brahmaloka brahman world : the first of the eight lōkas or regions of material existence recognised by the Sāṅkhya & Vedanta schools of philosophy. It is, says Sri Aurobindo, the “world of the Brahman in which it [the soul] is one with the infinite existence & yet in a sense still a soul able to enjoy differentiation in the oneness”; & “the condition of being near to Hiraṇyagarbhā in the causal body”.
... the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha which is beyond the dual symbols of birth and death, the higher Brahman-worlds of the Mundaka which the soul enters by knowledge... find it there, we have to put it in by force, for the actual language used favours instead the conclusion of other Vedantic systems, which considered the goal to be the eternal joy of the soul in a Brahmaloka or world of the Brahman in which it is one with the infinite existence and yet in a sense still a soul able to enjoy differentiation in the oneness. In the next verse we have the culmination of ...
... the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka, of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha which is beyond the dual symbols of birth and death, the higher Brahman-worlds of the Mundaka which the soul enters by knowledge ...
... not. But since the movement of our consciousness in the state of our physical sleep is ceaseless and uninterrupted except for that occasional and brief interregnum when our being retires into Brahmaloka, into "a sort of Sachchidananda immobility of consciousness" 1 , we are always dreaming at the time of sleep irrespective of whether we are mentally conscious of it or not. In fact, what... succession of states of progressively deepening sleep-consciousness to reach at last "a pure Sachchidananda state of complete rest, light and silence" 2 , a state of "su ṣ upti in the Brahman or Brahmaloka" 3 and retraces one's way, after a brief stay there, to come back again to the waking physical state. Referring to this state of "luminous and peaceful and dreamless rest", 4 the Mother ...
... human frame assumed by Radha and Krishna is not merely an assumption, an illusion but an eternal reality in an eternal domain. The gradation of the spiritual domains is thus sometimes given as (1) Brahmaloka of the Vedantin, (2) Shivaloka of the Tantrik and finally (3) Goloka of the Vaishnava. The relation between the Supreme (over and above the creation) and the individual in the creation representing ...
... the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha which is beyond the dual symbols of birth and death, the higher Brahman-worlds of the Mundaka which the soul enters by knowledge ...
... higher worlds — from the Sun to the Moon, then to the Stars, then to the Gods and the King of Gods, then to the Creator of the Page 22 Gods and the peoples 1 and finally to the Brahmaloka (the world of the One Supreme Transcendent Reality). Gargi still continued and asked again: "Upon what is Brahman woven?" To this Yajnavalkya cried halt and warned her: "Now, Gargi, your questioning ...
... successively through higher and higher worlds ― from the Sun to the Moon, then to the Stars, then to the Gods and the King of Gods, then to the Creator of the Gods and the peoples ¹ and finally to the Brahmaloka (the world of the One Supreme Transcendent Reality). Gargi still continued and asked again: "Upon what is Brahman woven?" To this Yajnavalkya cried halt and warned her: "Now, Gargi, your questioning ...
... The compatibility persists as a vital element in the Upanishads where often there is talk of Brahmaloka and not just Brahman. The context in which Yajnavalkya and Janaka figure with their "That which is free from fear" (a Rigvedic echo) is, I think, particularly rich in reference to Brahmaloka. Indeed Yajnavalkya is a denizen par excellence of both the Here and the Yonder: with one hand he ...
... later ages. The compatibility persists as a vital element in the Upanishads where often there is talk of Brahmaloka and not just Brahman. The context in which Yajnavalkya and Janaka figure with their "That which is free From fear" is, I think, particularly rich in reference to Brahmaloka. Indeed Yajnavalkya is a denizen par excellence of both the Here and the Yonder: with one hand he keeps ...
... × Jaimini's idea of liberation is the eternal Brahmaloka in which the soul that has come to know Brahman still possesses a divine body and divine enjoyments. For the Gita the Brahmaloka is not liberation; the soul must pass beyond to the supracosmic status. ...
... felt by all mystics, an irreducible imperfection in our members that compels us ultimately to drop them and look for the end of our soul's journey in a plane that is not terrestrial - a Vedantic Brahmaloka, a Buddhist Nirvana, a Vaishnavite Gokula or Heaven. Sri Aurobindo says that if the universe is meant to be the Divine's manifestation, there must lie in the bosom of the Spirit the secret of the ...
... 7 below. Gandharva (beauty). Yaksha (pleasure). Kinnara (fantasy). Aghora (samata). Swadhina (freedom). Deva (love). Asura (might & glory) from lowest to highest 9 above. Vaikuntha, Goloka, Brahmaloka, Meruloka, Visva-devaloka (Karmadevatas), Ganaloka, Jnanaloka from top to bottom Page 1280 [ . . . ] = Suryaloka. Swar—Chandraloka & Swarga. Jana, Tapah & Satya above Swar—Chandra ...
