UMĀLOKA VARṆANAM (उमालोक वर्णन)

  💞 UMĀLOKA VARṆANAM💞

Umā Loka means the cosmic and divine abode of Goddess Ādi Parā Śakti Pārvatī or Umā. The person who reaches there, gets Mokṣa. 

The glories of Goddess Pārvatī are described in many chapters of the Varāha Mahāpurāṇa. Trikalā Māhātmya, Gaurī Prādurbhāva, slaughter of vetrāsura by Durgā, Aṣṭamātṛkā, Dhānyadhenu Dāna, śaileśvara māhātmya etc chapters are some examples of them. 

In Varāhapurāṇa, Umā is addressed as the inner energy of 3 Devas. 

It also said, 

मुहूर्त्त ध्यानमास्थाय विज्ञाता सा मया तदा । ध्रुवं शैलेन्द्रपुत्रीयमुमा विश्वेश्वरेश्वरी ॥ २२ ॥

~215th Chapter Śaileśvara māhātmya : Varāhapurāṇa 

Śailaputrī Umā is Viśveśvarī. 

In the same chapter, Umāloka is described. 

गौर्यास्तु शिखरं तत्र गच्छेत् सिद्धनिषेवितम् । यत्र सन्निहिता नित्यं पार्वती शिखरप्रिया ।॥ ९४ ॥ लोकमाता भगवती लोकरक्षार्थमुद्यता । तस्याः सालोक्यमायाति दृष्ट्वा स्पृष्ट्वाभिवाद्य च ॥९५॥ त्यजते पतितुं तस्या अधस्तात् वाग्मतीतटे । उमालोके ब्रजेदाशु विमानेन विहायसा ।। ९६ ॥

~ Śaileśvara Māhātmya : Varāha Mahāpurāṇa.

There is a peak named Gaurī Śikhara near Śaileśvara Pilgrimage. Pārvatī always resides there . By going to the peak there called Gaurīśikhara re- sorted to by Siddhas and seeing, touching or bowing to the universal mother Pārvatī who remains there for protecting the world, one attains her own world called Umāloka. He who throws himself down from there to the bank of Vāgmatī, quickly goes to her world in an aerial car. 

Gaurī Śikhara probably is situated in Nepal . Śiva Purāṇa said that Pārvatī had penanced here for getting back Śiva as her husband. Nīlamata Purāṇa also said about this peak . 

दृष्ट्वा तु गौरीशिखरं चन्द्रलोकमवाप्नुयात् १२८३ पूर्वमासीदुमा राजन् नीलोत्पलसमप्रभा सा तत्र तपसा लेभे गौरं वर्णं मनोहरम् ||१२८४

~Nīlamata Purāṇa 

Umāloka is described in Śiva Purāṇa as "MAṆIDVĪPA". 

इष्टाकानां तु विन्यासो यावद्वर्षाणि तिष्ठति। तावद्वर्षसहस्त्राणि मणिद्वीपे महीयते ।। २२॥

~ 51th Chapter: Umā Samhitā, Śiva Purāṇa 

The person who builds a temple remains in the MAṆIDVĪPA for as many thousands of years, till the brick foundation of the temple lasts.