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ici, from Old French ci (“here”), from Vulgar Latin *ecce hīc, with /i-/ added by analogy with Old French iluec

(“there, in that place”), from Latin illoc.

The here-form — to which we identify and cling so intensely and excessively — we often imagine, picture or occasionally see inscribed into a more ethereal sheath, an astral body of sorts. We proclaim it is under influence, driven under it — a case of DUI so to speak — that impairs our driving.

Accordingly, we appear more puppets than free beings. We name stars, planets and other celestial bodies as the plotters that designed a scheme to defraud us of the imparted share of the natural life force we claim as our birthright.

But — if Gravity helps to create a stage on which we can perform — is it not specifically so that we can be I, the léger de main, smooth operator that could go through the human journey and realize The World XXI, having "mené le Petit au Bout" — calling upon Archetypes until we spin the Wheel of Fortune, Hang our illusions up, go through the Unnamed decapitating process, revisit Moon and Sun under a new light — to finally come to a full stop On Stranger Tides, At World's End, and uncling and definitely part? Are we not our very own enemies? Isn't it  — through the destruction of piled up beliefs — that we can remember Truth?

By keeping it simple, almost schematic, we can genuinely play the four colours, four forces, deftly enough not to be robbed of our own existences.

सुदर्शन चक्र

sudarśana cakra

"disc of auspicious vision"

चक्र chakra as आयुधपुरुष ayudhapurusha

A personification of चक्र the chakra (discus) of विष्णु Vishnu

circa 1825

चक्रपाणि (cakrapāṇi, “discus-handed”); ultimately from चक्र (cakra, “discus”) + पाणि (pāṇi, “hand”)

The word सुदर्शन Sudarshana is derived from two Sanskrit words – सु Su meaning "good/auspicious" – and दर्शन Darshana meaning "vision". In the Monier-Williams dictionary, the word चक्र Chakra is derived from the root क्रम् (Kram) or ऋत् (rt) or क्रि (kri) and refers among many meanings, to the wheel of a carriage, wheel of the sun's chariot or metaphorically to the wheel of time. In Tamil, the Sudarshana Chakra is also known as சக்கரத்தாழ்வார், cakkarattāḻvār (Chakrathazhwar "Ring or Circlet of God" चक्रथज़्वार).

The Sudarshana Chakra (सुदर्शन चक्र) is a spinning, disk-like weapon literally meaning “disk of auspicious vision,” having 108 serrated edges used by the Hindu god [विष्णु Viṣṇu]. सुदर्शन चक्र the Sudarshana Chakra is generally portrayed on the right rear hand of the four hands of विष्णु Viṣṇu, who also holds शंख Shankha (conch shell), गदा • gadā (mace) and पद्म Padma (lotus). While in ऋग्वेद Rigveda the Chakra was “[विष्णु Viṣṇu]’s"symbol as the wheel of time, by the late period सुदर्शन चक्र Sudarshana Chakra emerged as आयुधपुरुष an ayudhapurusha (anthropomorphic form, आयुध Āyudha refers to the “weapons” or “attributes” of ), as a fierce form of विष्णु Viṣṇu, used for the destruction of an enemy.