Yantra to have obedience by others

November 1, 2026

Beginning with one situation, not with a general wish

Obedience is a blunt word, and it is worth pausing over before you use it as an aim. In ordinary life it can mean many different things: that instructions are followed, that a household runs without constant argument, that people under your charge do what is asked, or that a group accepts direction instead of pulling apart. This yantra states its purpose in that blunt form, and the work begins by saying which of those meanings you actually mean, in which relationship, and for what end.

What this yantra is for

The stated purpose of this yantra is to have obedience by others. The source describes it as one of the numbered yantras, requiring you, the person who uses it, to perform mantra recitation and puja to empower it for this purpose. The article describes that traditional purpose neutrally, as the source states it. Obedience, as a purpose, is relational: it always involves particular people, a particular kind of direction, and a particular situation in which direction is given and either followed or resisted. Your recitation and puja are the part the source asks of you, and the purpose you hold during them is obedience by others, stated as plainly as the source states it.

What a yantra is, in brief

The word yantra itself, in the source, means a machine, an apparatus, or a device. It can also be described as something that fastens, or is fastened, such as a concept or a specific energy pattern. The human body itself is called a yantra in this teaching, and drawn, written, or sculpted yantras are often understood as the mystical bodies of divinities. Yantras often contain numbers, syllables, and words from various formulas that carry specific energies, and that is why the purpose is not an afterthought. The pattern is made for something, and the work is to hold that something clearly while you empower it.

Being specific about this purpose

Specificity here is not optional, because obedience in general could mean almost anything, and a purpose that means anything will show you nothing.

A vague aim sounds like this: I want people to obey me. A specific aim sounds like this: I want the staff I supervise to follow the safety procedure I have set, without it needing to be repeated three times each shift.

A vague aim sounds like this: I want obedience at home. A specific aim names the household and the matter: that children follow the agreed evening routine, or that a shared task is done when it was promised.

A vague aim sounds like this: I want respect for my authority. A specific aim names the decision: that a direction you give about a project is carried out rather than quietly set aside.

A vague aim sounds like this: I want no more argument. A specific aim separates the argument from the direction: whether you want agreement, or simply compliance with a decision you are responsible for making.

Read the four examples above against your own situation and keep the one that fits most closely. A purpose stated in that form can be remembered, returned to, and tested. A purpose stated only as a feeling cannot.

Your part: recitation and puja

The source is explicit that this is a yantra which requires you, the person who uses it, to perform mantra recitation and puja to empower it. That means the empowerment is not done for you at a distance and then forgotten. It is your practice, in the tradition you follow, with whatever guidance your teacher or your own established practice gives you. No mantra and no ritual wording is supplied in this article, because none is supplied in the source, and inventing wording for a practice you may already follow would be presumptuous as well as inaccurate. Use the recitation and puja you already know, hold the stated purpose clearly while you do them, and do not treat the article itself as a ritual manual.

The ordinary work alongside it

The ordinary work of being obeyed is clarity and consistency. Give directions that are clear, reasonable, and possible to follow, and give them once, plainly, rather than repeating them with rising irritation. Follow through when a direction is ignored, and keep your own side of the arrangement, because people stop obeying directions from someone whose own conduct contradicts them. If you hold authority in a workplace or a household, the structure around you, the rules, the routines, and the consequences, does as much work as any single instruction. The yantra work sits alongside that conduct, and it does not replace the need to give a direction well.

Keeping a record, and observing what changes

Obedience can be observed directly, which makes a record here unusually useful, provided it stays factual.

Note the direction given, to whom, and when, in one sentence, before you judge the outcome.

Note what actually happened: whether it was done, done late, done partly, or not done, without adding a story about motive.

Note whether the same direction needs repeating, and how often, since a direction that must always be repeated is not yet established.

Note your own consistency: whether you gave the direction clearly, and whether you followed through, because obedience is a two-sided record.

Review the record after a month, not after a single day, and ask what it actually shows. A record kept in this way protects you from two opposite errors: claiming a result that never happened, and missing a slow change because you expected a sudden one.

Questions to sit with before you begin

Ask yourself what kind of obedience you are actually seeking, and whether the people concerned owe it, or whether you are asking for something they have never agreed to give. A direction given by someone with real responsibility, in a workplace or a household, is different from a direction given where no such responsibility exists, and the working will read differently in each case. Ask also whether your directions are worth obeying: clear, fair, and possible, or vague, shifting, and contradicted by your own conduct. And ask what you will do if obedience comes without agreement, since compliance without understanding is brittle, and a household or workplace held together only by compliance will need the direction repeated forever. Those questions do not weaken the purpose; they give it a shape that can actually be observed.

No promise, and how to read a quiet result

No result is guaranteed by this work, and that must be said plainly rather than softened into a promise. A yantra is a traditional instrument for a stated purpose, empowered by your own recitation and puja, and what follows from it is yours to observe, not the writer's to guarantee. That statement is about magical result, not about delivery of a physical item. If a working shows nothing, that is not a failure of honesty to admit. It is the beginning of a better question: whether the purpose was specific enough, whether the ordinary work alongside it was done, or whether a different approach is needed.

If obedience does not follow, the record will show whether the direction was unclear, the relationship was already strained, or the purpose itself was too broad to be carried out in any one situation.

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.