The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.28
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.28
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c9.s3.28
From the foregoing even a casual observer can find that the Vajrayānists formulated the principle that behind the creation there is an indomitable will which multiplies in the form of words and gradually condense themselves in the form of the deity. The female counterpart is a further grossening process. This is the creative process, grossening process and the process of evolution. This process can only be stopped by the principle of Karuṇā (compassion) which gradually leads the Bodhi mind to soar higher and higher, and to become finer and thinner before it merges in Śūnya. According to Vajrayāna, therefore, the reverse process of involution starts only when the Bodhi mind is surcharged with Karuṇā or compassion.