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Lord of the zenith and light phenomenalizes himself into
the other four directions that have in turn the essences of wina, fire,
water and earth when starting from the East. The middle point of this
cube has the essence of both light and dark HCC & TA, XV, 208); it is
the residence of ordinary man.
account,
when only the cardinal points are taken into
the zenith and the Nadir are excluded from reckoning and the
four directions are usually associated with Isvara, Rudra, Visnu and
Brahma. In this last case, the directions are not produced by Sadasiva's
faces, but they are identified with the four causal forces which are
immediately inferior to sadasiva. "The various regions, being changable
and relative, always provide well-determined fruits to the inhabitant.
of different continents (i.e. they combine in a particular manner for
each of us). Actualisation of fruits depends in fact (only) on (the
quality of light (which lights for each individual)" (TA,XV, 217b-218a).
NOW, there are two meanings of spatiality in
at
connection with the referential point. The macrocosmic view takes the
sun (pure light) as referential point, while in the microcosm the
individual that sacrifices is the universal centre. Both views are
based upon the identification of Siva with the sun and the sadhaka
the same time. Thus, a certain place can be hallowed by relating it
to the macrocosmic potentialities as well as to the individual who
introjects into it his own powers.
in the latter case, the practitioner
must be aware of his identity with Siva and on this account, of his
demiurgic abilities to institute external centres or to become himself
a centre.