Elements of Buddhist Iconography c6.12

c6.12

10 (page 8). *Śaṅkarācārya* interprets *rerivā* (*Taittirīya Up.*, I, 10) as either “mover” or “remover” (for the latter implication cf. *Bhagavad Gītā*, XV, 3, *aśvatthaṃ . . . chittvā*): “mover” is most appropriate in our text, but either sense would be intelligible, inasmuch as *pravṛtti* and *nivṛtti*, outflow and inflow, spiration and despiration, are simultaneous movements of the cosmic “pulse” of the Self.