यथाऽऽदर्शे तथाऽऽत्मनि
यथा स्वप्नेतथा पितृलोके ।
यथाऽप्सुपरीव ददृशे
तथा गन्धर्वलोके
छायातपयोरिव ब्रह्मलोके ॥ ५॥
YATHA ADARSHE TATHA ATMANI
YATHA SWAPNE TATHA PITRULOKE |
YATHA APSU OARIV DADRUSHE
TATHA GANDHARVLOKE
CHHAYA ATAPAYO IV BRAHMALOKE ||5
AS SEEN IN MIRROR (BRAHAMAN ) SEEN IN ATMAN,AS IN DREAM SAME IN WORLD OF FOREFATHERAS IN THE WATER SO IN THE WORLD OF GANDHARV,AS IN SHADOW AND LIGHT SO IN WORD OF BRAHMA ||5
This is very interesting Shloka . In this one we are told about different LOKAS or the levels of existence. There seems to be 7 Lokas or plains of existence. We all are familied with the earth or so called JIVLOKA In Abrahamic religion there are 3 -namely earth- heaven and hell. But we have little different concept . We have different levels described based on evolution of the Souls .Many people use different names Some have 14 lokas. But BHU is the Earth ,BUBAR,SVAR(G),MAHA(r),JANA,TAPA and highest is SATYA LOKA OR BRAHMA LOKA. The one bellow Earth is PATAL loka.
As one can imagine, the ignorance is less (AVIDYA) in higher Lokas. So we have major problem or ignorance on Erth and none in BRAHMA Loka. So in this Shloka we are told that our existance and understanding on this Erth is like looking in a mirror at the image and due to ignorance thinking that the physical body is the REAL thing or Braham. We look at a mirror and we see our image and we can be mistaken for the real thing We have Brahamn in ourselves but it is covered by physical body and the refelction that we see is that of physical body and we can not se the real thing - the BRAHAMAN. When we are sleeping our physical body is not working and what we see in dream is all the play of Astral or Subtle or SUKSHMA Sharir or body . This is what happens when our physical body dies. We still have Astral and Causal body and that is the situation in PITRU LOKA - Pitru Loka is our forefather's plane which is the plane of all after we die. So the situation is like having dream - in which we have no physical body. In the Gandharv Loka which is higher than Pitru Loka, we have some differentiation between the 3 bodies and the Brahman and we are still not 100 % convinced of our REAL Nature . So this is compared to we looking at our image in water. The image is not as clear as in mirror but still it is that of our PHYSICAL body . So we have some understanding of our nature but we are still not free of our physical body. In the BRAHMA Loka, which is the highest, we have achieved the knowledge of SELF or the BRAHMAN and it is as clear as LIGHT AND A SHADOW. The shadow is not real thing but looks like real thing but we now know that they are different.
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