Sacred Tantric Yantra Art (Museum-Grade Archival Print)
Region / Tradition Shakta Tantric Tradition | Chausath Yogini Upasana | Kaula Marga | Yogini Kaula | Advanced Tantric Vidya
Key Features
This extraordinary and cosmologically complete composition presents the Chausath Yogini Yantra - the sacred geometric body of all sixty-four Tantric Yoginis, the most esoteric, most powerful, and most complete assembly of divine feminine energies in the entire Tantric sacred tradition. Among all the yantras in this entire series, this is the most visually elaborate, the most mantrically dense, and the most cosmologically comprehensive - a composition of unprecedented sacred complexity in which every ring of the yantra carries the names of specific divine feminine powers, every layer of the geometry encodes a specific aspect of the goddess's sixty-four-fold nature, and the entire composition together constitutes a complete, self-contained sacred mandala of the most advanced feminine power system in all of Tantric knowledge.
Rendered in luminous white on cosmic black with warm gold Bhupura borders and the OM symbol blazing at all four outer corners of the composition - a feature unique in the entire series - this yantra radiates the quality of a sacred space so concentrated with divine feminine presence that every direction of awareness is simultaneously held by the complete field of the sixty-four Yoginis whose names ring the composition in layer after layer of sacred text.
The Sixty-Four Yoginis - The Complete Circle of Tantric Feminine Power
The Chausath (64) Yoginis are the most esoteric and most powerful divine feminine assembly in the entire Hindu Tantric tradition. They are not merely sixty-four separate goddesses - they are sixty-four specific aspects, powers, and expressions of the single supreme feminine consciousness, organized in a sacred circle (Yogini Chakra) that constitutes the most complete map of the divine feminine's total power available in any single yantra or ritual system.
The sixty-four Yoginis belong to the Kaula Marga - the path of the sacred circle - the most advanced and most esoteric stream of the Tantric tradition, in which spiritual practice takes place within a sacred assembly (Chakra) of practitioners who together invoke the complete field of the sixty-four Yoginis and receive their direct transmission of power, knowledge, and liberation. The Chausath Yogini temples of India - the most famous at Hirapur in Odisha, Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, Morena, and Ranipur Jharial - are all built in circular form, without roofs, open to the sky, with sixty-four individual niches for each Yogini arranged in a perfect circle - the physical architecture of the yantra made into stone, the sacred circle of divine feminine power built as a living temple that the practitioner enters as the practitioner of the Yogini Chakra enters the sacred circle of the sixty-four.
The Complete Assembly of the Sixty-Four
The names inscribed across the multiple lotus rings of this yantra constitute the complete and sacred roll-call of all sixty-four Yoginis - each name a complete divine personality, a specific power, a particular aspect of the total feminine consciousness that together make up the sixty-four-fold body of the supreme goddess. The complete assembly includes:
The divine and transcendent forms - Divyayogini (the divine yogini), Mahayogini (the great yogini), Siddhayogini (the accomplished yogini), and Ganeshari (the lord of Ganas) - the elevated, light-form Yoginis who represent the goddess's transcendent, supremely refined aspects.
The fierce and transformative forms - Kali, Kalaratri, Bhairavi, Chamundi, Varahi, Chandiand Pretakshi - the powerful, protective, and world-transforming aspects of the sixty-four whose fierce energy dissolves obstacles, protects devotees, and ensures the sacred circle's boundaries remain intact and inviolable.
The subtle and mysterious forms - Dakini, Nisachari, Mohini, Karali, Pretavahini, Mantrayogini, Chakri, and Yantravahin - the more subtle, specialized, and technically precise Yoginis who govern specific domains of Tantric practice, mantra, yantra, and the subtle body.
The cosmic and elemental forms - Bhuvaneshvari, Lakshmi, Kalagni, Kausiki, Virabhadraki, Dhumrakshi - the Yoginis who embody specific cosmic functions, elemental powers, and the activities of the divine feminine at the level of cosmic governance.
