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to the pure world or transmayic world. The tantric Saivite will meditate
upon these five categories, projecting them along the space between
the tongue and Brahma's foramen.
Sadasiva resides in the middle of the central
lotus. The tantric iconography imagines him as the great corpse, viz.
without his power. He is conceived nere in his hypostasis as pure light
without thinking. The trident appear s from Sadasiva's navel, piercing
with its points the top of the tantrika's head through three orifices
named the three "ethers". Sadasiva is visualized lying in the center of
mandala. According to different traditions of outlining the Saiva
mandala, one or sometimes three tridents will spring out through the
three holes of the head. The three points or, respectively, tridents,
symbolize the power of will, of knowledge and of action, Para, Parapar膩
and Apara, etc. There are three lotuses above the trident, i.e. correspond
ing to each point, which signify the abodes of the three mentioned
powers.
This mandala is conceived also as a graphical
projection of the mantra SAUH, which is, as it has been already shown,
one of the main mantras in Saiva tantra. The letter S that "pervades"
the categories beginning with the earth up to the maya, is correlated
with the axle of the trident. The letter AU whose "pervasion" reaches
the power,
is tantamount to the trident. The emission AH has to be
meditated upon in the ethereal space of the lotuses, beyond the trident.
For the Saivite tantrika, the trident is his main
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