Excerpt from the YOGINI HRIDAYA.
"Shakti is fivefold and refers to creation, while Shiva is fourfold and related to dissolution. The union of the five shaktis and the four fires creates the chakra, that is the Shri Yantra. Shiva and Shakti are Fire and Moon bindus and the contact of both causes the Hardhakala to flow, which becomes the third bindu, Sun, and which gives rise to the Baindava or first chakra. It is this first chakra, the bindu at the centre of the yantra, which gives rise to the nine triangles or navayoni, and these, in turn, cause the nine mandalas of the yantra to blossom. This Baindava or central bindu, is Shiva and Shakti, also referred to in the texts as the light and its mirror.
The ultimate Shakti, by her own will (svecchaya) assumed the form of the universe, first as a pulsating essence, consisting of the vowels of the alphabet. The bindu of the yantra corresponds to dharma, adharma and atma, which also corresponds to matri, meya and prama. The bindu is situated on a dense, flowering mass of lotus, and is self-aware consciousness, the Chitkala. The quivering union of Shiva and Shakti gradually creates the different mandalas of the Shri Yantra, which correspond to different letters of the Sanskrit alphabet.
Kamakala subsists in the Mahabindu (great bindu) and is without parts. The text refers to nine different and successively subtle forms of sound which are beyond the vowels and consonants of the 50 (51) letters of the alphabet.
She is every kind of Shakti, including Iccha (will), Jnana (knowledge) and Kriya (action), and exists as four pithas or sacred centres, represented by the letters Ka(marupa), Pu(rnagiri), Ja(landhara) and Od(ddiya). These seats exist in the microcosm between anus and genitals, at the heart, in the head, and in the bindu above the head, and have the forms of square, hexagon in a circle with a bindu, a crescent moon and a triangle, and are of the colours yellow, purple, white and red.
These also correspond to three lingams, which are known as Svayambhu, Bana, Itara and Para, which are situated in the pithas and are coloured gold, bhanduka red, and like the autumn moon.
The vowels, which are divided into three, are situated in the svayambhu lingam, the letters Ka to Ta are associated with the bana lingam, the letters Tha to Sa are in the kadamba region, while the entire circle of the letters, the matrika, are associated with the para or supreme lingam, which is one with the essence of the bindu of the yantra, and is the root of the tree of supreme bliss.
These different elements of speech, which are the kulakaula, are also the sections of the mantra. Further, these sections correspond to the waking state, to dream, to deep sleep and to the turiya or fourth. Beyond this is the absolute supreme which by its own will emanates the cosmos and is also one with the cosmos, the union of measure, measurer and the measured, the triple peaks, and the very self of Iccha, Jnana and Kriya shaktis. The universe has the appearance of emanating from the unmanifest Kameshvara and Kameshvari.
The noose which Tripurasundari holds is Iccha, the goad is Jnana, and the bow and arrows are Kriya shakti, says Bhairava. By the blending of the refuge (Shiva-Kameshvara) and Shri (Shakti-Kameshvari), the eight other mandalas of the Shri Yantra come into creation.
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