Yantra solutiondifficulties

November 1, 2026

A short description for a long season

Its whole stated purpose fits in a single sentence, and that brevity is itself informative. It suggests a figure whose use is direct, whose situation is familiar, and whose description needs no elaboration because the people who sought it already knew what difficulties meant in their own lives. This article expands that short sentence into a fuller discussion, without adding to the purpose itself, so that a modern reader can work with it as deliberately as its first users did.

The old description, in full, is this. If this figure is engraved on a copper plate and worn on the body, it works to remove difficulties. I state that as the traditional purpose of the figure, not as a promise about what will happen for you. Difficulties, in that short sentence, is left general, and that generality is worth examining, because a general word can hide many different kinds of trouble, each of which is removed, and observed, in a different way.

What difficulties means, in practice

Difficulties can be practical: money short, transport failed, paperwork stalled, a repair that will not hold. They can be relational: a person who will not agree, a misunderstanding that will not clear, a promise that keeps being broken. They can be inner: doubt after repeated setbacks, weariness that makes the next task feel heavier than it is, a loss of momentum that turns small obstacles into large ones. A season of difficulties often contains all three kinds at once, and that mixture is part of what makes it feel overwhelming, because no single solution addresses the whole mixture.

It is worth comparing this figure with the longer description of a related figure for removing difficulties, which pairs removal with the realisation of hopes and with willingness to work for change. That longer description is not this figure's description, and it is not imported here as if it were. It is mentioned only to show that, in this tradition, removal of difficulties is generally understood as part of a turning: obstacles clearing, and something hoped for coming forward in the space they leave. For this figure, the stated purpose is removal alone, and the article stays within that stated purpose, while noting that a cleared space is usually noticed by what can then move forward in it.

Being specific about the difficulties you mean

Specificity here means turning the general word into a list from your own life. One person might mean a cluster of practical difficulties: a bill that cannot be met, a vehicle that keeps failing, and an application that has stalled for want of a single document. Another might mean a relational difficulty that colours everything else: a quarrel unresolved, a negotiation blocked, a family decision that cannot be reached. A third might mean an inner difficulty: a project begun with energy and then abandoned after the first setbacks, now sitting unfinished and reproachful.

Write that list before you begin, briefly, and beside each item write what removal would look like in ordinary terms: the bill paid, the vehicle running, the document found, the quarrel eased, the project resumed. Those ordinary pictures are your measures. Without them, the general word difficulties can remain a feeling, and feelings, however real, are poor instruments for judging change. With them, you can watch the list item by item, and know whether the season is clearing, holding, or merely shifting its difficulties from one place to another.

Working with the figure

The figure is described as engraved on a copper plate and worn on the body. Worn in that way, it is present through the ordinary round in which difficulties appear: the errand, the appointment, the conversation, the task attempted and set aside. Hold it before you put it on, settle the list you wrote, and then wear it through those ordinary days, rather than reserving it for a single ceremony apart from daily life. Difficulties live in daily life, so the working belongs there too, and the wearing matches that daily quality.

Approach the list, while wearing the figure, one item at a time, rather than as a single overwhelming mass. Deal with the document, then the call, then the repair, then the conversation, in turn, and note each one as it is addressed. That separation is itself part of removal, because difficulties gain much of their weight from being lumped together. Taken singly, they are often manageable, and manageability is the first form easing takes, even before any item is fully removed.

The ordinary-world work alongside it

The ordinary work of removing difficulties is mostly a matter of order and of small steps. Break a tangle into its parts, and take the smallest part first, the one that can be done today without anyone else's permission. Write the letter, make the call, find the document, ask the plain question. Each small step, completed, changes the shape of the tangle, and it also changes your own state, from a person beset by difficulties to a person working through them. That change of state is not incidental. It often allows the next step to be seen clearly.

Seek help where a difficulty is not yours to solve alone. Advice, practical assistance, mediation, or simply another person's view of a tangle you have stared at too long, can remove an obstruction that effort alone has only tightened. Asking for help is not a sign that the magical work has failed. It is part of the same removal, and a working accompanied by asking tends to read, in the record, very differently from one accompanied only by waiting.

Keeping a record, and reading it honestly

Keep a record of the list, and update it honestly. Note each difficulty, what was done about it, and whether it eased, shifted, or held firm. Note the new difficulties that arrived while old ones were being addressed, because a season of difficulties rarely stands still, and a record that only tracks the first list will miss the replacements. Note, too, the inner weather: weariness, momentum, the ability to face the next task without dread, because inner easing is part of removal even when outer items still stand.

Read the record after a stretch of ordinary weeks, not after a single good day or a single bad one. Removal, in the way described, is a gradual clearing, not a sudden lifting, and it is judged by the trend across the list. If the list shortens, even slowly, weigh that plainly. If it merely changes its items, consider whether a different practical step, a different kind of help, or a reframing of the list itself is needed. No magical result is promised here.

One last distinction belongs in the record, and it is between difficulties removed and difficulties outgrown. Some items on the list may cease to matter, not because they were solved, but because life moved past them: a plan abandoned for a better one, a quarrel rendered irrelevant by changed circumstances, a project set aside deliberately rather than by failure. Those are not failures of the record. They are a form of clearing, and noting them as such keeps the record honest about how seasons actually turn, which is rarely by solution alone.

There is a further question worth asking when the list seems to clear only slowly, and it is whether the difficulties themselves have been correctly named. A difficulty described as lack of money may, on closer inspection, be a difficulty of timing, of a single unpaid sum, or of a habit that repeatedly creates the same shortfall. A difficulty described as a difficult person may, on closer inspection, be a difficulty of communication, of an unspoken expectation, or of a decision that has been avoided. Renaming a difficulty more precisely does not solve it by itself, but it often reveals a step that was invisible under the vaguer name, and that step is sometimes the removal itself.

Size and material: Copper Yantras are about 1 inch by 1 inch by 2 millimetres, and hand-drawn Yantras are around 2 inches by 2 inches. These sizes are approximate, because Yantras come in different shapes.