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Sive, the third in the trinity is a representation of the destructive power and is represented by certain signs in Southern India. The people make signs on their foreheads representing the
the ideas of creation or generation. V There people think that by their inaterial energies they will rise.
In our temples at the time of performing cere monies, we make marks on tables of wood, marble or metal, one is of an eight-petaled lotus.
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We locate certain great principles or ideals in all these petals. I gave you the generic names of five great personages. The first (1) is put in the middle, Arhut. The second, the liberated, at the top (2), the right of the center (3) the master; the fourth, the religious student, (4) at the bottom, the fifth, the holy man (5) at the left of the center. In the corner petals we locate right knowledge(K), right beliet, (B), right conduct (C) and right energy (E).
When we have the rosary in our hand we think of the Arbuts and contemplate on their peculler
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