Our minds are endlessly magnetized and dispersed outward, towards people, places, and things outside of ourselves. If the power of this outward pull is left unattended for years or decades, we suffer the consequences of a mind that has lost its link to its wellspring. This disconnect can cause us to grow easily agitated, irritable, or find that no matter how hard we try, we cannot focus. What manifests from such a state is an undercurrent of desire for connection and fulfillment that won’t be satiated by external means. To mitigate the dis-ease of our conditioned minds, we’d benefit from finding a way to curb the mind’s roaming tendency, reverse its direction back inwards. This is, in part, what meditation aims to do.
Buried a little deeper in the tradition of meditation is a tool that, when put to use, can usher the mind back toward the luminosity and light of its own knowing. This tool is called a yantra, and there may be no better gateway than the sacred technology of the Sri Yantra to galvanize our collective attention towards the sixth chakra. Beyond the proverbial monkey mind, and even beyond the intellect, is the frequency of consciousness the yogic tradition calls cosmic intelligence. Direct the mind there, direct our awareness there, and we touch the true nature of our being. In doing so, we reunite with our essence.
