with great reverence and devotion. Thus all the three incarnations of Vayu, and Brahma, have worshipped this icon. After Sri Madhvacharya, the icon was in turn worshipped by Sri Padmanabha teertha, Sri Narahari teertha, Sri Madhava teertha and Sri Akshobhya teertha, and by Sri Jaya teertha (Teeka Rayaru) and other saints who adorned this glorious lineage. This is the history of the Moola Rama icon that is today resplendent in the Rayara Matha, acting as the cynosure of all eyes.



This glorious history has been beautifully captured in a moving Suladi (form of poetry) by the great savant Sri Vijaya dasaru. Sri Raghavendra Vijaya (a stirring poem that documents the life history of Sri Raghavendra Swamiji) stipulates that only celestials, born as humans, can worship this icon. It also says worship of the icon blesses the surrounding regions with good fortune, wealth and well-being. Another great savant, Helavanakatte Giriyamma, personally witnessed the glory of Lord Rama, when Sri Sumateendra teertha was worshipping the icon.


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14 different Lokas

Follow-up from the previous hinduism series, below are additional information on the 14 lokas

Higher Seven Lokas : 

Gods and mortals live in these worlds

1 Satyaloka: This is also called as Brahma's loka. Satya-loka planetary system is not eternal. Abode of Truth or of Brahma, where souls will be sent back for the necessity of rebirth.


2 Tapaloka: Abode of tapas or of other deities. All the sages who have attained with the bless of their tapas live in this world. Ayohnija devadas live here.

3 Janaloka: Abode of the sons of God Brahma.

4 Maharloka: The abode of great sages and enlightened beings like Markendeya and other rishies are living in this loka.

5 Svarloka: Region between the sun and polar star, the heaven of the god Indra. Indra, devatas, Rishies, Gandharvas and Apsaras live here: a heavenly paradise of pleasure, where all the 330 million Hindu devas  reside along with the king of devas, Indra.

6 Bhuvarloka (aka Pitri Loka): Sun, planets, stars. Space between earth and the sun, inhabited by semi-divine beings. This is a real region, the atmosphere, the life-force.

7 Bhurloka: Man and animals live here. The Vishnu Purana says that the earth is merely one
of thousands of billions of inhabited worlds like itself to be found in the universe.

Different realms of Patala are ruled by different demons and Nagas; usually with the Nagas headed by Vasuki assigned to the lowest realm.Vayu Purana records each realm of Patala has cities in it.

Seven lower level lokas

8 Atalaloka: Atala is ruled by Bala - a son of Maya - who possesses mystical powers. By one yawn, Bala created three types of women - svairi ("self-willed"), who like to marry men from their own group; kāmi ("lustful"), who marry men from any group, and the third ("whorish"), who keep changing their partners. When a man enters Atala, these women enchant him and serve him an intoxicating cannabis drink that induces sexual energy in the man. Then, these women enjoy sexual play with the traveller, who feels to be stronger than ten thousand elephants and forgets impending death.

9 Vitalaloka: Vitala is ruled by the god Hara-Bhava - a form of Shiva, who dwells with attendant ganas including ghosts and goblins as the master of gold mines. The residents of this realm are adorned with gold from this region.

10 Sutalaloka: Sutala is the kingdom of the pious demon king Bali.


11 Talatalaloka: Talatala is the realm of the demon-architect Maya, who is well-versed in sorcery. Shiva, as destroyed the three cities of Maya but was later pleased with Maya and gave him this realm and promised to protect him.


12 Mahatalaloka: Mahatala is the abode of many-hooded Nagas (serpents) - the sons of Kadru, headed by the Krodhavasha band of Kuhaka, Taksshaka, Kaliya and Sushena. They live here with their families in peace but always fear Garuda.

13 Rasatalaloka: Rasatala is the home of the demons - Danavas and Daityas, who are mighty but cruel. They are the eternal foes of Devas (the gods). They live in holes like serpents.

14 Patalaloka: The lowest realm is called Patala or Nagaloka, the region of the Nagas, ruled by Vasuki. Here live several Nagas with many hoods. Each of their hood is decorated by a jewel, whose light illuminates this realm.

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