• Inner Wheel - Twelve Monthly Cycles
  • Named after the various jewels
  • Katsupari Monastery model
• Middle Wheel - Ecueques or Triad
  • Followed the twelve-month period/cycle
  • Called the Ecueques or Triad
  • Theory that man changes somewhat in nature & bodily chemistry every 3 years
  • Making 36 periods within this cycle made of various metals & their influences on man
  • It is the 3 into 3, into 3, or better known as the Triad
    • In which the metals rule over the jewels of the thirty day periods (months)
    • These 9 metals are Aluminum, Silver, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Mercury
    • These rule over the sequence of the three in three, in three
    • Known for life giving qualities of those living in the human consciousness state within the worlds of matter
• Outer Wheel - Twelve Years or Duodenary Cycle

The Katsupari Monastery Model

• Katsupari Monastery is in northern Tibet
• There is a painting on ceiling called the Bhava Chakra
  • The cycle of transmigratory existence
  • This meant the cycles which Soul goes through while on this earth
• The outer circle of this wheel was divided into twelve parts
  • Which are the periods of the jewels
  • Called nidanas, or the causes that move each individual Soul to reincarnate
  • These Nidanas are the twelve ECK-Vidya signs
  • Each of which contains within it an impulse to action
    • Or a cause that brings Soul back again into this world

1. Nidana 1 - Astik

   • Represented by the unconscious will
   • This is called the blind man
     • Signifies Soul passing from death to rebirth
     • And on to death and rebirth again
     • The cycle of transmigratory existence

2. Nidana 2 - Utarat

   • Called conformation
   • Represented by the potter and his pots
     • Signifying Soul shaping Its materials of the mental and physical natures
     • For this world

3. Nidana 3 - Garvata

   • Called the conscious will
   • It is typified by the restlessness of the human consciousness
     • Or that of money
     • Signifies the rise of conscious experience in the individual Soul of man

4. Nidana 4 - Ebkia

   • The self-consciousness
   • Represented by a ship containing all that Noah's Ark had
     • Man, woman, and animals
     • Signifies the rise of the quality of individuality

5. Nidana 5 - Ralot

   • Is given in the symbol of an empty house
   • Represents the development of the sensory perceptions

6. Nidana 6 - Sahak

   • A figure representing marriage
     • Signifies the focusing of the sense of perceptions upon the exterior objects

7. Nidana 7 - Kamitoc

   • Rpresented by a figure with an arrow through its heart
     • Signifes the illusion of pain and pleasure and their reactions upon Soul
     • To see through this illusion is to have freedom

8. Nidana 8 - Mokshove

   • Called desire
   • Represented by a figure crawling in the dust
     • With its hands up pleading to the heavens for its desires to be fulfilled
     • Signifies the experiences of gratification

9. Nidana 9 - Dzyani

   • Indulgence
   • Represented by a man with food all around him
     • Stuffing himself with it
     • Signifies attachment to worldly possessions
       • And those who cannot give up such possessions

10. Nidana 10 - Parinama

    • Represented by maturity
      • Signifies the fullness of material existence
      • Brought to the highest philosophical level

11. Nidana 11 - Hortar

    • Compensation
    • Represented by the birth of a son
      • Signifies the paying of all debts to nature
      • And final detachment from this physical world and its attachments

12. Nidana 12 - Niyamg

    • Shows the dead body being carried to the grave by twelve pall bearers
      • Signifes decay of all points of contact by which life is held to the material state
      • And spiritual unfoldment into the next world

Recycling the Nidanas

• After the twelfth nidana, the first cycle for some begins again
  • It goes through all the cycles of existence
• The nidana represents the dominating consciousness
  • Or the place of Soul in the great cycle of progress
• The ego has its birth, growth, maturity and decay
  • So many hundreds of these lives form together a greater cycle
  • Involing a vast progress of life moving through its many stages
• The nidana is determined by the ascendancy of Soul on the spiritual ladder to God
  • Thus a person in Niyamg is born to the experience of detachment
    • For he is bringing a cycle of experience to an end
  • A person who is born in the period of Mokshove
    • Has the sole purpose of his existence to experience the consequences
    • Of greed, personality, and possession
• The ascendancy of Soul in this circle of life represents a minor cycle
  • Of experience within a greater one
  • This greater circle is the twelve year or duodenary cycle
  • It qualifies and specializes the general significanse of Soul's purpose in this world
  • For example, the fifth nidana, or Ralot
    • Is the outer manifestation of the sensory powers
    • This is usually manifested as ambition
  • As Soul progresses through the third nidana or Garvata
    • It represents the effort to establish individual sufficiency
    • And denotes that the ambitions will be of an intellectual or mental nature