Meditation on the Sri Yantra is an enlightening experience
Meditation on the Sri Yantra is an enlightening experience. This is what this aspirant humbly believes to be the essence of the Sri Yantra and the ultimate goal of all living. There are many different Sri Yantra rituals out there, the “best” ritual is the one that, motivated by your love and bliss, improves the quality of your life and the lives of those close to you and arouses your Shiva/Shakti. Sri Yantra meditation sitting in half padma-asana playing a Tibetan singing bowl gazing at the center of the Yantra.
Sri Yantra and Shiva painted by the devotee. Draw the Yantra my loves, draw it. In actual practice a Yantra is a symbolic representation of aspects of divinity, usually the Mother Goddess. Though drawn in two dimensions, a Yantra is supposed to represent a three dimensional object. Three-dimensional Yantras are now becoming increasingly common. The Yantra is primarily a meditation tool both for serious spiritual seekers as well as sculptors in the classical tradition. Before creating their artifact in wood, stone or metal, they draw up a Yantra that represents the attributes of the god they wish to sculpt. The Yantra is mistakenly thought to be a symbol purely of the manifold aspects of the Mother Goddess. However there are Yantras for Ganesha and Kubera too, male deities, though they share a common Yaksha origin with Laxmi. The Yaksha were the original chthonic deities of India and the Yantra system seems to have been incorporated into the Vedic worldview at a later stage. Within the body of the more complex Yantras are inscribed the monosyllabic mantras, the bija or seed mantras, that are supposed to constitute the spiritual body of the goddess or god. 
The design always focuses the attention onto the center of the Yantra, usually a dot or bindu, which is the Locus Mundi, the center of all things and represents the Un manifested Potential of all creation. Thus, every Yantra is a symbolic representation of both the deity as well as the universe, as the mother goddess not only permeates the substance of the universe, she is, literally, the Universe itself. Thus every Yantra is a mandala, though not all mandalas are Yantras. In ancient texts, Lord Shiva is supposed to have explained the mystical meaning of the Yantra to his consort, the Goddess Parvati thus, “The Yantra is as essential to a god as oil is to the oil lamp or as a body is to a living human being”. The Yantra is actually more powerful than an image of god which, to be energized, needs a Yantra to be affixed at its base or back anyway. A Yantra always has a mantra associated with it. Just as the mind is a part of yet different from the body, so is the mantra from the Yantra. The mantra is the mind consciousness while the Yantra is the form of the deity. There are four basic types of Yantras:. Astrological Yantras (used to harness the energies of the nine major planets);. Architectural Yantras (used for the ground plans of temples); and, the Numerical Yantras (comprising select combinations of numbers which serve as talismans). indiayogi offers you energized Yantras from its Yogi Shop. These Yantras, be it copper/panch-dhatu/crystal, can be placed in your temple, put above a door or kept at your work place where, if worshipped with sincere devotion, they will bring their own rewards. The benefits of all Yantras are therefore to be found individually and collectively in the Sri Yantra.