The liminal and threshold forms - Urdvavetali, Bhutayamini, Pretabho, Yamaduti, Pisaci, Kharpa - the Yoginis who guard the thresholds between worlds, the boundaries between life and death, the liminal spaces where the ordinary and the sacred meet and where the most transformative spiritual experiences occur.
Each of the sixty-four names carries its own complete deity with specific iconography, mantra, weapons, attendants, and spiritual function - and all sixty-four together constitute not a random assembly but a precise, geometrically organized, cosmologically complete circle of feminine divine power whose combined presence creates a sacred field of extraordinary protective, transformative, and liberating force.
The Yantra Structure - Concentric Rings of the Sacred Circle
The visual experience of the Chausath Yogini Yantra is unlike any other in the entire series - not the geometric clarity of the Nitya yantras or the devotional directness of the deity-centered yantras but the hypnotic, depth-inducing quality of a composition that seems to spiral inward through ring after ring of sacred names, each ring carrying the names of specific Yoginis, each layer bringing the awareness closer to the supreme mantra at the center, as though the practitioner is walking the concentric circles of the Yogini Chakra temple, passing the niche of each Yogini in turn, receiving her specific blessing before moving to the next, and arriving at last at the innermost sanctum where the complete, unified power of all sixty-four is concentrated in a single sacred invocation.
The outermost container is the Bhupura with T-shaped cardinal gates on all four directions, rendered in deep black with warm gold double-line borders. At all four outer corners of the Bhupura, the OM symbol blazes in large, bold, luminous white - a unique feature in the entire series that declares the sixty-four Yoginis to be not merely a specific assembly of deities but a complete expression of the Pranava itself, the supreme source-sound of all existence manifesting as sixty-four specific divine feminine powers. The OM at each corner establishes the sacred field of the Yogini Chakra in all four directions simultaneously - the complete, unbroken enclosure of the supreme feminine circle.
Within the Bhupura, the composition unfolds as an extraordinary series of multiple concentric lotus rings - more rings than any other yantra in the entire series - each ring carrying the names of specific Yoginis in careful Devanagari script, each ring slightly smaller than the last, creating the spiraling, depth-inducing quality of a composition that seems to breathe inward through its own sacred architecture. The outermost visible rings carry the names of the outer Yoginis - the most cosmic, most expansive forms - and the rings progressively narrow and deepen, carrying increasingly intimate and powerful Yogini names, until the innermost ring opens into the central sacred space where the supreme mantra blazes.
The innermost field is the most open and most powerful space in the entire composition - a vast, dark, breathing circle of pure sacred presence within the innermost lotus ring, carrying at its absolute center the complete supreme mantra of the sixty-four in large, clear, luminously legible Devanagari:
OM Aim Klim Shrim Hsauh Chatuhshashtiyoginebhyo Namah
This is the Chausath Yogini Maha Mantra - the complete invocation of all sixty-four simultaneously, the single supreme recitation that activates the full field of the sixty-four-fold divine feminine presence in a single sustained breath. Each bija element carries its precise function in the complete invocation.
OM - the Pranava, the source sound, establishing the invocation in the absolute ground of being.
Aim - the Saraswati bija, the seed of divine knowledge and the power of sacred speech that makes the mantra's recitation itself an act of worship.
Klim - the Kali bija, the seed of absolute creative-destructive power, the supreme feminine force that activates the complete field of the sixty-four.
Shrim - the Lakshmi bija, the seed of divine abundance and auspiciousness, ensuring that the complete power of the sixty-four is directed toward the practitioner's complete flourishing.
Hsauh - the Para bija, the supreme seed of the transcendent aspect of the goddess - the bija of the sixteenth Nitya Kala that is beyond all visible lunar phases, the sound of the absolute feminine principle beyond all specific forms.
Chatuhshashtiyoginebhyo Namah - the direct, complete, unambiguous salutation to all sixty-four Yoginis simultaneously - bowing to the complete circle, acknowledging the complete assembly, and placing oneself within the protective and transformative field of their combined presence.
