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    The document discusses how the 14 lokas or regions described in Hindu scriptures exist within the human body. It explains that the 7 upper lokas are located in the head and consist of the nose, eyes, tongue, ears and skin. These represent the senses and should be used to experience spiritual sights, sounds and more. The 7 lower lokas in the lower body consist of organs like the stomach, hands, legs, anus and urinary parts which maintain the physical body. Both the upper and lower lokas are necessary and complement each other.

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    The document discusses how the 14 lokas or regions described in Hindu scriptures exist within the human body. It explains that the 7 upper lokas are located in the head and consist of the nose, eyes, tongue, ears and skin. These represent the senses and should be used to experience spiritual sights, sounds and more. The 7 lower lokas in the lower body consist of organs like the stomach, hands, legs, anus and urinary parts which maintain the physical body. Both the upper and lower lokas are necessary and complement each other.

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    The document discusses how the 14 lokas or regions described in Hindu scriptures exist within the human body. It explains that the 7 upper lokas are located in the head and consist of the nose, eyes, tongue, ears and skin. These represent the senses and should be used to experience spiritual sights, sounds and more. The 7 lower lokas in the lower body consist of organs like the stomach, hands, legs, anus and urinary parts which maintain the physical body. Both the upper and lower lokas are necessary and complement each other.

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    45.

    Fourteen in one
    The Puraanas speak of fourteen Lokas (seven higher and seven lower regions). People have
    adopted the superficial meaning of the names given to these and they classify them as 'sacred'
    lokas and 'condemned' lokas---Deva Lokas and Paathaala Lokas. But, all these lokas do exist, in
    our own bodies, (the bodies which we carry about and care for), seven in the upper part and
    seven in the lower part.
    Which is the upper part of the human body? It is the head, the Thrikuuta Peak, the crown, the
    higher region. Seven lokas are situated therein. They are the Garuda Loka, the Gandharva Loka,
    the Yaksha Loka, the Kinnara Loka and the Kimpurusha Loka. They are all situated in the head.
    The Garuda Loka is the nose, the seat of inhalation and exhalation. The Gandharva Loka is in
    the eye. The Yaksha Loka is in the tongue. Kinnara Loka is the ear and the Kimpurusha, on the
    skin, seat of the sense of touch. Though the names of the lokas are five, there are seven regions
    to which the name applies. The nose is the first, the eyes are the second and the third, the tongue
    is the fourth, the ears are the fifth and the sixth and the skin is the seventh. These are the Upper
    Lokas.
    Those who sanctify these lokas by recognising the respective organs as instruments for higher
    ideals can be deemed worthy of human existence. That is to say, inhaling unpolluted air, seeing
    auspicious sights, hearing heartening sounds, etc. These lokas when properly cultivated, can
    make man divine.
    Does thou know why you are given eyes?
    To see whatever can be seen ?
    No! No!
    To fill the eyes with the Vision of God
    Who resides on Mount Kailaash.

    Both the higher and lower lokas are necessary


    We have to cast our looks at sacred sights. We must visualise in every one only the good and the
    godly. That is the purpose for which God has equipped us with eyes. He has not gifted them to us
    to observe and judge others, to follow people into the bazaar or to see unsightly films.
    Dost thou know why you have a tongue?
    To despatch tasty foods in ?
    No! No!
    The prime purpose is not to enable us to swallow our meals. The object is to utter holy words
    Now, when some one is narrating some good incidents, the ears show no inclination to listen.
    But when one whispers something confidential to another, the ears jointly seek to overhear. Is it
    for this that God has blessed us with ears?
    Therefore, the seven higher lokas have to be utilised for Divine ends. When that is done, one
    becomes divinised, one is liberated. The rest of the lokas are intended for the maintenance of the
    physical frame in which we are enclosed. The stomach, so to say, is the petrol tank. When that is
    filled,
    every limb and cell of the body is supplied with energy and activated, to execute the beneficial
    duties assigned to each. With the two hands and the two legs, these make five lokas. The two
    others are the anal and the urinal parts. These seven lower lokas maintain the physical body.
    Both the higher seven and the lower seven are necessary; they complement each other. The lower
    lokas are the Paathaala lokas according to the Puraanas. They form the foundation, the base.
    Those who long for flowers and fruits have to feed the unseen roots. Paathaala too should not be
    neglected merely because they are described as "low." Joy has to be churned from grief. Pleasure
    is a product of pain.
    Shri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, 28-5-1982.

    The tongue should be used for spelling the name of the Lord, not
    for hissing like a serpent, or growling or roaring with intention to
    strike terror. That is not the purpose for which the tongue is
    granted to man.
    Speech indicates one's character, reveals one's personality,
    educates others, and communicates experience and information.
    So, be vigilant about words.
    Slip while talking the injury is irreparable!

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