The Hindu Temple v1.c7.s2.26

v1.c7.s2.26

Stone, brick or wood and also plaster and paint are substances of realisation. In them the image or vision takes form, settles down, imbues their grain and fibre and gives them the new life, as part of the temple, the seat of God. All the same these substances are true to this name also in another sense. In them ‘subsists’ their grain and texture, the frame-work given to them by Yama, and it carries with it the memory of their original state. This finally outlasts its own