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Part
4: How to Use Yantras
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As we showed above, the secret
key to using Yantras in meditation is resonance. The process of resonance is
established by mental focus on the image of the Yantra. As long as the mind
is tuned into the specific mood associated to that Yantra, the energy flows,
but when the resonance is stopped, the energy disappears.
Instructions for Yantra
meditation:
hang the Yantra on a wall
facing North or East, placing the center of the Yantra at the level of your
eyes
adopt your favorite posture
or, if you want, sit on a chair maintaining your spine straight
breath in through the nose
and out through the mouth, but do not force at all, just let the breath flow
normally
look into the center of
the Yantra, trying to blink as rarely as possible; you don't want to look
at the particular details of the Yantra, just keep your sight right in the
center and observe the whole Yantra at once
this exercise should last
at least 15-30 minutes every day; the experience will be indescribable
in time, after at least
seven days of Yantra meditation you will be able to tap into the same yantric
energy even without a Yantra (at the beginning you may fix your sight on an
exterior or imaginary point or evoke the Yantra with your eyes closed)
do not forget to consecrate
the fruits of this practice to God (karma yoga); you should not chase any
objective when doing Yantra meditation, just let it gradually guide you towards
the sublime energies of the macrocosm
when executing this techniques
it is recommended that we maintain a state of aspiration and intense longing
for experiencing the beatific energies of the consciousness
in superior phases the Yantra
absorbs the practitioner's complete attention, and he can no longer tell if
the Yantra is within himself or if he is within the Yantra; this is the state
of nonduality.
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article by Horia
Cristescu &
Dan Bozaru was
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