The meaning of Mandala.

                                                      What is  Mandala?

 

   Mandala is a geometric symbol with a complicated structure and interprets as a model of the universe and a map of the inner world at the same time. Mandala symbolizes the hidden connection between the micro and the macro of our existence.

 

   Mandala creation started already in ancient times and still can be found in different cultures today. Be it the Tibetans which paint mandalas with colorful powders, colored seeds or in the sand as a powerful meditative tool. Or, the East Indians which paint it on fabrics, floors, walls and ceilings of homes and temples as a symbol of the deity's residing place. The Huichol Indians of Central America use to weave mandalas of colorful yarn treads as a talisman for protection and blessing, for healing and as a ritual tool. They call it Ojo de Dios - Eye of God.

 

   The term mandala originally came from the Sanskrit word manas which means mind, while the full Sanskrit word mandala means center, circle, disk, wheel, sphere, world, system, integrity, unity... All meanings combined, mandala is a symbol of the Creation, a mirror of the Divine mind and world's vision.

 

   Mandala’s language consists of colors and geometric forms which bare symbolic meanings and psychological influences.

The weaver breathes life into the mandala with his mood and intention, and can gain high levels of concentration and deep

self-understanding. Therefore mandala can also be used for the diagnostics of one’s psychological state. In different cultures the mandala weaving process itself is considered to be a way of meditation, introspection, self-understanding, and finding one’s own inner center. Well-known Swiss phychiatrist Carl Jung inspected and daily drew mandalas. One of methods in his psychotherapy was the search for the interpretation of individual mandalas created by his patients. Carl Jung discovered that the development of personality - if to imagine it graphically - goes not somewhere forward or upward as a vector, but gyres back to the center, to the sourse. In his writings he referred to mandala as: "the psychological expression of the totality of the self."