Jantra (Eastern religions)

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Sri jantra

Jantra (Devanagari: यन्त्र) - Sanskrit term; literally meaning an instrument, a machine or a workshop, in particular a weaving workshop, are ritual diagrams that are common in Hinduism and tantrism, serve as meditations, or perform initiating functions.

Jantra is a representation of the divine element and can be treated as a physical expression of the mantra: the mantra represents the divine element in the form of sound, the jantra in the geometric form of the figure. The jantra is always geometric in contrast to the mandala, which may also contain iconographic elements. There are also florist motifs. There is a view that jantra contains a mandala. The significance of the jantra are the aspects of divinity, the representation of the universe as well as the map of consciousness. In the practice of meditation, the jantra and mantra are complementary. A special type of jantra is the so-called. Sri jantra formed from 9 triangles and bindu. The four triangles pointing upwards represent the male aspect, the god Shiva, and the five facing down represents the female aspect, the goddess Shakti.

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