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Yantra is a Sanskrit word, which literally means loom, instrument or machine. In other words, a Yantra is a geometrical representation of corresponding Mantra, created by interlocking several geometric shapes such as circles, triangles and floral patterns which helps us to resonate positive energy, disperse negative energy and to elevate one’s spirituality. Yantras function as revelatory symbols of cosmic truths. A Yantra and a Mantra, both are instruments used to induce a specific resonance in which the first one is for the visual sense and later for the auditive sense. Each Yantras are often focused on a specific deity, and so by tuning into a Yantra one can tap into corresponding deity or creative force centers in the universe.
Occult Yantras functions as aids to or chief instruments of meditative discipline. They are an mixture of three important principles: the form (Akriti-rupa) principle, the function (Kriya-rupa) principle and the power (Shakthi-rupa) principle. Akriti-rupa refers to the inner or hidden form of structures which means that everything have a gross structure and a ‘subtle’ inner structure, with a basic causal pattern (the inner form) for the external form. The fundemental shapes coupled in creating a Yantra are psychological representations which correspond to the various phases of inner consciousness along which the control and the expansion of psychic forces are probable. This is why a Yantra is said to embody the Function principle. By constant worship or meditation, the Yantra is said to move beyond ‘form’ and ‘function’ and emerges as a ‘power diagram’ (Sakti-rupa) endowed with a self-generating propensity to transform a spiritual experience into a psychic one. It’s here where the Yantra is said to be ‘revealed’.
All graphic shapes used in a Yantra corresponds to the psychological schema. The outer gates, the lotus petal, the inner geometric shapes and the bindu resembles the gates of one’s consciousness, the spiritual enfoldment, the stages of spiritual ascent and one’s innermost self respectively. They are considered to reveal the inner basis of the forms and shapes flourished in the universe. Just as, whatever the outer structure, all matter is made of an essential basic component, the atom, so each and every aspect of the world can be seen in its structural form like a Yantra.
Most Yantras are surrounded by a square (bhupur) with four gates. These square enact the material world while the gate enacts the access into the Yantra. The different shapes, symbols, numbers inscribed inside are like the parts of a mechanism which guide us gradually towards its center, the Supreme Consciousness. A Yantra is thus an instrument that allows us to make an inner journey to identify the supreme self.
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