Place

Western Śvetadvīpa Division

Part of Goloka

The western gate motif of Śvetadvīpa.

The western division is associated in the chart with the Sāma Veda and , desire. This is a symbolic correspondence with the system, not an assertion that material desire governs Goloka — kāma here names one of the four traditional human aims, not ordinary material craving.

West side of the quadrangular

Part of 's fourfold symbolic structure — Sāma Veda, Kāma — showing the chart layers several systems of meaning (direction, Veda, life-goal) onto the same quadrant.

This is one place where the chart layers several systems of meaning on top of one another: divine forms, Vedas, directions, and human goals.

Source: Brahma-saṁhitā 5.5; chart explanatory tradition · Chart / explanatory tradition

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