... mystic or occult stairs or ladders or slopes in view, but he had also examples such as Dante's progress through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in his Divina Commedia, Hanuman's passage through Brahmaloka, Rajatalaya, Shakralaya, Brahmashiras, Vahnyalaya, Vaishravanalaya, Suryaprabha-Suryanibhandana, Brahmalaya and Vrisha in the Ramayana, 113 and Gilgamesh's voyage through darkness in quest ...
... Arabian Sea; it is over its ruins that in another age Krishna built his Dwaraka. Revat lived in Treta Yuga when men mingled freely with gods. Princess Revati accompanied her father. "So he went to the Brahmaloka and he was entertained with a song by an Apsara. After the song was over Brahma asked about the object of his visit. Revat asked about his daughter's marriage and suggested certain names. Brahma ...
... takes that not as a disproof of the Divine Existence, but as a greater spur for seeking and finding it out. He may seek it as a means of escape from life and entry into Nirvana or moksha or Goloka, Brahmaloka or Vaikuntha; he may seek the divine Self and its peace or Ananda behind existence and if he attains to that and is satisfied with it he can move through the world untouched by its vicissitudes and ...
... its true substance. And its exquisiteness consists in its being human in form. The Vedantin's Maya does not touch it, it is beyond the illusory consciousness. For they say Goloka stands above Brahmaloka. The Christian conception of God-man is also extremely beautiful and full of meaning. God became man: He sent down upon earth his own and only Son to live among men as man. This indeed is His ...
... in its true substance. And its exquisiteness consists in its being human in form. The Vedantin's Maya does not touch it, it is beyond the illusory consciousness. For they say Goloka stands above Brahmaloka. The Christian conception of God-man is also extremely beautiful and full of meaning. God became man: He sent down upon earth his own and only Son to live among men as man. This indeed is His ...
... unknown and ineffable heavenly regions in samadhi, but no descent possible—therefore no resource, no possibility of transformation here, only escape Page 378 from life and mukti in Goloka, Brahmaloka, Shivaloka or the Absolute. Perhaps you are of the opinion of Ramana Maharshi, "The Divine is here, how can he descend from anywhere?" The Divine may be here, but if he has covered here his ...
... only for ten minutes, the rest of the time is taken up by travelling to that and travelling back again to the waking state. I suppose the ten minutes sleep can be called suṣupti in the Brahman or Brahmaloka, the rest is svapna Page 442 or passage through other worlds (planes or states of conscious existence). It is these ten minutes that restore the energies of the being, and without it... sleep itself is unable to record the dreams and transmit them to the physical mind. As a matter of fact the whole sleep is full of dreams. It is only during the brief time in which one is in the Brahmaloka that the dreams cease. Getting Good Sleep The sleep before 12 is supposed to be the best. To sleep without a burdened stomach is obviously more healthy, both psychologically and physically ...
... coming short in actual spiritual experience that has created the tremendous obstacle to a keen and clear recognition of the élan towards harmony. Yet the élan is there. "Thou art That", "Brahmaloka is here and now", "The Kingdom of God is within you", "I and my Father are one" - all these words are trying to let that élan find voice. The Vedic search for the Sun lost in the cave of ...
... to make any futile attempt at embodying or manifesting a higher consciousness here upon earth — but rather to escape from life, to get away from earth into some other higher world like Goloka, Brahmaloka, Shiva-loka, or perhaps to seek mukti and mok ṣ a in some supreme Absolute. The spiritual history of man abounds in views, expressed in different terms, epitomizing this conception ...
... are joined in one great consensus that not in this world of the dualities can there be our kingdom of heaven, but beyond, whether in the joys of the eternal Vrindavan 3 or the high beatitude of Brahmaloka, 4 beyond all manifestations in some ineffable Nirvana 5 or where all separate experience is lost in the featureless unity of the indefinable Existence. And through many centuries a great army ...
... existence which to the old Vedic seers were the worlds of illuminated divine existence and the foundation of what they termed Immortality and which later Indian religions imaged in figures like the Brahmaloka or Goloka, some supreme self-expression of the Being as Spirit in which the soul liberated into its highest perfection possesses the infinity and beatitude of the eternal Godhead. The principle ...
... the hours of sleep is concerned. For that we have to become conscious masters of another significant phenomenon of our sleep-life: the possibility of entrance into the "su ṣ upti of Brahman or Brahmaloka." 2 (C) Attainment of Sachchidananda immobility : Once before, we have already made a passing reference to this state of luminous rest in sleep. As a matter of fact, for sleep ...
