Nor is he to sleep with damp clothes, wet
feet, or in a naked state; and, unless an initiate, should not sleep on
Kusha grass or its varieties. There are many more such rules. I may
here notice that in Sanskrit the right hand or side and south are
signified by the same term. So also the front and north have one and
the same name. The sun is the great and chief source of life and
magnetism in the solar system.
Hence to the world the east is positive as the source of light and
magnetism. For the same reason, to the northern hemisphere the south
(the equator and not the north) is positive. Under the laws of dynamics
the resultant of these two forces will be a current in the directed from
S.E. to N.W. This, I think, is one of the real causes of the prevailing
south-east wind. At any rate, I do not think the north pole to be
positive, as there would be no snow there in such a case. The aurora
cannot take place at the source of the currents, but at their close.
Hence the source must be towards the equator or south. The course of
life, civilization, light, and almost everything seems to be from E.
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