The YANTRA of the Universe. Expressions in ancient literature or recognition?
Bharat Bhushan - 17 July 2008
The use of the word 'YANTRA' and through the presentations of geometrical design, the perspectives in planning, is not to be extrapolated in religious thought with any prejudice. Knowledge is to be understood to be placed in the service of humanity and all natural systems and never to be established to any detriment.
YANTRA is presented by diagrams, usually geometrical, and mostly in precisely symmetrical representations. Any YANTRA being represented with non-geometrical design or in a totally asymmetrical sketch is most certainly a recent, i.e., less than 1000 years, visualisation by any seer, seeker or medium who would have placed it in a sequence or cluster of other YANTRAs.
Today, a YANTRA is usually recognised or is seen to mean a spiritual instrument or a mysterious diagram to be used as a hex or as a talisman. There are usually expressions in early spiritual literature or in claims made by those who would, that one could obtain a higher level of consciousness or achieve one's desires despite other problems.
The ancient sages, rishis or sadhus, studied the YANTRA, and taught about various representations. the earliest known use was in rituals, mostly spiritual, while also placed to consecrate events, structures, ownership, wars, blessings, victory, prevent defeat and later, as it began to be accepted greatly, as talismans and to ward away ghosts, demons, curses and hexes. The ancients came to understand that there seemed to be some unknown magic in the perfection of design. They were awed and amazed at the various aspects of geometry that could be seen in physical structures, and more so, in occurrences.
How can one explain the mind-numbing spectacle of the perfection of the Universe? Day follows night, and night follows day. The moon goes around the earth, as does our planet, traveling around its sun. What if, just imagine, what if, there was a sudden increase, at some moment in time, a sudden increase or flux in the gravitational pull of the sun on the earth, and later, it went back to normal. So, what if, the earth stopped for an hour or two, just stopped rotating or revolving, and then, resumed again, and went about its way, as if nothing happened.
Would it have an impact on the moon's orbit around the earth? Could such an occurrence have happened at any time? How would we ever know? There would be no signature of such an event. We do not know. We may never know. And yet, we assume we know all that there is to know about the Sun, the Moon and the Earth.
But, we do know, or assume that we know, that such an occurrence has never happened. And therefore, lies the continual appreciation of the perfection in the geometry of the Universe, and its representation in the YANTRA.
Bharat Bhushan - 17 July 2008
The use of the word 'YANTRA' and through the presentations of geometrical design, the perspectives in planning, is not to be extrapolated in religious thought with any prejudice. Knowledge is to be understood to be placed in the service of humanity and all natural systems and never to be established to any detriment.
YANTRA is presented by diagrams, usually geometrical, and mostly in precisely symmetrical representations. Any YANTRA being represented with non-geometrical design or in a totally asymmetrical sketch is most certainly a recent, i.e., less than 1000 years, visualisation by any seer, seeker or medium who would have placed it in a sequence or cluster of other YANTRAs.
Today, a YANTRA is usually recognised or is seen to mean a spiritual instrument or a mysterious diagram to be used as a hex or as a talisman. There are usually expressions in early spiritual literature or in claims made by those who would, that one could obtain a higher level of consciousness or achieve one's desires despite other problems.
The ancient sages, rishis or sadhus, studied the YANTRA, and taught about various representations. the earliest known use was in rituals, mostly spiritual, while also placed to consecrate events, structures, ownership, wars, blessings, victory, prevent defeat and later, as it began to be accepted greatly, as talismans and to ward away ghosts, demons, curses and hexes. The ancients came to understand that there seemed to be some unknown magic in the perfection of design. They were awed and amazed at the various aspects of geometry that could be seen in physical structures, and more so, in occurrences.
How can one explain the mind-numbing spectacle of the perfection of the Universe? Day follows night, and night follows day. The moon goes around the earth, as does our planet, traveling around its sun. What if, just imagine, what if, there was a sudden increase, at some moment in time, a sudden increase or flux in the gravitational pull of the sun on the earth, and later, it went back to normal. So, what if, the earth stopped for an hour or two, just stopped rotating or revolving, and then, resumed again, and went about its way, as if nothing happened.
Would it have an impact on the moon's orbit around the earth? Could such an occurrence have happened at any time? How would we ever know? There would be no signature of such an event. We do not know. We may never know. And yet, we assume we know all that there is to know about the Sun, the Moon and the Earth.
But, we do know, or assume that we know, that such an occurrence has never happened. And therefore, lies the continual appreciation of the perfection in the geometry of the Universe, and its representation in the YANTRA.
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