The geometry starts before you enter
The moment you step into the pradakshina path that rings a garbhagriha, you have already accepted a proposition: that the sacred thing is at the center, and you are not. This is not humility as performance. It is geometry as theology. The Manasara, the ancient Sanskrit treatise on architecture and spatial planning, specifies the garbhagriha, the womb-chamber, as the axis around which the entire temple body is organized. Every corridor, every mandapa, every outer wall is a concentric ring radiating outward from that single still point. You don't walk into this structure. You enter its logic.
