Yantram and Srichakra

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The following notes were written especially for Dr. H. Jacobs- a German Doctor of Psychoanalysis and Psycho-therapy, a man versed in the sciences, a deep student of Metaphysics and Mysticism, especially Indian, both theoretical and practical. In one of his several meetings with Swamiji, he called his attention to a well-known Yantram or Mystic Diagram, viz. the Shat Kona (interlaced triangle) and asked for his interpretation of this. Swamiji's interpretation is, apparently, un- orthodox, and sweeps over a wide range the problems - and one might add, riddles of creation, and our own vital reactions thereto. The matters dealt with in these Notes are abstruse and technical, and require a close, specialised study. The rational synthetic approach herein to mystic problems and their practical bearings was appreciated by Dr.Jacobs, and also by an American Professor of the Philosophy of Science to whom the Notes were given for perusal. Our hope in publishing these Notes is that other competent interested readers may also share their view.

Yantram or the Mystic Diagram plays an important role in mystic doctrine and practice everywhere. The one examined in these Notes is typical; to study it is to study the basic factor of the creative process and our progress along what here has been called 'the home line'.

If this publication should receive the measure of attention that the importance of the matter dealt with deserves, other publications on Mantram, Tantram, Kundalini, Ardha Matra, and so on, may, it is hoped, follow.

YANTRAM-What it means?

YANTRAM, in ordinary use, means a mechanism or organ for doing work in an effective, systematised manner with a view to achieving a definite end. Such work, evidently, implies three things: the End, setting the principle or rule of action; the Means, setting the combination and co-ordination of the forces doing the work; and the Method, setting the necessary conditions and practical lines of such action. In scientific analysis, the first gives formula and equation; the second, diagram and design; the third, function according to plan, and with respect to given or assigned conditions. Basically speaking, these three are Mantram, Yantram and Tantram respectively. One may call them Rule, Ruler and Ruling; or Principles of Law, Code and Procedure; and so on. With respect to anything that is or becomes, they answer the three root questions: Why is it so? What makes it so? And, how is it so? Obviously, the three are inter-related.

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