YANTRA
Yantra is the Sanskrit word for
"instrument" or "machine." Traditionally such symbols
were used in Eastern mysticism to balance the mind or focus it on spiritual
concepts.
In the Tantric traditions of Indian religions the
act of wearing, depicting, enacting and/or concentrating on a yantra is held to
have spiritual or astrological or magical benefits.
Many yantras seem like nothing more than an interwoven
complex of geometrical designs centered upon a single point called a bindu.
A yantra, though, is a complex of stored imagery of sight and sound. Yantras often have an accompanying
mantra and psychic and mystical content.
Though two-dimensional, yantras are conceived as
having depth and full dimension. They may be drawn or painted on any
material, out of any substance.
A yantra is often enclosed in a square,
signifying the cosmic dynamics and the four corners of the universe.
Yantras are thus worshiped as containing divine presence.
The yantra is sometimes confused with a
mandala, the former appropriate to a specific devata (god, or guardian
spirit), the latter implying many devatas.
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