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The SriYantra penadant
The
structure of the SriYantra pendant is one that provides abundance,
beauty, and balance between male and female and between spiritual and
material.
Yantra is a mystical hindu concept that describes a structure or
diagram used to balance or focus the consciousness in order to achieve
spiritual comprehension. Wearing the Yantra as a pendant or observing a
picture of it is intended to endow one with mystical or spiritual
abilities.
The SriYantra is a structure made of nine triangles tied to each other
surrounding a center point called a “Bindu”. This point represents the
beginning of creation out of the "Great Void". The use of the number
three actually exists is several cultures and the representation of
three squared depicts, for several reasons, the power of creation and
all creation itself. For example: the word God in Hebrew – Elohim – is
made up of the words “El” (God), “Elah”(Goddess), and “Elim”(Gods),
meaning singular-male, singular-female, and plural.
In Hinduism, the structure represents lakshmi, the entity of abundance
in all the worlds, as well as “Triphora Sundary” - the beauty in all
three worlds.
The four triangled pointing upwards represent “Shiva”, the male force
of the universe. The five triangles pointing downeards represent
“Shakti”, the female force of the universe.
Together the large triangles make up 43 small triangles that represent
the “Cosmic Womb” and the “Aduitah” or lack of duality (beyond the
illusional preseption of good and evil).
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