KUBERA (Jambhala)
Bodhisattva of Abundance

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Kubera guards the north face of Mount Meru, which symbolizes the center of the world. He is one of 8 generals that accompany Vaishravana to guard Mt. Meru, which, as is so often in Tibeten iconography, also the symbol for your spine and spinal health.

He is dressed in Chinese warrior clothes, as the Chinese were the people from the north. He holds a mongoose in his left hand and jewels spill out of its mouth, giving riches to all. Daily meditation on his yantra helps the mind transform thought-forms, gently guiding us into habits of prosperity, helping us shift your mindset from a poverty type of mentality to a way of thinking positively and abundantly about money and all the other richness that life can hold. This applies not only to material things, but also with the concept of time.

Kubera rejoices in the merits of others and is the patron of aesthetic appreciation and artistic creation, knowing that dwelling on beautiful works of art refines us.

He is also connected to ecology and the environment, and the fertility of the land. He is associated with what is called a “Magic Square”, and worship is often done to a drawing of the Magic Square rather than an image of him. Magic squares are numerical arrangements constructed in a square grid where the numbers in each line in the grid add up to the same sum- magic! They have been known about in all cultures for thousands of years, for instance Albrecht Dürer drew one in the corner of his etching “Melancholia”. In this painting Kubera’s magic square is placed in the breastplate of his horse.

Kubera is called a "duel-energy deity" - he is associated with the blending of male and female energies.
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© Laura Santi

♥ A WORD ABOUT ARCHIVAL GICLÉE PRINTS : The giclée prints I sell of my original artworks look and feel like paintings and don't loose definition as they are enlarged . Artwork is scanned via what looks like a really big "camera"/computer and then printed with a sophisticated inkjet printer, which is 5 feet wide, onto artists' archival heavyweight watercolor paper. It takes about 10 minutes to print a 24"x36". This makes the most crisp accurate print available in fine art printing technology. People often mistake the prints for actual paintings.

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