The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s5.8

v1.c5.s5.8

Ayodhyā, the impregnable city of the gods, has eight Cakras (cycles; AV. X. 2. 31. ‘Taittirīya Āraṇyaka’, I. 27. 2-3). “The city of Ayodhyā” is of two kinds; with reference to man, the microcosm, and with reference to the universe, the macrocosm. In man, the Cakras lead from the Mūlādhāra, the seat of consciousness (cit), to the Bindu-Trikoṇa or Śiva-Śakti, the Supreme Principle in the Sahasrāra.⁷³ In the universe the eight cycles are those of the eight suns, presided over by the eight Ādityas.⁷⁴ Within Ayodhyā, is the golden compartment, ever illuminated by light. The centre is Brahmapura, the stronghold (pur) of Brahman (AV. X. 2. 32). It corresponds to the Brahmasthāna, in the centre of the Vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala (p. 32). In the ‘Rāmāyaṇa’, the city of Ayodhyā is beheld as a square of 8 compartments on each side (aṣṭapada).⁷⁵