✦ Mahalakshmi Yantra ✦
✦ Comprehensive grace-yantra of the Eight Lakshmis ✦
✦ What is Mahalakshmi Yantra? ✦
Mahalakshmi Yantra — the principal yantra for worshipping Sri Mahalakshmi. Mahalakshmi is the consort of Vishnu, goddess of wealth, food-grain, prosperity, and beauty, representing the sustaining power of the universe.
Mahalakshmi manifests in eight forms — Adi, Dhana, Dhanya, Gaja, Santana, Veera, Vijaya, and Vidya Lakshmi. This yantra is the combined reservoir of all these forms' power.
Friday is Mahalakshmi's day. Worshipping this yantra on Diwali is supreme. Installation grants inexhaustible wealth and grain, fortune, prosperity, progeny, and all material and spiritual joys.
✦ Geometric Form ✦
Center: bindu and "Shreem" bija — 8-petal lotus inscribed with the Ashta Lakshmis — triangle cluster — 16-petal lotus — circle — bhupura. Each petal carries a bija mantra of one Lakshmi form. The eight directions hold the eight riddhi-siddhis.
✦ Presiding Deity ✦
Sri Mahalakshmi — consort of Vishnu, sustaining power of the cosmos, manifest in eight forms. Adi-shakti who emerged from the churning of the ocean.
✦ Mantra ✦
ॐ श्रीं महालक्ष्म्यै नमः
Om Shreem Mahalakshmyai Namah
Meaning: Salutations to Goddess Mahalakshmi — bestower of total prosperity.
Recommended count: 108 times
ॐ ह्रीं श्रीं क्लीं महालक्ष्म्यै कमलवासिन्यै स्वाहा
Om Hreem Shreem Kleem Mahalakshmyai Kamalavasinyai Svaha
Meaning: Mahalakshmi seated upon the lotus — grant me unending prosperity.
Recommended count: 108 times
✦ Benefits & Blessings ✦
✦ Installation Rules ✦
Material
Gold leaf (best), silver, ashtadhatu, lotus petal, or bhojpatra inscribed with roli-saffron.
Direction
North or east wall of puja room. Yantra faces east-north. Sadhak faces north while worshipping.
Best Time
Diwali night (Amavasya), Friday evening pradosh kaal, Vaishakha Shukla Purnima, Akshay Tritiya, Dhanteras.