One other thing, Kamel/yantras

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My experience with yantras, especially the ones engraved on copper

and on pendants is that you really need to get one that's been

consecrated properly and/or do regular worship and meditation with it

to get the best benefit. I don't recommend them for average

people. People who are already operating on a subtle level (subtle

interpretations, impressions, etc.) will find they're more attacted

to yantras than the personal form of the deity. For the curious,

when you stare at one long enough and change your focus, you'll

usually be able to see some energy swirling around, simply by the

design of it.

 

It also helps to learn the various seed mantras that are imprinted on

the yantra and chant those, offering flowers or rice onto the

yantra. There's are enough resources on the net to translate

commerically available copper yantras, mostly being in devangiri

script, telugu or tamil. Generally, you start from the outside and

circle clockwise until you reach the center.

 

Yantra and Mantra worship go together. There are many forms of a

yantra for the same deity. The numbered squares or "magic squares"

as they're sometimes called are called "beesa yantras" I think. You

worship by starting with the smallest number leading up to the

largest one. If you research the Sri yantra, you'll see that there

are different deities assigned to the different parts of the yantra.

 

I've recently bought Sw. Satyananada Saraswati (of Shree Maa)'s book

on Siva Puja and Advanced Yagna. It's actually 3 separate pujas, of

varying difficultly/complexity. There's simple worship of the

yantra in it that could be used as a template, same with the fire

ceremony that he gives. I really like his English translation of

the verses so you know what you're saying.

 

tom

 

 

, "karisprowl"

<karisprowl> wrote:

> Since I am unknowledgeable about Eastern sacred geometries, I

cannot

> comment on the symbological meanings of the designs.

>

> But, I can tell you from personal experience that meditating on a

> yantra can cause one to feel "sucked into" the design. That is, one

> feels as if the design is absorbing one, and vice versa. One can

start

> to feel "hard wired" into the yantra design. This seems to me to be

> especially true of the Shri Yantra.

>

> Also, a two-dimensional yantra will appear to be three-dimensional,

> after a short while of meditatin