Sri Yantra

[1] The Sri Yantra holds great significance in the Shri Vidya school, central to its worship.

The power point (bindu) stands as the cosmic center, encompassed by concentric circles with lotus petal patterns denoting creation and life force.

The triangles are circumscribed by two concentric circles composed of 8 and 16 petals, representing the lotus of creation and reproductive vital force.

The entire configuration is framed by the broken lines of an earth square, representing a temple with four doors open onto the regions of the universe.

In the middle is the power point (bindu), visualizing the highest, the invisible, elusive centre from which the entire figure and the cosmos expand.

The 12 and 15 sides of the four upward and five downward triangles also correspondingly symbolise, on the physical plane, the 12 sidereal zodiac signs of the Sun and 15 'nityas' phase-signs of the Moon.

[8] The Sri Yantra is at the heart of Shri Vidya practice, representing the geometric manifestation of the formless Tripurasundari.

[10] Together, the Yantra and Mantra serve as the central tools for connecting with and realizing the supreme goddess in Shri Vidya.