On May 28, 2009, at 12:56 AM, billy jim wrote:
To face East is to face the solar dawn and hence the source of light. The same for sleeping with the head pointing East. The South is the direction of Yama, the deva of death. This is why in India the corpse is turned with the head pointing toward the South - it is a signal for the Yamadutas, the servants of Yama, to come take the jiva-soul to Yama and not allow it to wander lost and alone in the antarbhava, the interspace between the worlds.
Interesting in that Mahesh's obsession with the south may have had to do with him acting out his own unresolved fear of death.
For the yogin it is the south of the body--the anus and the legs-- that one wants to remain closed, and the aperture of brahman, the north, open. Externals matter little unless you're selling real estate like the Marshy.
