YANTRA

Meaning of numbers Meaning of symbols The 10 Dikpala Matrika Yantra 7 Chakra Shri Yantra 15 Nitya Navgraha Yantra Ganesh Yantra Hanuman Yantra Rama Yantra

Kali Yantra Mahavidyas Durga Yantra Mrityunjaya Yantra Gayatri Yantra Sarasvati Yantra Mahalakshmi Yantra Garapal Yantra Vastu Yantra

Kaal Sarp Yog Y. Sarvamanokamna Y. Dattatreya Yantra Other Yantras Yantra in copper Swastika Flower of Life Sacred Geometry

YANTRA

eight Mahagauri	one Shailaputri	six Katyayani
three Chandraghanta	five Skandamata	seven Kalaratri
four Kushmanda	nine Siddhidatri	two Brahmacharini

Nav Durga Yantra - the yantra of the nine Durgas

The Yantra is the graphic, mathematics and magic representation of the divine one. It is an ancient tradition that get lost in the night of the times; we can find graphic representations of God in the prehistoric mural paintings, games of numbers and magic squares in a lot of ancient cultures. But it is in the tantric tradition that the Yantras assume a bigger spectrum of uses.

Many Yantras are contained in a square (bhupur) with four gates. The square represents the material world while the gates are the points of access into the Yantra.

Apart from invoking the divine, the Yantra is used by the Aghoris as object of meditation. It is painted in the walls of the temples or next to the dhuni (sacred fire). It is engraved on small copper plates and usually positioned in the mandir (temple). Or It is written within small squares of paper inside a silver or copper container as amulets (kavacha); for every application there is a specify Yantra.

The study of the Yantras is an important footstep in the particular sadhana (spiritual path) of the Aghoris.

MEANING OF THE NUMBERS

	1. absolute, action
	2. duality, ying yang (+ / -), masculine and female
	3. 2+1 perfection
	4. earth
	5. man
	6. material excess
	7. the man dominates the subject
	8. endless
	9. spirituality
	0. the circle, God

1 9 evolution of matter, involution of spirit

9 1 evolution of spirit, involution of matter

MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS

	Bindu - representing the supreme consciousness		Nada Bindu formed by a static bindu and a dynamic sound (nada)
	Space		Center
	Earth		Static, Earth
	Masculine, Fire		Espression
	Female, Water		Creation, Clockwise movement
	Equilibrium		Dissolution, Counterclockwise movement
	Preservation, balance between static and dinamic		Swastika - symbol of Aum and Ganesh

Here are some examples of Yantra:

MASCULINE YANTRA FEMALE YANTRA

GURU YANTRA the union among the masculine and female yantras.

THE TEN DIKPALA

(Guardians of the directions)

Name	Direction	Mantra	Weapon	Consort	Guardian Matrika	Graha (Planet)
Kubera	North	Om Sham Kuberaya Namah	Gada (mace)	Kuberajaya	Kumari	Budha (Mercury)
Yama	South	Om Mam Yamaya Namah	Danda (staff)	Yami	Varahi	Mangala (Mars)
Indra	East	Om Lam Indraya Namah	Vajra (thunderbolt)	Shaci	Aindri	Surya (Sun)
Varuṇa	West	Om Vam Varunaya Namah	Pasha (noose)	Nalani	Varuni	Shani (Saturn)
Ishana	Northeast	Om Ham Ishanaya Namah	Trishula (trident)	Parvati	Maheshvari	Brihaspati (Jupiter)
Agni	Southeast	Om Ram Agnaye Namah	Shakti (Spear)	Svaha	Meshavahini	Shukra (Venus)
Vayu	Northwest	Om Yam Vayuve Namah	Ankusha (goad)	Bharati	Mrigavahini	Chandra (Moon)
Nirriti	Southwest	Om Ksham Rakshasaya Namah	Khadga (sword)	Khadgi	Khadagadharini	Rahu (North Lunar Node)
Vishnu	Nadir	Om Klim Vishnave Namah	Chakra (discus)	Lakshmi	Vaishnavi	Lagna (ascendant)
Brahma	Zenith	Om Hrim Brahmane Namah	Padma (lotus)	Sarasvati	Brahmani	Ketu (South Lunar Node)

MATRIKA YANTRA

The letters of the Devanagari alphabet are associated with Matrikas, various forms of Devi, the Great Mother, in their sound form. This yantra contains all 51 letters or matrikas and is used in the rite of purification of mantras (samskara).

