Down on the level of Buddhi, the intellect and intuition, the interactions of the fine devata create relationships. These structure the subtle or sacred geometry that defines the forms of our world. These subtle structures are composed of sutras or threads of light. We can describe them as structured flows of light, feeling, and sound. Those fine threads are sustained by tubes, like insulation on a wire. Flowing attention curves back on itself in a spiral down the thread, creating a tube.

These tubes are embodied as subtle life-forms known as nagas. These are ancient and benevolent beings, quite different from how the West relates to them. Likely the most familiar reference would be kundalini depicted as a cobra. Our energy and physical bodies are structured from these tubes-forms. For example, our nervous, circulatory, digestive, energy, and lymphatic systems are all tube-based.

This means that all three aspects of self-aware consciousness are embodied in life-forms.

– Experiencers are embodied as people, animals, plants, devas, and so forth

– Experiencing is embodied by the fine devata that create experiences

– Objects of experience are embodied by ancient beings that hold the structure for more expressed forms of life to unfold on.

There are also crossover beings like nature spirits that help sustain natural life-forms, objects, and our experience of them in various combinations.

Dharma

In a recent webinar, Dorothy Rowe mentioned that space is nested, then explored how dharma is also nested. Dharma is related to these structures. We can say nested spaces each have their own structured dharma if they are sustained. The key is that dharmic structures support smooth flow.

We often translate Dharma as purpose but more deeply it is that which sustains. That which keeps the world going so we can have experiences and grow. The world is sustained through subtle structure.

One way of seeing nested dharma is that we have universal dharma as humans, collective dharma as members of a country and community, dharma with our family, and personal dharma related to stages of life.

For example, when we’re young it’s our duty to be a student and prepare for adulthood. We also discover what skills and talents we can offer the world.

As we become adults, we take on dharma related to work, then family, then community, and so forth. When we develop spiritually, we fulfill our universal dharma.

Dharma is present in the smallest details and in the universe as a whole. Whatever helps sustain and grow is dharma. Flow and natures support indicate dharma. The very structure of our universe embodies dharma.

How structure relates to the 4 legs of the bull of dharma is puzzling though. They are related to the 4 Yugas (ages) and seem to have a general relationship with the 4 types of dharma. Buckminster Fuller described the tetrahedron (3-sided pyramid) as the fundamental building block of the underlying geometry of the world. And the tetrahedron has 4 points. But this is a conceptual recognition, not experiential. We’ll see.

[Update: Perhaps I’m confusing symbolism with structure. Maybe the 4 legs: warming, purity,