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Sri Yantra
In Hinduism and Buddhism, A yantra is
any design intended for visual meditation, to teach spiritual
doctrines by way of the designs composition. Like a Mandela,
the yantra is used to focus the mind.
A yantra, in Buddhism and
Hinduism, is, like a Mandela, a visual meditation, designed
to teach assist the meditator
to focus the mind through spiritual contemplation of the
symbol. One of the most important of all yantras is Sri
Yantra (the Great Yantra), which is formed of interlocking
triangles. The upward pointing triangles represent the
male attribute (lingam), the downward pointing triangles
the female power (yoni or Shakti). It represents a continual
expansion of this mystical union of female and male, which
is the creative process; for this reason one of the names
of the yantra is "form in expansion". The final
center is not shown, as the meditators must envision and
comprehend that within themselves.
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