The Hindu Temple v1.c6.s2.3

v1.c6.s2.3

In the net of this plan the figure of Man is caught, not by its likeness, but by its proportion and symmetry in its parts, the "head" confronting directly the aim of his being (the East, where the sun, light of consciousness, arises), the feet at the opposite end, a schematism in which the figure of Man is seen fitted into the square plan of the extended universe. It consists of name and measure. Such a picture or image (pratimā) is a workable and not necessarily visible, analogy, not of the human being but of the order by which it is upheld. Its diagrammatic field of co-ordinates, intersections and diagonals is sensitive to any interference with its order and in this respect it functions like the subtle body of the human being.