YANTRA MEDITATION

Since the symbol’s vibration resonates at a high frequency, when you focus your attention on a specific symbol, your consciousness opens to the resonance of that particular geometrical archetype, thereby resonating at a higher wavelength, and awakening and therefore detaching itself from the unconsciousness.

Awakening one’s inner centre implies gathering the energy of One-Self into a single creative point by gazing at it with consciousness.

The energy doesn’t emanate from the yantra, but from the consciousness itself, which communicates through the symbolic form. It acts as a mirror. The consciousness is mirroring itself, consciousness being conscious of itself. The meditations lead you into the unknown, where mind becomes no-mind, where form reveals its ultimate formlessness, and thingness reveals its inherent no-thing-ness. In other words, yantra meditation works by tuning you to the vibration of your true One Self. In this way, the meditations facilitate your transcendence.

Once you are introduced to the yantra, and once you start meditating with it, the meditation will direct you to the summit. In essence, whether we are being driven by spiritual instinct, or stumbling on the path or turning away, we are all essentially gathering intuitive knowingness that all of our movements will inevitably lead us back to the starting point, the one moment of the All-point, the beginning of our infinite being.

The integration and balance expansion into a totality happens on its own. You are not do do anything, just fix your consciousness in the one point, the point in the center of the Yantra, that’s all. To gather One-Self and centre it into consciousness is essentially a way towards inner awakening. This quest is the pivot around which yantra revolves.

Begin the meditation with your eyes open, simply gazing at the center of the Yantra, at the dot, at the point in the middle. It’s necessary to look only at the center of the yantra, focusing on the dot in the middle of the symbol, trying not to blink or blinking as little as possible. Gaze at the centre for three, six or nine minutes, or as long as you can. The key is to maintain a receptive, alert frame of mind, without drawing any conclusions, and free of concepts or thoughts. We simply gaze at the center with innocent, wonder-filled eyes. When we focus solely on the dot at the center of the yantra, not paying attention to anything outside of this, our consciousness deepens instead of flying off in different directions. The more we gaze, the more we will tend to feel weightless and unburdened.

Don’t worry about anything else around the dot in the middle. The middle point is where you witnessing consciousness is settling. The peripheral vision of your eyes will record any shape, image, colour without your mind being active interpreting and projecting.

As you look at the center of the image, simultaneously observe the “witness” in you that is seeing Yantra. As you watch, you may find thoughts arising. You cannot control the mind and its thoughts; you can only let go of our thoughts, you can only accept your thoughts as they are. Watch them coming and going. Do nothing. Allow any thoughts that arise simply to come and go without attaching your consciousness to them. You just watch the dot and the witness of the dot. That watching two things at once is called ‘A Double Arrow Attention. Not becoming attached will enable you to enter into relaxation. You don’t have to create this relaxed state; it will come on its own.

As you feel yourself gathering consciousness, allow yourself to flow with the momentum of this consciousness. By so doing, you will first experience an awakening to the forms and shapes around you. Secondly, you will experience an awareness of your body. Thirdly, you will experience an inner awakening to your thoughts and emotions. Finally, you will start feeling the one who is experiencing.

When your consciousness begins to shift inward, that is the right time to close your eyes. Don’t worry, your intuition will tell you when to close your eyes. Now watch the yantra imprinted in your mind’s eye, allowing it to gradually guide you within. As the imprint absorbs your consciousness, you won’t be able to tell whether the Yantra symbol is in you or whether you are within the symbol. Watch with relaxed attentiveness and alertness. Any thoughts that arise will dissolve. As this happens, you will become aware of your inner perceptions of reality, but don’t try to hold onto these perceptions. It’s important not to evaluate what comes up, but just to allow. The yantras are experiential and require no analysis. They don’t tell us the truth but are pointers toward truth. Truth is an experience, not a belief—and the experience always takes place in the now. All that’s required is for us to remain empty and receptive. The truth that lies within us can then surface, because our own being, which is part of infinite consciousness, is the truth.

With our eyes still closed, we will continue to see colors because they are easier to experience than forms. Seeing forms is a more complicated process of perception and the most abstract. What we perceive as a form is actually light. However, pure light is too intense for us, so it has to be separated into colors. The colors and forms of the Sacred Geometry Yantra image reflects something essential inside us. The way we perceive the colors is subjective because colors are associated with emotion and linked with the mind. Consequently, everyone associates different emotional and subjective values with different colors.

Just as a prism divides white light into separate colors, the mind divides colors into emotional, mental, and bodily aspects through its patterned reactions and memory, never allowing us to see the whole. During the yantra meditation, this heals. Slowly, the yantra colors, shapes, and forms we perceive with our inner eye disappear, and we enter a state of detached awareness in which there is nothing to see and nothing to search for, just the state of stillness, no movement in your mind.