Sri Yantra Transcript

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Let’s journey into the full mystery of the Sri Yantra. Together we’ll uncover the meaning behind this sacred symbol, believed to date back circa 600 BC. We’ll explore the Earth Citadel, her circuits, 43 triangles, and the importance of the absolute stillpoint at the center. We will begin with a few observations for reference . . .

The Earth Citadel is the root energy vortex of the Great Goddess. The Sri Yantra mandala contains and reflects the energy centers known as chakras. The root represents the foundation. There are three levels in the Earth Citadel. The citadel is protected by a group of male warrior guardians facing all ten directions, and inside, there are eight fierce Bhairavi Shakti.

On the first level, there are four gates guarded by male Worldly Protectors known as the “Kokopala” or The Guardians of the Directions. The ancient Sri Yantra mandala is the most fortified and guarded yantra known. It is called the Queen of all yantras because all other yantras can be found within it. In the Sri Yantra, the adept will find a complete reality — a reality defined by wisdom and beauty.

On the second level, the adept is witness to the ten divine Siddhi Shaktis. The Siddhis hold mastery over the ten supernatural powers. Siddhi means insights. These powers or boons are granted to the aspiring adept as they progress. They may or may not be utilized. They can range from having the ability to become the size of an atom, to obtaining anything from anywhere.

On the third level, we encounter the Matrikas or Little Mothers.
They are fearsome Bhairavi Shakti and are tasked with protecting the Earth Citadel and all those who enter. They act as a mirror for the adept. They rule: desire, anger, envy, delusion, greed, jealousy, virtue, and vice.

The three circles represent Time: past, present, and future. The wheel of time is without beginning and without end. Time is a rhythm, and time rhythms range from the fast-ticking atom to the slower expanse of the universe. Within this structure lie secrets to be revealed as the adept gains access to Prakata Yoginis’ hidden treasures.

The sixteen-petaled lotus represents the generative/sex center and has 16 divine Shakti Yoginis. It is ruled by the Goddess Tripura-Rishi, the fulfiller of all desires and expectations. She can grant all wishes. The Shakti instruct mastery over mind, ego, sound, touch, sight, taste, smell, intellect, steadiness, memory, name, growth, etheric body, revivification, and the physical body. Mastery of physical creation is attainable.

The eight-petaled lotus is the center of Shri. This center is ruled by Gupta-Tara Yogini and is represented by eight dynamic Shakti Yoginis. Duality consciousness arises as the Shakti generate destructive agitation in all realms for the adept to experience and transcend. The Shakti teach mastery over speech, pleasure, holding, walking, eliminating, abandoning, concentration, and detachment.

The fourteen outer triangles are represented by the Cosmic Queen Tripura Vasini and her exquisite Shakti ‘attractors.’ In this circuit, they are the givers of good fortune. The triangles are bioenergetic currents known as nadis. Transformation of the 14 energy channels opens the heart center and prepares the adept for an enlightened state of being.

When the circuit of ten smaller triangles is reached, the adept acquires protection at all levels. Ruled by the alluring red Tripura Malini and her ten vibrant-colored Shaktis, who are omnipresent and considered having no beginning or end. This circuit rules the brow chakra, also known as Shiva’s eye.

The eight small triangles represent the great healing level ruled by Siddhamba Devi, the Red Queen, and her beatific Shakti ensemble. The Shaktis rule: cold, heat, happiness, sorrow, desire, and the three fundamental qualities of nature known as Sattva, Rajas, and Prakriti. This circuit is the ultimate remover of all disease and produces the nectar of immortality, which drips down the throat for as long as the experience of pure jnana awareness exists. When kundalini reaches manas chakra, bliss follows.

The central triangle is the Temple of Sri and guarded by fifteen Shakti goddesses. The now ‘open’ soma chakra grants all success and cosmic knowledge. In this temple rule the three great forms of Tripura Amba, who bestows the humbled adept with an auspicious radiant life and the full spectrum of supernatural powers.

The acquisition of power is not without irony, as one accomplished adept has observed:

“It is strange how it works when you are able to possess most anything. There is nothing you want that you do not use. You have no desire for fame, power, glory, or riches. Your desire then is to live in a bracket where you are neither envied nor pitied.”

The Bindu dot represents the crown center. This is the doorway to an awakened, blissful state. It is also referred to as the 1000-petaled lotus. This lotus flower has three kundalini openings. The first is a gentle opening of the crown. The second opening is the top half of the flower. This opening is quite intense, as the kundalini fire bathes the nervous system with blissful immersion lasting for many hours and days. Having reached this center, the adept experiences the Supreme Goddess Tripura Amba.

The third and final opening is the bottom half of the flower. It may take some years between openings. This third opening is rare indeed, as it introduces a permanent relation with the formless absolute where Shakti arises spontaneously in waves of bliss, then resides, then arises at her every whim. The adept now has access to cosmic consciousness. This is a state of full realization, also known as nirvakalpa samadhi.

“It is impossible to describe the expansion of consciousness.”

The bindu dot represents the universal relationship between Shiva and Shakti. Shiva represents supreme stillness, the void, and the fixed point of one’s self. Shiva attracts the active nature of Shakti bliss. Shakti is the divine wisdom mother.

The adept now bears witness to the Supreme Goddess. In one instance she is the Formless Absolute. In another she is embodied, an enigma, young and alluring, appearing intoxicated, and sexual, and yet conversely holding a book of knowledge while she dispels fear and holds a sacred rosary. She grants boons (powers) of every type. Thus, she seeks to fulfill every desire. Liberation and great power ensues.

Man’s spiritual journey, from the stage of material existence to ultimate enlightenment, is mapped on the Sri Yantra. The spiritual journey is taken as a pilgrimage in which every step is an ascent to the center — a movement beyond one’s limited existence — and every level is nearer to the goal.

Such a journey is mapped in stages, and each of these stages corresponds with one of the circuits of which the Sri Yantra is composed — from the outer plane to the Bindu in the center.

The goal of contemplating the Sri Yantra is that the adept can rediscover his primordial sources. The circuits symbolically indicate the successive phases in the process of becoming.

The Sri Yantra is a tool to give a vision of the totality of existence, so that the adept may internalize its symbols for the ultimate realization of his unity with the cosmos.