Devīcakra
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Devīcakra (देवीचक्र):—One of the five internal mystic centres (pañcacakra), according to the kubjikāmata-tantra (or, kādiprakaraṇa). These five cakras follow the general principle of a cakra (inward representation of a maṇḍala, the representation of cosmic creation).
The Devīcakra is associated with the gross element Earth (pṛthvī).
It is named after a group of female deities who are called Devīs (‘goddesses’). It is situated in the region below the navel (corresponds to the location of the Ādhāra and the Śvādhiṣṭhāna combined).
The Devīcakra is made up of those elements which represent the more substantial or phenomenal aspects of life.
Its symbolism mainly concerns the creation of both physical life and the Sāṃkhya phenomenal world, i.e., the genesis of the human physical body, as well as the metaphysical principles which, by means of this body ,bind the ātman to its worldly existence.
From the centre outwardly evolves a structure of predominantly female deities who symbolize different aspects of the phenomenal and phonic creation.
In the case of the Devicakra, the Dūtīcakra and the Mātṛcakra, this unfolding takes place in two phases, first a number of deities come into existence who divide themselves again into further secondary manifestations.
In the Devīcakra there are four main Devīs who are fourfold each; these twenty Devīs together with six (‘male’) categories form the phenomenal principles (tattvas) which limit the individual soul. They are linked to speculations on the genesis of the human body.
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