Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.231

c2.231

If material yantras did not take root or multiply, spiritual yantras, which took one to still higher regions, developed and multiplied on a vast scale. And even writers who actually dealt with the yantras, like Somadeva and Bhoja, saw in the machine operated by an agent an appropriate analogy for the mundane body and senses presided over by the Soul, and for the wonderful mechanism of the universe, with its constituent elements and planetary systems,⁴⁰ requiring a divine master to keep it in constant revolution.