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Tattva 24 — Locomotion (Pāda)

The power to move: the subtle faculty of locomotion.

Pāda is the capacity for locomotion — the subtle power of moving from place to place, associated with the feet. The third of the five action-faculties, it is the embodied self's power to go and to traverse. As a tattva it is the moving-power itself, working through the organ of the foot.