... belonging to (all) the four grades of society to follow their respective duties on this terrestrial plane. (94-96) Having served his kingdom for eleven thousand years, Srī Rāma will ascend to Brahmaloka (the highest heaven). (97) He who reads this sacred narrative of Srī Rāma, which is capable of purifying the mind and wiping out sins and is treated on par with the Vedas, is completely absolved ...
... into divine consciousness and a transformation of earth life by the divine consciousness coming down here. All the old Yogas put the emphasis on going to Nirvana or to heaven, Vaikuntha, Goloka, Brahmaloka etc. for good and so getting rid of rebirth. My emphasis is on life here and its transformation and I put that as the aim at once of my Yoga and of the terrestrial manifestation. I am quite unaware ...
... saints and holy persons each busy with his own occupation, some studying, some meditating, some assembled in a group engaged in conversation and so on. We too, we have in India many heavenly lokas, Brahmaloka, Shivaloka, Vishnuloka, Janaloka, Goloka, inhabited by various types of gods and spiritual siddhas. We have Hell too in India, an underworld Patala or Rasatala – they are supposed to be seven in ...
... existence the same principle holds; the soul may fall asleep in a trance of self-absorption, dwell in an ineffable intensity of God-possession, live in the highest glory of its own plane,—the Anandaloka, Brahmaloka, Vaikuntha, Goloka of various Indian systems,—even turn upon the lower worlds to fill them with its own light and power and beatitude. In the eternal worlds and more and more in all worlds above ...
... This inverted Pantheism is the outer aspect of the Rigveda, and it is therefore that the Rigveda unlike the Upanishad may lead either to the continuation of bondage or to Brahmaloka, while the Upanishad can lead only to Brahmaloka or to the Brahman Himself. THE STUDENT But the new scholarship tells us that the Rigveda is either henotheistic or polytheistic, not real Pantheism. THE GURU Nay,... and at will draw into Parabrahman; since the two are in no sense two but one, in no sense subject to Avidya but on the other side of Avidya. Then if it be said that निष्काम कर्म can only lead to Brahmaloka and not mukti, I still answer that in that case we must suppose that Srikrishna after he left his body, remained separate from the Supreme and therefore was not Bhagavan at all but only a great ... ideas & impressions are such as to associate the self with the higher understanding & the bliss of the Self, the soul passes quickly to a sattwic condition of highest bliss which we call Heaven or Brahmaloka and thence it does not return. But if we have learned to identify for ever the self with the Self, then before death we become God and after death we shall not be other. For there are three states ...
... Sarat Chandra Chatterji, translated by Dilip and revised by Sri Aurobindo. 102. Goloka is the Vaishnava heaven of eternal Beauty and Bliss. Page 399 Literally the world of Light. Brahmaloka is the world of Brahman : the highest state of pure existence and consciousness attainable by the soul without complete extinction in the indefinable. Vaikuntha is the world of Vishnu. 103. ...
... on that basis. In India this attitude has played a great part and men have been told to reject life in order to attain spiritual perfection. Perfect and eternal bliss is to be attained in the Brahmaloka, on the plane of the Infinite by merging into it. It is argued that in order to attain knowledge one must withdraw from ignorance which prevails in life. So, renunciation is said to be the sole ...
... not the escape from all conflict. Buddha and Shankara supposed the world to be radically false and miserable; therefore escape from the world was to them the only wisdom. But this world is Brahman, the world is God, the world is Satyam, the world is Ananda; it is our misreading of the world through mental egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong relation with God in the world that is a misery. There ...
... ascent possibly to unknown and ineffable heavenly regions in samadhi, but no descent possible—therefore no resource, no possibility of transformation here, only escape from life and mukti in Goloka, Brahmaloka, Shivaloka or the Absolute. 11 June 1936 What good is the dynamic descent if it needs years and years merely to touch the heart centre? What exactly is this descent? It is a thing which ...
... not know the country (aksetrajnd) might wander about and pass over a hidden hoard of gold time and again without finding it, so do all these creatures go on day after day without finding the Brahman-world within them, for they are led astray by unreality." Zaehner comments: "To find this treasure within is the overriding passion of Hindu and Buddhist alike; for 'this is the Self, exempt from evil ...
... ousness to reach at last what Page 318 Sri Aurobindo has termed as "a pure Sacchidananda state of compete rest, light and silence," a state of " susupti in the Brahman or Brahmaloka" (Ibid., p. 1484), and retraces one's way after a brief stay there, to come back again to the waking physical state. Referring to this state of "luminous and peaceful and dream-less slumber ...
