The petals of the lotus indicate not only the plethora of deities that may be guides to the immortal soul but distractions from the core notion.

Centripetal attraction, the motion of spheres is a result of multiple attractions as described by gravity, mass or importance. If there were only two forms then each would attract the other and be one.

But in space three cannot be equally separated and so there is a major and minor attraction, the minor always distracting that inclined to the major, hence the spiral. The centripetal motion appearing to counter gravity is anything but, it is just the play between the major and minor chords of attraction.