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

to mystick, while i was astral travelling accidentaly once,i saw this fiery place,i cant recall too much as it has been over a decade ago but it seemed to be like a desert like atmosphere,it had fiery pits and i saw hundreds of these watcher things in that area,they also drained the heck out of my astral self not unlike the dementor creatures in the harry potter shows.Watching that show brought a chill to me as i remembered those creatures.

To vagrant dreamer,before u start a meditation on the yantra,i would recomend chanting the words Aum Gahm Ghanapathi Namahe at least 21 time and then look calmly into the yantra and chant the Om nama shivaya into the yantra directly.you will have o vibrate the mantra and visualize it both vibrating thruout your entire body,every cell and atom in your body and at the same time vibrating throughout the universe and then focus all the energy from tha mantra and direct it to the centre of the yantra..Use it as a calling and lord shiva might send you some of his greatest devotees and gurus to you through the yantra.good luck.

I write this here only because it was in the presence of my nearly completed (started painting) sri yantra last night. I have stopped smoking pot, maybe a month ago, just after new years, not for any moral reason, I was just sort of tired of being stoned, and I didn't get what I used to get out of it. Well, last night I smoked one 'hit', and when my energy became airy as it does under the influence of the Plant, the energy that I have now become accustomed to working with was way too much for me! I thought I was going die - of course I wasn't, but you know how the Plant can mess with your head.

My energy was unable to stand before the torrent of energy that I am normally able to connect to, and every time I closed my eyes I litterally felt a current like a ceaseless gale of wind, and it would carry my energy up and away, into the planes that I am unconsciously in touch with through my intention, but which in that state I was not protected enough to withstand.

For those that don't know, the Plant gives your energy an airy quality which makes it appear 'fuzzy'. It is a decrease in density, so that where you were before a 'stone' now you are a 'cloud'. Because the state of the energy is so loose, it can easily move. This is why the Plant makes it so easy to shift awareness, and why energy control is much easier when you are high - to a certain degree, only energies of very familiar planes are safe when you're high. The plane I kept being pulled to was not one of those planes.

At the peak of my distress, when I was unable to hold my own energy together, I went to my room, sat under the yantra, and began chanting the mantra of Ganesh, Aum Gahm Ghanapathi Namahe. It was instinctive, I have been chanting it while I paint as an initial purification ritual. Well, the most delightful thing happened. I am not speaking at this time, so I was chanting in my mind, and what was originally my own voice of devotion (i.e. not my own voice per say, but a vibratory voice centered in my heart chakra) was accompanied by what sounded like a child's voice. Two distinct voices. And then there were more, until there were a whole chorus of children's voiced joyfully chanting the mantra with me. My heart swelled with the same sort of happiness one (hopefully) experiences when in the presence of gleefully laughing toddlers or babies.

Then, as they arranged themselves around me, which is to say that I heard the voices from all directions, I began to sense movement in the energy around my room. I looked through my third eye, which for me is opening the eye as though it were litterally a third eye and looking through it, and saw some number of tiny white elephant people, dressed in little blue and white getups, each adorned with little necklaces and bangles of gold. They had little bells around their ankles, and they danced as they chanted. They began to work with my energy, starting first at the crown, they danced around each chakra and a number of them had scrub brushes. They literally scrubbed my energy from head to toe, and then pulled me out of my room and into the shower, where they taught me how to be devotional more deeply as I chanted and took a purifying shower. I have never felt cleaner after a shower and while I was still somewhat high, there was no more anxiety that night.

When I went back to my room to meditate and make use of my state of mind while it was there, the little elephant people were with me for a while longer, and then left through the center of the sri yantra! I had not noticed where they came from when they arrived. I sat in meditation for a while, contemplating the revelations that were now pouring through my mind clearly about the state of mind itself, the Plant, where I had begun disrespecting it originally, what was happening to my energy, why I had had anxiety, etc., there were a lot, and I kept most of them in my journal.

And before I went to sleep, I was able to see the aura, very clearly, of everything in my room. A couple of objects had dark auras that were dissonant with the rest of the room. One I 'spoke' with, for a time, until it's aura changed, the other I threw out after a brief goodbye. I looked in the mirror to see if I could check my own aura, which I was already able to feel as though it had color, and it was a light fluffy bluish violet. Everything in the room has a slightly bluish color, shades thereof in any case, except the yanra which is developing a bright violet.

This morning I woke up full of joy, even though I did not remember my dreams tonight - the first night since I stopped smoking, and there is an entry in my journal I made last night about the cost of 'dreaming while awake' - and my morning japa was perhaps the most devotional set ever. I made prayers to lord Siva as I was falling asleep.

I'm not incredibly religious, generally, though very spiritual. While I am always hesitant to take labels on myself, I have never felt more purity and joy, never had more mystical experiences, than I have since I began practicing bits and pieces of the Hindu tradition. Perhaps I will become more deeply acquainted.

Peace