Physical plane (Lila)

The player is trapped by the lower self and is mainly concerned with physical survival and material achievement. Recreation is physical (competitive sport) and may include violence. This plane is related to earth, to the mother, and represents the necessary ground from which to realize other planes.

The fifth state or square on the board of Lila, the game of knowledge, appearing in the first row. Five is the number of subtle elements, of sense organs, of organs of work. This is the first of eight lokas represented on the spine of the board and marking a stage in the development of the individual's consciousness. The first seven represent a psychic centre or chakra on the spine of the human body, a level of psychic evolution. An eighth loka lies beyond the chakras. Each loka is defined by the nature of the matter of which it is composed. The eight other states in the same row may be considered as special regions within the loka.