TRIANGLES
Surrounding the Bindu are a series of overlapping triangles. Four of them called shiva triangles, having their apex upwards, and the other five are superimposed upon the former with apex dowards. They are the five or shakti-triangles. These nine constitute the nine basic categories of the universe, evolving from the Supreme Mother Tripurasundari represented by the central Bindu or small circle. Hence they are called the nine Mula-prakrtis or Root substances of the universe.The shiva-triangles and the shakti-triangles are superimposed in order to indicate that shiva is optimum only when shakthi is there with him and vice versa and they together constitute the microcosmic and cosmic aspects. In the individual they are present as the nine Dhatus or substances constituting the body of the individual. The shakthi elements are skin, Blood, flesh, Medhas fat and bone. The shiva elements are Semen, Marrow, the vital Energy and the Individual Soul. On the Cosmic side, the five evolutes of shakti are the five Elements, the five thandras, the five sense organs and Mind have their origin in shakti element, while Maya, Suddha-vidya, Mahesvara and Sadashiva form the shiva element. Thus the nine basic triangles symbolise the twenty five Tattvas that constitute the cosmos and individual bodies according to Sakta cosmology. These 9 triangles intersect to form forty two Konas or triangles, (excluding the one having bindu) middle. In all these Konas are placed the different letters of the alphabet, which stand for the Devatas, who are emanations of Tripurasundari as the conscious forces governing the various powers of Nature in the Cosmos and the individuals. The portions of the Sri-chakra lying outside the forty-four centres comprising the Bindu also are all supposed to be included in the latter-the eight petalled lotus in the central triangle , the sixteen petalled lotus in the eight angled chakra, the three circles in the two ten-angled. chakras surrounding space with the rectangular lines and four entrances in the fourteen-angled chakra.