Philosophical and Spiritual Significance
The Chausath Yogini tradition represents the most advanced and most esoteric level of Shakta Tantric practice - the Yogini Kaula or Siddha Kaula path in which the practitioner seeks direct relationship with the sixty-four Yoginis not as external divine powers to be worshipped from a respectful distance but as living presences to be encountered, recognized, and ultimately identified with as aspects of one's own complete divine nature.
The number 64 is sacred across multiple dimensions of the Tantric universe. It is the number of the Tantras themselves - the sixty-four Tantric texts that together constitute the complete scriptural body of the Shakta tradition. It is the number of the squares of the chess board - the game of cosmic strategy that mirrors the sixty-four-fold play of consciousness in the field of manifestation. It is 8 times 8 - eight directions times eight aspects of consciousness - the complete three-dimensional field of awareness mapped in a single two-dimensional sacred circle. And it is the number of the Yoginis who together constitute the complete body of the supreme goddess in her most esoteric, most powerful, and most directly liberating form.
The circular architecture of the Chausath Yogini tradition - the roofless circular temples, the circular yantra, the circular chakra of practitioners - is the most ancient and most complete expression of the Tantric teaching that reality is not hierarchical but circular: no center more sacred than the circumference, no practitioner more exalted than any other, no Yogini more powerful than her sisters, the entire sacred circle of sixty-four equally present, equally essential, and equally the complete expression of the one goddess whose body they constitute together.
To worship the Chausath Yogini Yantra is to enter the most complete and most esoteric form of Shakta practice available - to invoke the full sixty-four-fold field of the divine feminine in a single yantra, a single mantra, and a single act of devotion that encompasses the total spectrum of feminine divine power from the most transcendent (Divyayogini) to the most fiercely earthbound (Langali), from the most luminously benevolent (Lakshmi, Bhuvaneshvari) to the most terrifyingly transformative (Kali, Kalaratri, Bhairavi).
The practitioner who establishes this yantra in their sacred space and worships it with the complete Chatuhshashtiyoginebhyo mantra is said to receive the combined blessing and protection of all sixty-four simultaneously - a protective field of such completeness and power that no negative force in the three worlds can penetrate it, a liberating field of such depth and totality that no aspect of conditioned existence remains untransformed by its presence.
Museum-Grade Poster Details
- Size: 14 × 14 inches
- Paper: 350 GSM archival matte paper
- Print Quality: High-resolution reproduction preserving all sixty-four Yogini names in the concentric ring system, the complete central mantra text clarity, the multiple lotus ring detail, the bold corner OM symbols, and the warm gold Bhupura border precision
- Finish: Non-glare museum matte finish
- Ideal For: Advanced Shakta Tantric sadhaks, Yogini Kaula practitioners, Chausath Yogini temple devotees, collectors of rare esoteric sacred art, advanced meditation spaces, Tantric research scholars, and serious practitioners of the complete Shakta tradition seeking the most esoteric and most complete Yogini yantra available
Why You'll Love It
Cosmologically total, mantrically complete, and esoterically supreme - the Chausath Yogini Yantra with all sixty-four sacred names inscribed across its concentric lotus rings, the supreme five-bija mantra blazing at the center, and the OM blazing at all four corners is the most elaborate, most esoteric, and most completely powerful yantra in the entire series, encoding the full sixty-four-fold body of the supreme goddess in a single composition of unprecedented sacred complexity and breathtaking geometric beauty.
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Bring home the Chausath Yogini Yantra - the living geometric and mantraic body of all sixty-four Tantric Yoginis whose names ring the composition like the sixty-four niches of the sacred circular temple, whose combined mantra blazes at the innermost center like the fire at the heart of the roofless shrine open to the infinite sky, and whose complete, sixty-four-fold presence transforms every sacred space they inhabit into the most ancient and most powerful temple of the divine feminine that the Tantric tradition has ever known. Available in 14 × 14 inches, with framed and unframed options, exclusively at The Soma Store.
