Indian Sculpture c8.167

c8.167

Śiva, as other gods too, is frequently called a Yakṣa.217 Śiva as Mahāyogin makes use of his Yakṣa power. To set forth multiples of his own body is a manifestation of a power which draws upon the inexhaustible supply diffused throughout the world, but concentrated in the divinity or in the yogin for the purpose of being dismissed as a part form of his consciousness, while it is referred to and upheld by the central power.218