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The Wheel of Life shows the six spheres of existance within which sorrowful lives take place and to which a man is chained by desire, ignorance and hatred. The circle is held by the demon "MARA", which indicates that lives must die and live again.
The outer circle of the wheel shows twelve links in the chain of causation which binds living beings to the misery of the inner circle with six worlds consisting of: (1) Gods symbolige the life of comfort, pleasure & apparent immorality which leads to pride & self-assurance (2) Titans or semi-Gods is that of suffering caused by perpetual strife due to envy (3) Human realm is marked by the suffering of sickness, old age & death caused by desire & passion (4) Animal world symbolizes lethargy & spiritual incapacity of a life governed by instincts (5) Spirits symbolizes the suffering through permanent hunger caused by greed & avarice (6) Hell is that of suffering of fiery heat & icy cold caused by hatred & anger
Twelve sections of outerring are:
(1) Death is shown by a man carrying a corpse on his back to the funeral prye
(2) Birth is shown by the birth scene
(3) Becoming is shown by the union of husband & wife
(4) Appropriation is shown by a man picking fruit from a tree & storing it
(5) Desire is shown the form of a man drinking wine
(6) Feeling is shown by an arrow entering a man's eye
(7) Contact is shown as an embrace between lovers
(8) Senses are represented by a house with six windows
(9) Personality is shown by a boat with two people
(10) Consciousness is shown by a monkey climbing a tree
(11) Elemental impulses are shown by the pots which a potter shapes from clay
(12) Ignorance is represented by a blind woman led by a stick. As a spontaneous search back into the origin of death and rebirth, the ultimate cause of ignorance stimulates desires & maintains self-propelling existance
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