In this version is added the conjunct jñ, forming 52 letters: 16 vowels and 36 consonants.

7 CHAKRA

SHRI YANTRA

Devi Khadgamala Stotram

Nitya

The moon has 16 phases (kala). 15 phases are visible while the sixteenth kala is beyond our visibility. The 16 kala are governed by female deities known as Nitya. Nitya are the 15 aspects of Lalita Tripurasundari (Shri Yantra) associated with the 15 lunar days (tithi) of the waxing moon. The 15 Nitya are: Kameshvari, Bhagamalini, Nityaklinna, Bherunda, Vahnivasini, Mahavajreshwari, Shivadooti, Tvarita, Kulasundari, Nitya, Nilapataka, Vijaya, Sarvamangala, Jvalamalini and Chitra. Lalita Tripurasundari rules the not visible kala and is the manifestation of Para Shakti. Next come the Yantra associated with the 15 Nitya.

HANUMAN YANTRA: widely used by Aghoris for any health problem and as protection from negative forces.

RAMA YANTRA

9	16	5	4
7	2	11	14
12	13	8	1
6	3	10	15

GARAPAL YANTRA

ॐ	ॐ	ॐ	ॐ
ॐ	ॐ	ॐ	ॐ
ह्रीं	ह्रीं	ह्रीं	ह्रीं
ह्रीं	ह्रीं	ह्रीं	ह्रीं

NAVGRAHA YANTRA - the yantra of the nine planets

10	5	12	7	2	9	8	3	10
11	9	7	8	6	4	9	7	5
6	13	8	3	10	5	4	11	6
JUPITER			MOON			MARS
9	4	11	6	1	8	11	6	13
10	8	6	7	5	3	12	10	8
5	12	7	2	9	4	7	14	9
MERCURY			SUN			VENUS
12	7	14	13	8	15	14	9	16
13	11	9	14	12	10	15	13	11
8	15	10	9	13	11	10	17	12
SATURN			RAHU			KETU

Rahu and Ketu are the lunar knots.

SURYA YANTRA

6	32	3	34	35	1
7	11	27	28	8	30
19	14	16	15	23	24
18	20	22	21	17	13
25	29	10	9	26	12
36	5	33	4	2	31

CHANDRA YANTRA

37	78	29	70	21	62	13	54	5
6	38	79	30	71	22	63	14	46
47	7	39	80	31	72	23	55	15
16	48	8	40	81	32	64	24	56
57	17	49	9	41	73	33	65	25
26	58	18	50	1	42	74	34	66
67	27	59	10	51	2	43	75	35
36	68	19	60	11	52	3	44	76
77	28	59	20	61	12	53	4	45

MANGAL YANTRA

11	24	7	20	3
4	12	25	8	16
17	5	13	21	9
10	18	1	14	22
23	6	19	2	15

BUDHA YANTRA

8	58	59	5	4	62	63	1
49	15	14	52	53	11	10	56
41	23	22	44	45	19	18	48
32	34	35	29	28	38	39	25
40	26	27	37	36	30	31	33
17	47	46	20	21	43	42	24
9	55	54	12	13	51	50	16
64	2	3	61	60	6	7	57

BRIHASPATI YANTRA

4	14	15	1
9	7	6	12
5	11	10	8
16	2	3	13

SUKRA YANTRA

22	47	16	41	10	35	4
5	23	48	17	42	11	29
30	6	24	49	18	36	12
13	31	7	25	43	19	37
38	14	32	1	26	44	20
21	39	8	33	2	27	45
46	15	40	9	34	3	28

