Thank you Lal.
Taking all that in as well, now it makes perfect sense.
Incidentally, the very last sentence in your reply brought to mind what I read in some commentary, namely:
that the deva realms, the higher ones in particular (to say nothing of the brahma realms!) lie at distances which, I made out, would place them somewhere beyond the orbits of Mars and the gas giants.
Are these estimates trustworthy at all? For then those deva realms would come within the gravitational pull of those nearer(to them) planets during the course of their orbits around the Sun rather than that of the Earth.
with deep Gratitude