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The covering of the universe is 260,000,000 yojanas (2,080,000,000 miles) away from the sun.

""The virat form of the Lord is full of all planetary systems""

"There are fourteen spheres of planetary systems within this universe"

• Vaikuṇṭha planets;

26,200,000 yojanas (209,600,000 miles);

• Satyaloka - Brahmaloka - where Lord Brahma resides, 233,800,000 yojanas (1,870,400,000 miles) above the Sun - "the Satyaloka planetary system is not eternal";

120,000,000 yojanas (960,000,000 miles);

• Tapoloka - region of the Vairāja sages;

80,000,000 yojanas (640,000,000 miles);

• Janaloka - region of the manasā-munis, the mental sons of Brahmā;

20,000,000 yojanas (160,000,000 miles);

• Maharloka - Bhṛgu Muni;

10,000,000 yojanas (80,000,000 miles);

• Dhruvaloka, The Polestar - 3,800,000 yojanas (30,400,000 miles) above the sun;

1,300,000 yojanas (10,400,000 miles);

• Group of seven stars - "occupied by great saintly persons", circumambulate Dhruvaloka, (20,800,000 miles) above earth;

1,100,000 yojanas (8,800,000 miles);

• Saturn, Śanaiścara - Śani, very inauspicious - (12,000,000 miles) above Earth;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles)

• Jupiter, Bṛhaspati-graha - always very favorable for qualified brāhmaṇas, (10,400,000 miles) above earth;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles);

• Mars, Aṅgāraka - Maṅgala, almost always has an unfavorable influence, (8,800,000 miles) above earth;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles);

• Mercury, Budha-graha - sometimes auspicious and sometimes inauspicious, (7,200,000 miles) above earth;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles);

• Venus, Śukra-graha - influence is always auspicious, "its presence causes rainfall";

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles)

• Stars - "fixed to the wheel of time", "twenty-eight important stars, headed by Abhijit" - 500,000 yojanas (4,000,000 miles) above the earth;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles);

• Moon, Candraloka, (100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles] above the rays of the sunshine;

200,000 yojanas (1,600,000 miles);

• Sun, Sūryaloka - Ravi, Abode of Vivasvan, Sūrya;, 100,000 yojanas _800,000 miles) above Earth;

10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles)

• Rāhu

"the higher planetary systems, up to Brahmaloka, the highest planetary system of the universe, are called Svarloka."

Svargaloka - Higher Planets also includes the Heavenly Planets

1,000,000 yojanas (8,000,000 miles)

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• Siddhaloka - Siddhas, who are naturally endowed with all mystic powers;
• Cāraṇaloka - Cāraṇas, who are naturally endowed with all mystic powers;
• Sädhyaloka - great saints
• Vidyādharas, angelic beings who fly in the sky without vehicles;
• Gandharvaloka - Gandharvas, celestial musicians who subtly inspire earthly musicians;
• Yakṣaloka - Yakṣas, chief of whom is Kuvera, the treasurer of the demigods;
• Rakṣaloka - Rakṣasas, fearsome man-eaters with black magical powers;

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• Earth;

Middle Planets - earthly planetary system - "the middle systems are called Bhuvarloka";

70,000 yojanas (560,000 miles);

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"The lower systems are called Bhūrloka", "there are seven lower planetary systems out of the total fourteen"

Lower planetary systems - bila-svarga (subterranean heavens) home of Demons and Rakṣasas Daityas, Dānavas and Nāgas:

• Atala, "is situated on the waist";
• Vitala, "is situated on the thighs", Lord Śiva and his wife Gaurī;
• Sutala, "on the knees", Bali Mahārāja;
• Talātala, "on the shanks", the abode of the demon Maya;
• Mahātala, "on the ankles", many snakes with hundreds and thousands of hoods;
• Rasātala, "on the upper portion of the feet";
• Pātāla, "on the soles of the feet", where the serpent Vasukī lives with his associates;

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• Pitṛloka - the personal abode of Yama. This is a heavenly place;
• Narakaloka - where sinners suffer hellish torments;

30,000 yojanas (240,000 miles);

• Śeṣa Nāga is lying on the Garbhodaka Ocean. That ocean is;

249,800,000 yojanas (1,998,400,000 miles) deep.

Thus the total diameter of the universe is approximately 500,000,000 yojanas (4,000,000,000 miles).

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