MAHA LAXMI YANTRA o SARVATADRAM YANTRA

22	3	9	15	16
14	20	21	2	8
1	7	13	19	25
18	24	5	6	12
10	11	17	23	4

OM HRIM SHRIM KAMALALAYE PRASID SHRIM HRIM OM MAHALAXMYE NAMAH

KUBERA KOLAM

23	28	21
22	24	26
27	20	25

MAHA LAXMI YANTRA

DHANDA YANTRA

ॐ	प	ॐ
अ	स्	टा
ॐ	रा	ॐ

KALI YANTRA

MAHAVIDYAS

The Divine Mother is worshipped as ten cosmic personalities, the Dasa-Mahavidya. The Mahavidyas are considered Tantric in nature and are usually identified as:

Kali: The ultimate form of Brahman, "Devourer of Time".
Tara: The Goddess as Guide and Protector, or Who Saves. Who offers the ultimate knowledge which gives salvation (also known as Neel Saraswati).
Shodashi or Lalita Tripurasundari: The Goddess Who is "Beautiful in the Three Worlds"; the "Tantric Parvati" or the "Moksha Mukta".
Bhuvaneshvari: The Goddess as World Mother, or whose body is the cosmos.
Bhairavi: The Fierce Goddess.
Chinnamasta: The self-decapitated Goddess.
Dhumavati: The Widow Goddess, or the Goddess of death.
Bagalamukhi: The Goddess who paralyzes enemies.
Matangi: the Prime Minister of Lalita; the "Tantric Saraswati".
Kamala: The Lotus Goddess; the "Tantric Lakshmi".

DURGA YANTRA

MRITYUNJAYA YANTRA

GANESH YANTRA

SARASVATI YANTRA

७६	१९	२	८
७	३	७८	७६
१०	७४	१	९
४	१	८५	७१

ॐ ह्रीं ऐं ह्रीं

ॐ सरस्वत्यै नम:

HSAUH YANTRA

RUDRA BHAIRAVI YANTRA

TARA YANTRA

NAV YONI YANTRA

CHINNAMASTA YANTRA

KALKI YANTRA

BISA YANTRA

SARVAMANOKAMNA YANTRA

VASTU YANTRA

Vastu Shastra is an ancient doctrine which consists of precepts born to a traditional view of how the laws of nature affect human dwellings. The designs are based on directional alignments. It used to be applied in Hindu architecture, especially for temples, and extends to other areas, including vehicles, boats, furniture, sculpture, paintings, etc.

The Vastu Yantra is an indispensable part of Vastu Shastra and constitutes the mathematical basis and schematic for the generation of design. It is the metaphysical plan of a building that incorporates coarse bodies and supernatural forces. It provides the method that determines the requirements of architecture in relation to its directions.

Vastu Yantra according to Mahanirvana Tantra

Vastu Purusha Mandala

KAAL SARP YOG YANTRA

Kaal Sarp Yog happen when in a Horoscope, all the seven planets (Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Saturn) are placed between Rahu and Ketu Axis (north and south nodes of Moon), Rahu is serpent’s head and Ketu is dragon’s tail. This planets combination is considered very evil and harmful for the person. However have Kaal Sarp Yog in the horoscope does not mean that the person will be totally unlucky and devoid of all the joys of life.

One of the remedies for this problem is the Kaal Sarp Yog Yantra to establish in your home and worship it regularly.

GAYATRI YANTRA

ASHTANGA YANTRA

Dattatreya Yantras

Yantra in copper

Swastika

In the West the swastika association with Nazism has largely overshadowed its religious and cultural significance. The word swastika comes from Sanskrit and signifies well being and good luck and it is still used extensively throughout the east as decoration on homes, temples and at festivals. Further more ancient Greeks, Hittites, Celts and even Native Americans also used the symbol. The swastika was subverted and adopted by Adolf Hitler in the 1920s as a symbol for his Nazi party, a meaning which has taken on significance in the west. It's time to clear up the misconception and re-claim the swastika.

