SRI YANTRA

SRI YANTRA.
WOODEN INLAY: MEASURE: CM 41 X 41 X 2.
WOODS: WALNUT - BEECH - LINDEN - RUMMY - MAHOGANY -

Sri Yantra is a mystical diagram, mainly from the Tantric traditions of the Indian religions. It is used for the worship of deities in temples or at home; as an aid in meditation; used for the benefits given by its occult powers based on Hindu astrology and tantric texts. It is also used for adornment of temple floors, due mainly to its aesthetic and symmetric qualities. Specific yantras are traditionally associated with specific deities.

As an aid to meditation, yantras represent the deity that is the object of meditation. These yantras emanate from the central point, the bindu. The yantra typically has several geometric shapes radiating concentrically from the center, including triangles, circles, hexagons, octagons, and symbolic lotus petals. The outside often includes a square representing the four cardinal directions, with doors to each of them. A popular form is the Sri Chakra, or Sri Yantra, which represents the goddess in her form as Tripura Sundari. Sri Chakra also includes a representation of Shiva, and is designed to show the totality of creation and existence, along with the user's own unity with the cosmos.