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He who aims at freedom and when propitiation
plays no part in his initiation - must abandon the tenet of perambulation
as "the snake sloughs its skin" (TA, XV, 106). Liberation has no direct
connection with a certain place insomuch as it has no links with the
earthly world. The success of the sacrifice (yagasri) consists in choising
a particular place and in opening the subconscious power which resides
in the heart-lotus, while liberation is obtained only through opening
the consciousness as a whole and cutting the bond of ignorance. The last
target can be attained only by means of a pure mind (vimala). Although
some achievements could derive from favourable combinations of temporal
or spatial elements, the transparency of subconscious (heart) remains
for ever the most important factor. A subconscious which has acquired
perfect limpidity can easily obtain all the things reflected on it. "Con-
firmation (the embodiment) of what is contemplated in the mind of the
contemplator is nothing else than his identification with the thing
desired by him" (SpK, II, 6). Therefore, the true sacred place derives
from the "purity of the heart", or, in other words, a pitha is phenomena-
lized by a certain disposition of superconscious and not vice versa.
Saiva tantra regards the cardinal points as
different stages of phenomenalization of the supreme light; this light
engenders directions which must correspond to a standing body: E is found
in front, W- behind, S - on the right hand, N
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on the left hand, Zenith
above and Nadir - below. Esoteric meanings of directions have successive
levels of decoding and they are closely connected with the localization
of hallowed places. Their astrological significance has already been