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The Cause of All Causes
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the Atala, is situated on the waist; the second, Vitala, is situated on the thighs; the third, Sutala, on the ankles; the fourth, Talātala, on the joints; the fifth, Mahātala, on the calves; the sixth, Rasātala, on the upper portion of the feet; and the seventh, Pātāla, is situated on the soles of the feet. Thus the virāṭa form of the Lord is full of all planetary systems.
PURPORT
Modern enterprisers (the astronauts who travel in space) may take information from  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  that in space there are fourteen divisions of planetary systems. The situation is calculated from the earthly planetary system, which is called Bhūrloka. Above Bhūrloka there is Bhuvarloka, and the topmost planetary system is called Satyaloka. These are the upper seven  lokas , or planetary systems. And similarly, there are seven lower planetary systems, known as Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Mahātala, Rasātala and Pātāla  lokas . All these planetary systems are scattered over the complete universe, which occupies an area of 2,000,000,000 x 2,000,000,000 square miles. The modern astronauts can travel only a few thousand miles away from the earth, and therefore their attempt to travel in the sky is something like child's play on the shore of an expansive ocean. The moon is situated in the third status of the upper planetary system, and in the Fifth Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  we shall be able to know the distant situation of the various planets scattered over the vast material sky. There are innumerable universes beyond the one in which we are put, and all these material universes cover only an insignificant portion of the spiritual sky, which is described above as  sanātana-brahmaloka . The Supreme Lord very kindly invites the intelligent human beings to return back home, back to Godhead, in the following verse of the  Bhagavad-gītā :
ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna māṁ apetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate.
(Bg. 8.16)
Beginning from Satyaloka, the topmost planet of the universe situated just below the eternal Brahmaloka, as described above, all the planets are material. And one's situation in any of the many material planets is still subjected to the laws of material nature, namely birth, death, old age and disease. But one can get complete liberation from all the above-mentioned material pangs when one enters into the eternal Brahmaloka  sanātana  atmosphere, the kingdom of God. Therefore liberation, as contemplated