... al world of their choice, may come back to the terrestrial plane in another human Page 90 embodiment, or may not do so but stay permanently in any desired supernal world such as Brahmaloka, Vishnuloka, Sivaloka, etc., or crossing the bounds of all cosmic manifestation may pass beyond time and space and merge in the Transcendent Absolute. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "[The Jivanmukta] ...
... are such as to associate the self with the higher understanding and bliss of the Self, the soul passes quickly to a condition of highest bliss which we call variously Kailas, Vaikuntha, Goloka or Brahmaloka, from which it does not return in this aeon of the Page 214 universe. But if we have learned to identify for ever the self with the Self, then before death we become the Eternal and after ...
... a spiritual practice, called Integral Yoga, demanding the mastery of the whole range of yogas perfected before and recognised as valid, a mastery not to reach liberation, Nirvana, the Absolute or Brahmaloka, but intending the transformation of this whole problematical planet and the founding of heaven here. With the intention of transforming the body, even, of becoming embodied gods on the Earth, of ...
... this context, the essential condition and content of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental Yoga. If the aim of the yoga were to be only an escape from the world to God or to the inactive Brahman or world-negating Nirvana or Nihil, synthesis is unnecessary and a waste of time. But, as Sri Aurobindo points out, if our aim is to attain a complete and harmonious integration and also the transformation ...
... As it is “integral,” it takes up the essence and many processes of the old yogas, but it is new in its aim (the transformation and divinization of human nature); its standpoint (if all is the Brahman, the world and the body in which we are incarnated is also the Brahman; instead of the search for escape, the appreciation of their Work must lead to an understanding and realization of their purposes); ...
... the Para and the Apara Vidya, the knowledge of Brahman in Himself and the knowledge of the world; but the Yogin, reversing the order of the worldly mind, seeks to know Brahman first and through Brahman the world. Scientific knowledge, worldly information & instruction are to him secondary objects, not as it is with the ordinary scholar & scientist, his primary aim. Nevertheless these too we must take ...
... takes that not as a disproof of the Divine Existence, but as a greater spur for seeking and finding it out. He may seek it as a means of escape from life and entry into Nirvana or moksha or Goloka, Brahmaloka or Vaikuntha;' 102 he may seek the divine Self and its peace or Ananda behind existence and if he attains to that and is satisfied with it he can move through the world untouched by its vicissitudes... into divine consciousness and a transformation of earth life by the divine consciousness coming down here. All the old Yogas put the emphasis on going to Nirvana or to heaven, Vaikuntha, Goloka, Brahmaloka, etc. for good and so getting rid of rebirth. My emphasis is on life here and its transformation and I put that as the aim at once of my Yoga and of the terrestrial manifestation. I am quite unaware ...
... wealth and the poverty which matter or are real, but only the feeling of the presence of the Lord in all things. That is one way in which I can enjoy the world by abandoning it; for the world is Brahman, the world is the Lord, and to him who has experience of it, all things are bliss, all things are enjoyment. What ground then is there left for coveting another man's possessions? Harischandra possesses ...
... divine & universal Force & Bliss at free play in the divine & universal Being. The world is to the Mayavadin a freak of knowledge, an error on the surface of Self, a misconception of mind about Brahman; the world to the Seer is a running symbol of God and a means for His phenomenal self-manifestation in His own active being & to His own active knowledge. God, being unbound by His own activity and its ...
... create out of nothing, it manifests all out of its own being, endlessly. “Brahman is in all things, all things are in Brahman, all things are Brahman.” 14 Out of its inexhaustible riches, Brahman creates worlds without number, peopled with beings without number, all sharing in the Existence, Consciousness-Force and Joy according to their place in the universal hierarchy. For those worlds Sri Aurobindo ...
... and from life in all its aspects is. “Buddha and Shankara supposed the world to be radically false and miserable; therefore escape from the world was to them the only wisdom. But this world is Brahman, the world is God, the world is Satyam, the world is Ananda; it is our misreading of the world through mental egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong relation with God in the world that is a misery. There ...
... the wheel of rebirth, Maya.” 40 – “Buddha and Shankara supposed the world to be radically false and miserable; therefore escape from the world was to them the only wisdom. But this world is Brahman, the world is God, the world is Satyam [Truth], the world is Ananda [Bliss]; it is our misreading of the world through mental egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong relation with God in the world that ...
... the divine consciousness and a transformation of earth-life by the divine consciousness coming down here. All the old Yogas put the emphasis on going to Nirvana or to heaven, Vai-kuntha, Goloka, Brahmaloka etc. for good and so getting rid of rebirth. My emphasis is on life here and its transformation and I put that as the aim at once of my Yoga and of the terrestrial manifestation. I am quite unaware ...
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