The Flower of Life

The Flower of Life is another symbol found in many cultures that use sacred geometry. Ancient representations of this symbol can be found in India, in the Assyrian palaces, Egypt, China, Japan and many other places. Kabbalistic Tree of Life symbol is derived from the diagram of the Flower of Life.

Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry is used in every culture in the construction and structuring of sacred buildings like temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments, churches and sacred spaces such as altars, sacred fires, as well as the creation of sacred art or objects. Here are some examples:

6	32	3	34	35	1
7	11	27	28	8	30
19	14	16	15	23	24
18	20	22	21	17	13
25	29	10	9	26	12
36	5	33	4	2	31

37	78	29	70	21	62	13	54	5
6	38	79	30	71	22	63	14	46
47	7	39	80	31	72	23	55	15
16	48	8	40	81	32	64	24	56
57	17	49	9	41	73	33	65	25
26	58	18	50	1	42	74	34	66
67	27	59	10	51	2	43	75	35
36	68	19	60	11	52	3	44	76
77	28	59	20	61	12	53	4	45

8	58	59	5	4	62	63	1
49	15	14	52	53	11	10	56
41	23	22	44	45	19	18	48
32	34	35	29	28	38	39	25
40	26	27	37	36	30	31	33
17	47	46	20	21	43	42	24
9	55	54	12	13	51	50	16
64	2	3	61	60	6	7	57

22	47	16	41	10	35	4
5	23	48	17	42	11	29
30	6	24	49	18	36	12
13	31	7	25	43	19	37
38	14	32	1	26	44	20
21	39	8	33	2	27	45
46	15	40	9	34	3	28

6	32	3	34	35	1
7	11	27	28	8	30
19	14	16	15	23	24
18	20	22	21	17	13
25	29	10	9	26	12
36	5	33	4	2	31

37	78	29	70	21	62	13	54	5
6	38	79	30	71	22	63	14	46
47	7	39	80	31	72	23	55	15
16	48	8	40	81	32	64	24	56
57	17	49	9	41	73	33	65	25
26	58	18	50	1	42	74	34	66
67	27	59	10	51	2	43	75	35
36	68	19	60	11	52	3	44	76
77	28	59	20	61	12	53	4	45

8	58	59	5	4	62	63	1
49	15	14	52	53	11	10	56
41	23	22	44	45	19	18	48
32	34	35	29	28	38	39	25
40	26	27	37	36	30	31	33
17	47	46	20	21	43	42	24
9	55	54	12	13	51	50	16
64	2	3	61	60	6	7	57

22	47	16	41	10	35	4
5	23	48	17	42	11	29
30	6	24	49	18	36	12
13	31	7	25	43	19	37
38	14	32	1	26	44	20
21	39	8	33	2	27	45
46	15	40	9	34	3	28

6	32	3	34	35	1
7	11	27	28	8	30
19	14	16	15	23	24
18	20	22	21	17	13
25	29	10	9	26	12
36	5	33	4	2	31

37	78	29	70	21	62	13	54	5
6	38	79	30	71	22	63	14	46
47	7	39	80	31	72	23	55	15
16	48	8	40	81	32	64	24	56
57	17	49	9	41	73	33	65	25
26	58	18	50	1	42	74	34	66
67	27	59	10	51	2	43	75	35
36	68	19	60	11	52	3	44	76
77	28	59	20	61	12	53	4	45

8	58	59	5	4	62	63	1
49	15	14	52	53	11	10	56
41	23	22	44	45	19	18	48
32	34	35	29	28	38	39	25
40	26	27	37	36	30	31	33
17	47	46	20	21	43	42	24
9	55	54	12	13	51	50	16
64	2	3	61	60	6	7	57

22	47	16	41	10	35	4
5	23	48	17	42	11	29
30	6	24	49	18	36	12
13	31	7	25	43	19	37
38	14	32	1	26	44	20
21	39	8	33	2	27	45
46	15	40	9	34	3	28