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The Sri Yantra also called Sri Chakra is a beautiful and complex sacred geometry used for worship, devotion and meditation. The diagram called navayoni Chakra, because it is formed by nine triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point. Four isosceles triangles with the apices upwards, represent Shiva or the Masculine. Five isosceles triangles with the apices downward, symbolize female embodiment Shakti.
Nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles.
The central triangle is the central lens of the Sri Yantra. All 9 triangles, should be in perfectly balanced configuration. Another measure of overall balance of a structure is the center of mass. Bindu is the point in the geometry where it would balance if it was a solid object.
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nav chakra or because it can also be seen as having nine levels:
1) an earth square;
2) a sixteen-petal lotus;
3) an eight-petal lotus;
4) fourteen triangles;
5) ten triangles;
6) ten triangles;
7) eight triangles;
8) one triangle;
9) a point or bindu.
There a many variations of the Sri Yantra. There are many different methods to draw it.
There are three main forms of the Sri Yantra: Plane, pyramidal, spherical