When Hiranyaksha caused the earth to sink where did people live at that time?

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me from Ravana.
Thank you. and the whole process is not so simplistic for example when we say that heaven is above and hell is below now we know that earth is round so if I am in India and I point above and you are in America and you point above, you are pointing in different direction in fact antipodal direction so where exactly is above? so is it above from America or is it above from India? so actually we are moving from the universe in many simplistic geographical terms so however the reality is much more subtle and complex the heavenly abode is made of subtler elements and because it is made of subtler elements the conception itself is different we might think that the spiritual world as okay there is a floating planet system and then there is a river and then beyond that there is a spiritual world, so it is almost like the spiritual world is a geographical neighborhood to the material world just like say China is in the neighborhood of India or Canada is in the neighborhood of America, so like that we make a particular distinction about the spiritual world is in the neighborhood of the material world but they have their different natures the material world is made up of fire and the spiritual world is made up of satchitanand, so that is an even greater difference between the heavenly planets and the earthly planets and this is proper so the point is that these are most simplistic when we come to the Vedic process in the science recital of Sh. Pramukhar, Sadatipuram, Dr. Shera Thomson, he has written several books, explain the Vedic cosmos in ways that are intelligible from even the modern scientific perspective he explains the fundamental point is that it is much more complex than what is normally thought of, so he refers to Vedic cosmography which is there in the Vedas and then another book called Mysteries of the Supreme Universe, so we shouldn’t have this really simplistic idea of the cosmos when we understand what is happening within, as he described in the Bhagavad Gita, because he is talking about different Lokas and the Lokas are not just linear geographical neighbours of what is there on earth so now if you look at this whole description of Ranyaksha say disrupting the earth, so it doesn’t, it may not make sense from our geographical point of view it is said that he he carved the extracted gold, he was so great that he extracted gold and because of the extraction of the gold the earth lost its balance and because of that the earth sank so what is being referred to over here is a whole different set of operational principles for the universe and Ranyaksha, when he said that he extracted the gold, yes he did extract the gold but it also represents that he disrupted the order of the universe through the extraction of the gold and with the extraction of the order of the universe as expressed in the extraction of the gold, that caused the earth to sink and when the lord came back the lord not only destroyed Ranyaksha and picked up the earth and placed it back but also the stones in the universe fell so at that particular time when the earth sank when Ranyaksha and the lord Barahati they were fighting, it is described they were fighting on the northern ocean itself so the earth had sunk and they were fighting in the ocean so what happened at that time to other people they were not on the earth at that time the earth had sunk and they were at other places so at that time interplanetary travel was not uncommon and those who had those powers they would go to other earths so he basically through the mentality that is demonstrated through Ranyaksha’s exploitation of the earth he really did not came from the earth he exploited the earth for whatever it was and when it sank he just neglected it he just substituted using the earth for more nefarious purposes without caring for the earth at all that’s what I said, that mentality is what is to be highlighted so the scriptures do describe everything that happened but because those events have happened in areas of the universe or in space type inception that are so different from ours that taking those events and trying to understand those events at a literal level is not always possible with our limited mind and senses you know in the Jyotishastra in the strike that we humans depending on our union are given access to the universe as much as is needed for our role in the universe you can think of the universe as a massive mainframe computer or there are hundreds of people working on that computer and there is the whole data say of a big multinational company in that computer but different people depending on the kind of work that they are doing they are given access to different levels of data in the computer some people who just have to feed in data they are given access to only a small part of the computer as of data type they can enter and there are others who are higher up executives so they can see not just that particular file or folder, they can see further mechanisms and then the CEO of the company you can see the whole computer is all his data so if you compare the universe to that kind of multi-level mainframe computer then we human beings have been given access to a certain level of the universe and beyond that there is much that exists but we can’t access it it is said that even when the devatas come to the earth we can’t see the devatas unless they give us the vision to see it so we don’t have access to that because they are having the responsibility for the universe so they can see much more than what we can so they can see us and they can see many things which we can’t see also so like that the full understanding of what exactly happened how the earth got stabilized because of the extraction of the gold and how it sank and where everyone else went the details we may not be able to understand but the principle is that because life doesn’t exist only on the earth it exists elsewhere also so when the earth got disrupted and sank when the people who had the capacity for interplanetary travel they went to countries living in other parts of the world the lord was concerned about the destabilization of the universal order that’s why the lord came and he restored the earth back to its balance so the specifics it is not always easy for us to understand because our frame of reference is so different and so rigid but the broad principle is that there is disruption of the order of the universe caused by self-serving elements and there is a restoration of the order of the universe done by the benevolent lord