Yantra is a Sanskrit word meaning to sustain, hold or subdue, to restrain, curb, check and support the energy inherent in consciousness. It is a path or technique represented as a particular sacred geometrical symbol, element, object or concept, process, automata, piece of machinery or anything that has harmonious structure and organization. In technical terms, Yantra means an instrument, an apparatus, a talisman or geometrical transcendental diagrams. Also, it may refer to any kind of mechanical contrivance which is harnessed to aid an enterprise. By following certain techniques, and instructions, together with sound (Mantra), Mudra (Body) and Pranayama (Breath) one can attain “siddhi" or Enlightenment.

"Shastras" a collection of ancient Hindu scriptures, know as a book of knowledge, that provide guidance and teachings on various aspects of life, have held the power of Yantra in high esteem as an effective tool in the path towards inner realizations.

The yantra is essentially a geometric compositing, but to understand its deeper nature and broader meaning, our view of geometry must yield to those of spirited energetics and of passive dynamics.

Throughout history, the yantra has been used as a sort of machine or instrument in architecture, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, warfare and recreation. In a spiritual context, the yantra has been used as an experiential geometrical tool intended for meditation and to increase consciousness; functioning as revelatory conduits of ultimate truth, holding the energetic signatures of the consciousness. It provides the balanced, gross forms which evoke the subtle formless energy of inner vision.

We are all a spiritual travellers whose main aim is to intuit the union of the One. We clime to the summit, whether we rest and pause for a while, whether we stumbles on the path of or turn away, we all inevitably go back to the same point we started our journey. The All-point is the beginning, the origin and the end of our existence and all existence.

Awakening one point in our being implies collecting all energies of our being into a single creative point and integrating and harmonizing its expansion into totality. The goal of yantra is ultimate transformation of our forgotten point, the one point in our being, and reunion with the wholeness.

The principle behind the use of the yantra is basic to tantric tradition, so each yantra as a visual pattern together with mantra-sound syllable reciprocally encloses its own unique power-pattern. In addition to its mathematical perfection, the yantra has the universal appeal of archetypes. In almost all religions, yantra forms appears and operates, at some degrees, as a symbol of cosmic mystery, like triangles, spirals, crosses, circles, flower of life..., through which devotees can rediscover his or her primeval consciousness.

‘Who am I’ is the primal question around meditation with Yantra. This very fundamental and existential question involves the totality of our existence in all its depth and heights or our being. This question around Yantra will take you to the very beginning of everything, represented as the one point in the middle of Yantra, the primeval beginning. The profoundness of this question is eternal, and so is its journey equally profound and eternal.

Yantra is a representation of All That Is, and as the external image is used in meditation or worship to symbolize or express certain divine principles, ideas and qualities; to point and guide one through the process of witnessing that leads to eventual remembering ONESELF.

Yantra is a key element of Tantra, representing the constant flow and interaction of both divine and human energy or energy frequency impulses of the universe. It mediates between the "transcendent-yet- immanent" macrocosm and the microcosm,  of human and divine experience.