Grown Lotus Sri Yantra

[TensorTympani]

Here are some sri yantras for you enjoyment. The novelty is that the sri yantras can grow their own petals!

For comparison, this sri yantra uses straight triangle sides, so the petals outside the yellow circle are added by hand.

This is similar to Yogani’s hand-drawn versions, and to most sri yantra drawings one can find on the internet.

But there are also traditional curved-line sri yantras. Particularly this one in the Chintamani Shiva temple I find intriguing and in some ways more pleasant looking. Notice that all tips of the yantra touch the circle thanks to the curvature of the triangle sides. This produces a petal-like effect of the yantra itself.

Here is a version of a circular arc sri yantra that gets close to what I see in the Chintamani Shiva temple one.

So far, nothing qualtitatively new. The novelity comes when the arcs defining the sri yantra are naturally extended outside of the yantra’s circumference. These extended arcs will intersect outside the yantra to form petals. So, the two yantras below grow their own petals without the need to add them by hand! However, the grown petals of most curved yantras, including the above one, look very irregular. To make the petals look somewhat regular, both yantras below have the tips of one row of the grown petals constrained to the touch a larger circle.

Lotus sri yantra with 1st ring of grown petals on a circle.

Lotus sri yantra with 2nd ring of grown petals on a circle.

On first glance the grown petals are somewhat similar to the hand-drawn two rings of petals. As far as I know, such grown lotus sri yantras have never been drawn before, and their effect when meditated upon might be different.

If you want to explore these yantras yourself, fine-tune their shape and color, check out this viewer. You can also export just the lines as vectors if you want to color the yantra yourself or print it on a large canvas.

The viewer uses an exact construction method that was vibe coded with an AI. For the straight yantra we used existing literature, but for the curved cases the AI came up with a novel method by itself. I always wanted a sri yantra viewer like this. And now it exists thanks to AI.

[TensorTympani]

Here is are two more, that extend the yantra inside the circle rather than outside. So instead of the four up and five down facing triangles, there are five up and six down. In the coloring style used here this gives rise to a new ring of small outward-facing triangles around the original yantra. There are 64 of such extended yantras, but I found only two of them pleasant looking. Their construction also uses arcs instead of straight lines, since otherwise this extension would be impossible.

Extended sri yantra with 2 triangles on each up and down side

Extended sri yantra with 3 triangles on each up and down side

[SeySorciere]

I am not sure what you are going on about here, Tensor but perhaps you would appreciate reaction to the them.
The normal straight triangle ones - neutral reaction
The circular arc - generates immediate warmth and pleasantness
Lotus 1st ring - the start of discordance
Lotus 2nd ring - headache kicks in
The other two are less unpleasant than the petal ones.

I am not meditating on them, just my immediate reaction to them. Strange, eh?

Sey

[TensorTympani]

Hi Sey,

Thanks for your feedback. It is interesting how strongly this yantra can affect people. I once showed a friend (who has been doing spiritual practices for many years) the traditional straight version on a retreat, and he started sweating pretty much immediately after gazing at it for a few seconds, which he didn’t perceive as pleasant at all.

I think how pleasant the curved yantras look also depends on the coloring scheme used. I would not be able to comfortably meditate on any of the ones I posted above. That’s why I posted them in “Art” forum rather than “Other systems of Yoga” forum.

I personally enjoy meditating/gazing on the Lotus 1st and 2nd ring in the form below. Exactly the same yantras as above but less emphasis on separating out the small triangles and the circles. The effect is very different on me. In a dark room (no bright lights) I put it full screen on my computer monitor and dial the brightness of the display down to a comfortable level. Then a lot of visual scenery happens after a short while and I find myself relaxing. I don’t advocate yantra gazing as a regular practice, since I don’t know the long term effects. But given the short term effects I would expect something is happening. So should anybody actually use the yantras for meditation, apply prudent self-pacing.

Lotus sri yantra with 1st ring on circle

Lotus sri yantra with 2nd ring on circle