Writings on Divine mother..........Sai Maa

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mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> The kind of symbolism by

which the various aspects of the divine governance of the world are represented

by means of deities with their apprpriate lokas ,vahanas ayudhas etc. , is , of

course ,very common in our Puranas; and our sculptural and pictorial arts are

mainly based on it . sometime it is simply symbolism run mad . The Tantra as we

have seen ,adopts the same method for representing the governance of the inner

world of man and indicating the various psychological levels to be reached in

his progress towards God . It goes further and employs diagrams called Yantras

for representing these Sakthis . It is but appropriate that a Sakthi which is

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the nature of force or energy ,should be represented by lines and curves and

their combinations . For surely a diagram consisting of mere lines and points

is a more spiritual symbol of divinity than an anthropomorphic image of it in

the round or a picture of it in colors . That is why the Tantras regards

yantropasana as being superior to the older pratikopasana . And the greatest of

all yantras ,according to it ,is the famous Sri Cakra ,which is the central

object of worship in Sri Vidya .