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Literacy In Nine Days Only (LINDO)
 
Mandala approach to literacy
 
Mandala or Yantra is a symbolic depiction of the manifest and non-manifestrealities in the universe. People in India and elsewhere have been practicingdifferent techniques of meditations for thousands of years on the Shri Yantra(Shri Vidya Mandala). It is also considered to be the abode of the Divine
Mother or the Goddess of Supreme Knowledge (Shri Vidya). Shri Yantra’s
beauty, complex design and geometry has always amazed and puzzled theartists, mystics and scientists.
 
Shri Yantra contains the mysteries of the origin and evolution of language andknowledge. It is the abode of the Supreme Intelligence and incorporates thecode of phonetic alphabet.
 
The inner part of Shri Yantra has four triangles with apexes upwards and fivetriangles with apexes downwards. Intersection of lines of the nine triangles arecalled Chakras (circles) although they appear as hexagons. These hexagonsconstitute the base of 42 blue triangles called Shiva or consciousness areas.There is one more blue triangle inside the smallest hexagon. Other 46 areasare called Shakti or energy areas and are colored pink. When hexagons areconverted into circles, the total number of blue and pink areas remains 89 (43blue and 46 pink). The inner part of Shri Yantra may be depicted as aMandala or Yantra as follows:
 
 
We may consider this mandala as a flower of writing symbols or script.Learning to read and write the writing symbols would be to arrange the petalsof the flower in a tray (tray=yellow; blue petals=43; pink petals=46; rows of
petals=9 including the central circle’s petals)
. Each petal is assigned a writingsymbol and the 9 rows are arranged in 9 steps or 9 lessons for teaching thescript. We will call the circular petals as chakras and the full form of flower in atray like frame as Alphabet Yantra.The empty tray on which writing symbols in the form of petals of the flower areto be arranged, is as follows:
 
The 9 lessons (paat'ha) or steps for learning Romanaagarii or Saral Romanscript can be covered in 9 days.
 
Day-1
 
(Basic vowels)
 
Writing symbols:
 
a aa i iiAlphabet Yantra or flower after Day-1
 
There is no vowel base in Romanaagarii. In Saral Roman the vowel base isinvisible.
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