Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
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MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM 35<br />
(dhatu) 1 are the seven islands. Sweat, tears, and the<br />
like are the oceans. Fire exists in the mūlādhāra,<br />
suṣumṇ ā, navel and elsewhere. 2 As the worlds are<br />
supported by the prāṇ a and other vāyus (“airs”), so is<br />
the body supported by the ten vāyus, prāṇ a, etc. There<br />
is the same ākāśa (ether) in both. 3 The witness within<br />
is the puruṣa without, for the personal soul of the<br />
microcosm corresponds <strong>to</strong> the cosmic soul (hiraṇ yagarbha)<br />
in the macrocosm.<br />
1 Skin, blood, muscle, tendon, bone, fat, semen.<br />
2 The kāmāgni in mūlādhāra, badala in the bones; in suṣumṇa the fire of<br />
lightning, and in the navel earthly fire.<br />
3 As <strong>to</strong> distribution of elements in the cakras, see chap. iv, Bhūtaśuddhi-<br />
<strong>Tantra</strong>.