Square 65: Plane of inner space (uranta-loka)
Leela Atlas team · Updated
Square 65 in Leela is the Plane of inner space, uranta-loka in Sanskrit, in the eighth row beyond the chakras. Johari describes it as the place where the feeling self ends. Duality falls away, and the player experiences an inner space without limits, three squares from Cosmic Consciousness at 68.
What square 65 means
Johari's key phrase for this square is the point where the feeling self ends. Up to here the player has known the world through sensation and emotion, always as someone who feels something. On square 65 that subject quietens. With no one standing apart to feel, the division between inside and outside stops operating, and duality dissolves. What remains is presence, quiet and wide.
The name uranta-loka belongs with Johari's image of an ending: a boundary where one way of being stops and a wider one begins. What opens beyond that boundary is space: not emptiness in the sense of loss, as at square 13, Nullity, but spaciousness, a room inside large enough to hold every thought without being shaped by any of them.
In the top row, The Gods Themselves, square 65 follows the Phenomenal plane at 64. First nature is seen clearly; then the seer finds the space in which seeing happens. It prepares the player for bliss at 66 and for the goal at 68. The square teaches that the self is more than its content: thoughts, moods and roles move through a space they never fill. Nothing has to be pushed away for this space to appear; it is noticed in the gap between two thoughts.
On the board
No arrow or snake leads to square 65, so a player arrives only by count, from row 7 or from square 64. It is a plain square with no arrow and no snake. From here a throw of exactly three reaches 68, Cosmic Consciousness, and ends the game. A four, five or six carries the symbol past the goal into 69, 70 or 71, where the top row's long detour begins.
The Bhagavad Gita and this square
Gita 13.32 is the verse for square 65: as all-pervading space is never stained, being so subtle, the Self in the body stays pure. Markandeya inside the divine child, discovering whole worlds within, gives the image of an inner space larger than the one who holds it.
As all-pervading space is never stained, being so subtle, the Self in the body stays pure. Find that spaciousness within.
Gita 13.32 · Markandeya inside the divine child
Questions to reflect on
- What is in me besides my thoughts?
- When I stop feeling for a moment, what is left?
- Which inner space could hold this problem without being shaped by it?
Questions
What happens when you land on square 65 in Leela?
Square 65, Plane of inner space, is a plain square in the top row, so nothing lifts or drops you. You wait for your next throw. Exactly three takes you to Cosmic Consciousness at 68 and ends the game. Higher numbers carry you past the goal into 69, 70 or 71.
What does uranta-loka mean in Leela?
Johari calls uranta-loka the plane of inner space, the place where the feeling self ends. The square marks a boundary: one way of experiencing stops and a wider one begins. Here duality ceases, and the player experiences infinite inner space, not as loss but as a spaciousness that can contain everything.
How is inner space at 65 different from Nullity at 13?
Both involve a kind of emptiness, but in opposite directions. Nullity at 13 is reached by the snake of negative intellect and feels like loss of meaning. Inner space at 65 is reached by climbing through the whole board and is experienced as freedom: the self discovers it is wider than its thoughts.
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