Category:Yamaloka
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda provides a detailed description of Yamaloka, the planetary abode of Yamarāja, which is specifically designated for the judgment and punishment of sinful living entities. Situated on the southern side of the universe, this planet—also known as Saṁyamanī—is where the fierce Yamadūtas drag corrupt souls after death. The journey to Yamaloka is terrifying, involving fierce dogs and the dreaded River Vaitaraṇī. Once there, Yamarāja judges the conditioned souls based on their karma. Before they are forced into lower species, such as hogs or dogs, they are made to practice their degraded habits in hellish conditions. While Yamaloka is generally a place of terror and punishment for the materialistic, Śrīla Prabhupāda also recounts extraordinary histories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, and His pure devotee, Arjuna, venturing into this region to retrieve the dead and display their supreme transcendental power.
- The Universal Location: Yamaloka, also known as Saṁyamanī, is an actual planet located in the southern direction of the universe, operating under the jurisdiction of Yamarāja to process the sinful souls of the earthly planetary systems.
- The Frightening Journey: Escorted by the terrifying Yamadūtas, the sinful soul must endure a perilous journey after death, facing biting dogs and crossing the dreadful River Vaitaraṇī before entering Yamarāja's plutonic kingdom.
- The Court of Judgment: Dispelling the myth of permanent human life, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that Yamarāja dictates a soul's next body; sinners are forced to practice hellish habits on Yamaloka before taking birth in degraded animal forms.
- Divine Interventions: Because the Supreme Lord and His pure devotees transcend all material laws, personalities like Lord Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are able to travel to Yamaloka at will, effortlessly retrieving lost souls from the jurisdiction of death.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Yamaloka - The Destination of the Sinful.
Pages in category "Yamaloka"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- If a man is to be punished to remain in hell and eat stool and urine, then first of all he practices habits on the planet of Yamaraja, and then he is given a particular type of body, that of a hog, so that he can eat stool & think that he enjoys life
- It is not that they are only on the planet where Yamaraja lives
- It is said that there is an everlasting belt of water called the River Vaitarani at the entrance of the plutonic planet of Yamaraja, who punishes sinners in different manners
- It seems that Arjuna had mastered the mystic yoga power by which yogis can travel to any planet they desire. He first of all went to the planet known as Yamaloka, where the superintendent of death, Yamaraja, lives
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- On the planet of Yamaraja, the sinful man is given the chance to practice living in the hellish conditions which he will have to endure in the next life, and then he is given a chance to take birth on another planet to continue his hellish life
- On the southern side (Sumeru Mountain) is the planet known as Samyamani, where Yamaraja resides
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- Similarly, in the south is a place known as Samyamani, possessed by Yamaraja, in the west is a place known as Nimlocani, possessed by Varuna, and in the north is a place named Vibhavari, possessed by the moon-god
- Sukadeva Gosvami replied: My dear King, when the order carriers of Yamaraja were baffled & defeated by the order carriers of Visnu, they approached their master, the controller of Samyamani-puri and master of sinful persons, to tell him of this incident
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- The distance indicated by the word sadhikani is panca-vimsati-sahasradhikani, or 25,000 yojanas. That plus two and a half crores and twelve and a half laksa of yojanas is the distance the sun travels between each two cities - from Devadhani to Samyamani
- There (on Yamaloka) he searched for the brahmana's baby, but was unable to find him. He then immediately went to the planet where the King of heaven, Indra, lives
- There are different planets where Yamaraja is there, how a dead man or the soul is taken there, the path - everything is in detail there. If you say it is mythology... Why you should say mythology? You have not seen the whole universe
- This comes (the distance the sun travels between each two cities of Devadhani to Samyamani) to 23,775,000 yojanas, or 190,200,000 miles. The total orbit of the sun is four times that distance, or 95,100,000 yojanas - 760,800,000 miles
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- When the sun travels from Devadhani, the residence of Indra, to Samyamani, the residence of Yamaraja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas (190,200,000 miles) in fifteen ghatikas (six hours)
- While passing from this planet to the planet of Yamaraja, the culprit arrested by Yamaraja's constables meets many dogs, which bark and bite just to remind him of his criminal activities of sense gratification
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- Yama is situated in a planet near this earthly planet, and after death those who are very sinful are taken there, and Yama arranges different kinds of punishments for them. BG 1972 purports
- Yamaraja is deputed by the Lord to a particular planet, some hundreds of thousands of miles away from the planet of earth, to take away the corrupt souls after death and convict them in accordance with their respective sinful activities