loka
लोक lokaA world, plane, or realm of existence; in Hindu cosmology as much a state reached by karma as a physical place. The fourteen lokas run seven above the earth and seven below.
Where this term appears
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The scholar Deborah Soifer, tracing the history of the word, showed that loka slid over the centuries from "world" in the plain sense toward "a station a soul reaches", a position won by karma.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
…which the great gods see; the very hymn Rama was taught names the sun loka-sakshin , the witness of all the worlds; and the tradition made the sun the witness of every deed done beneath it, the sakshi from whom…
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
This is the region of the first cause (Brahma-loka) … in whose effulgence Parama-Shiva and Adya-Shakti reside." The sahasrara is the goal.
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
jaya hanumana gyana guna sagara, jaya kapisa tihu loka ujagara — Victory to you, Hanuman, ocean of wisdom and virtue; victory to the lord of monkeys who lights up the three worlds.
- What Oppenheimer's Gita line really means Journal
In Sanskrit, Bhagavad Gita 11.32 opens: kalo 'smi loka-kshaya-krit pravriddho.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
Rites for the dead performed at ordinary tirthas settle the ancestor safely in the world of the fathers, the pitr-loka , a good and stable place.