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Re: Chandraloka
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To: srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
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Subject: Re: Chandraloka
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From: M Suresh <msuresh@india.ti.com>
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:13:48 +0500
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Resent-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 03:56:04 -0500 (EST)
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Resent-From: SRH Editor <srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
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Resent-Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960402035604.12497N@rbhatnagar>
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Resent-To: Ajay Shah <ajay>
In article <4j2qks$r1u@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
psista@gilbreth.purdue.edu (Prasad S. Sista) wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. I have a question here.
> so what does the statement `Man cannot go to the moon' mean? Isnt it
> obvious that if Chandraloka is a world in which only disembodied
> souls can exist, men(since only the body has characteristics) cannot
> go to chandraloka anyway when their soul is attached to the body.
> So when people said `Man landed on the moon'they meant obviously
> the man with his soul and body. Does it mean that he was just
> Stating the obvious when he(whoever said this) was making this
> statement?
> Thanks once again for the clarification made
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> Regards
> Prasad S Sista
I am assuming this post is in response to a post I had made on
Chandraloka being a plane of existence. I am not quite sure as there is
no specific reference made. Anyway I have a few thoughts to share and
here goes.
I did not mean that the astral plane and chandraloka are the same, but
are planes of existence just like this world. I believe Heaven, Hell ,
Pataala, Vaikuntha, Kailaasa etc. would be other such worlds.
I think it would not be necessary to die to know of such worlds and would
also be possible to experience such worlds through visions for those
people who have inner experience. However I suppose the description of
such visions would be only approximate as they would have to be in terms
of what can be comprehended by the brain.
Also I think that these different worlds may not be isolated from each
other entirely. Thus the moon we see could represent Chandraloka. For
example Sri Ramana Maharishi has said that he had visions showing the
hill of Arunachala to be hollow and inhabited by Siddha's. However I
doubt if someone were to bore through the hill he would find such a
world. I also would not like to think that Ramana Maharishi was telling
a lie or was having hallucinations or was being symbolic like a poet. He
was referring to another plane which was in some way connected to the
holy hill of Arunachala.
It seems we ourselves do not exist entirely in this world and during deep
sleep visit other worlds and interact with other beings. This is
supposed to be verifiable by maintaining an awareness throughout the
sleep.
The above are mostly from recollection of the titbits I had read from the
writings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and also Sri Ramana Maharishi.
If you want to know more about such possibilities read "Life Divine" by
Sri Aurobindo. Of course it contains in-depth detailed logical analysis
of more serious topics like ethics, problem of evil, concept of Maya etc.
regards,
Suresh.
