Shri Yantra

Shri — sacred. Yantra — instrument of liberation. It is usually drawn in silence, red on white, for meditation.

This one is different.

Nine triangles penetrate each other: four pointing upward — Shiva, consciousness. Five pointing downward — Shakti, energy. At the point of their meeting, 43 small triangles are born. At the very center — Bindu: the point from which the universe unfolds.

Outside — a lotus. Then another. Then three circles: past, present, future. Then a square with four gates — bhupura, the boundary between the sacred and everything else.

The proportions of Shri Yantra correspond to the golden ratio. Mathematics and mysticism have long walked hand in hand.

Each layer — a farewell. The square. The lotus. The triangles. At the center — Bindu: the point where duality ceases to be a question.

The yantra was built for liberation. Literally.

The red here — Shakti at full voice. Grey — Shiva, who listens. As always, one speaks, the other holds.