Sri Yantra

Searching images for ‘Sri Yantra’ in Google brought me to the experiment below where the yantra is projected into three dimensions. The Sri Yantra can be used to meditate upon. The small dot and focal point in the centre is named bindu.
The transverse triangles represent the volume expansion of bindu, the emergence of 3-D space, of the original nature, of creation.
This experiment with the 3-D yantra is a beautifull illustration of an article I stumbled upon last summer. I thought to put them together here:

“The universe was not there in the beginning. Or if it were there, what had then become of it? One view is that it had shrunk to a bindu. Bindu means point. The universe had contracted to a point. That is just it’s way, now it contracts; now it expands. It is a perpetual cycle stretched over bilions of human years. Expansion is creation and contraction is dissolution.

In geometry a point has position but no dimensions. The position of a thing is in relation to other things in space. Since bindu is the is the contraction of the whole universe, of the whole time-space-mind continuum, it can have no position. Since it has no dimension, and since it is the contraction of time-space-mind, the mind just cannot grasp it. For a three dimensional mind to grasp a thing, that thing has to be three dimensional too. For the mind a thing without dimensions doesn’t exist at all. that’s why the bindu is beyond comprehension and equal to nothing.

For the bindu to burst into being again, to stretch out it’s withdrawn dimensions and thus expand again it needs a bang-start. The form of this bang-start comes from desire. The bindu desired to expand again, to burst into being again, to be manifest and to multiply. Desire heated it up to a fireball bursting with desire. At the extreme height of heat and pressure it just exploded. This explosion of bindu is called Bindu Vishphota. The explosion stretched forth, well outside it’s withdrawn dimensions. It startes to expand. It ceased to be nothing. It bounced back into being.

The present 3-D space is the volume of expansion of bindu. This volume is called Saguna Brahm (dimensioned Brahmn). This Saguna Brahmn is the 3D-isation of Nirguna Brahm (dimensionless Brahmn) that is the original bindu. Saguna Brahmn and Moola Prakriti (the original nature) are one and the same.

All that occupies the 3-D space is it’s own local temporary warps. By warping itself Nature creates all. The triangles with their vertices represent the expansion of bindu- the emergence of 3D space of moola prakriti, of creation. What expands Bindu into volume is its Brimhita bang, represented by the space enclosed by the tranversed triangles and surounding bindu. ”

Original text by K.M. Gupta in the Times of India someday last summer.
Images found with Google.