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the South-west and diminishes bad influences; varuna governs the west
and means passivity or the cease of any tantric action; Vayu governs
the North-West and eases the mobility of a purposeful action; Kubera
rules the North and grants any material achievement; 墨s膩na governs the
North-East and exhausts any previous achievement; Brahma rule
rules the Zenith
and improves the action, while Ananta resides in the Nadir and has
malefic and unexpected influence. All of them are partial manifestations
of the light-power and are called the "world-protectors" (lokapala -
TA, XV, 222b-225a).
It can never be repeated too often, as in all
the great tantric texts, that the real peregrination is based upon the
understanding of fundamental isomorphism with the performer's own body.
"The body is made up of all the divinities, in all the beings. All these
are well explained even by Nakulesa, etc., where it is said that the
only sacred place is the body and it is useless to go to other holy
places; the only place of pilgrimage is the mantra and all the other
places of pilgrimage may be avoided" (TA, XV, 604). In this way, the
complex procedure of projection on the Saivite's body of a hundred and
eighteen worlds that constitutes the so-called "path of space", represents
the thorough achievement of circumambulation, in so far as any designated
place is a center of forces or a bridge between difierent worlds.
The quality of the place is reflected on the
Saivite especially at the point of mis death. Those who die in places
of self-born (svayambhu) lingas, or of lingas which are made up by munis,
or knowers, reach the corresponding world. They can further receive
seers