Sri Yantra Experience, Link to geometric instructions within... Options

So, at the moment i'm going through an extended silent meditation, from the previous full moon to this coming full moon, which will be an eclipse. It's something I do once in a while to conserve energy.

Well, this time around I decided to start off on a good foot, and since lately i've been running into the term 'yantra' constantly - we all know what a yantra is? - I went looking for one that was sort of catch-all like I normally do with symbols of this nature.

Well, I found the Sri Yantra, the yantra from which all others are ultimately derived. It represents the Shiva and Shakti principles intertwined in the play that creates evolution.

instructions for building the yantra here: Sri Yantra

I am painting it on my wall, I've just now finished drawing it, in the prescribed order according to this site, and I cannot believe the amount of energy it took to produce this symbol. I've done murals on my walls since my first apartment, I'll spend all day and then be generally, somewhat wired afterwards, but I worked on just the drawing aspect of this yantra for six hours, and immediately the energy in my room has become totally different - even the wards that form my little containment bubble (everyone who has been in here, mundane or otherwise, says it's like walking into a different reality for no apparent reason) of energy have taken on a new sort of resonance since the beginning of the process.

This is a powerful symbol, I haven't even connected to it deeply, and while I was litterally wired like a madman when I was drawing it, as soon as it was done I nearly passed out from exhaustion!

I reccommend drawing this on a piece of posterboard as a sort of meditation to anyone, I can't even describe the subtle change that has overcome my psyche since the beginning. Maybe nothing new to those long dedicated to an eastern, especially hindu or buddhist tradition, but for anyone who isn't familiar with this stuff, here's my own testimony.

I'll take a picture and post it when it's finished. On that note, i'm buying paints tomorrow (well, today, really, EST) anyone have any suggestions to particularly good colors for this yantra, those who are familiar? I was thinking purple for evolution and spiritual energy, yellow for enlightenment and illumination, red on the interior petals (mostly since I always see them done in red, but for electrical principle as well), but can't think of a good idea for the exterior petals. Also, any thoughts on a good background color? This thing takes up one entire wall, the southern one cause it was biggest, and i'm trying to work a combination tasteful decor + effective color correspondence.

peace

Doesn't appear as anyone else has mentioned this so far - have you tried to visualise this 2D glyph in 3D?

No I haven't, I'm still working on constructing the yantra in my mind's eye in 2-dimensions, much less three or more. It's more complex than any symbol I've ever committed to memory.

I suppose the discrete triangles are supposed to be pyraminds? Nine interlocked pyramids, just as there are nine interlocked triangles, within a sphere instead of a circle, right? Once I'm able to maintain the image of the 2-d symbol, I'll work on 3-d that sounds challenging.

edit: Also, I found a site credited by Depak Chopra (jury still out on him in my opinion, but...) which discussed an experiment with the sound AUM, in which the vibration of a sound is translated into geometric forms according to the interaction of wavelengths, and that the sound AUM when the last of the M sound is passed, produces in the last few frames, the Sri Yantra. No credits to the research, so no telling, but sounded quite amazing.

Am I to understand that any mantra can be chanted in combination with focus on the Sri Yantra? I chant Gayatri, Heart Sutra Mantra (gate gate), and Om Mane Padme Hum. I have seen several mantras that have been associated with it, does it have a specific one that anyone here knows of?

peace
brian

This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Feb 4 2007, 05:17 PM