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<A HREF="http://www.tantra.com/indra.html">"The Five Fold Sacrament" -

Indra

Sinha</A> < The texts from which the various Tantric sects drew their ritual

and moral instruction were written, mainly in Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Kashmir

and Tibet, over a period ranging roughly from the fourth century AD to the

present. Said to have been expounded by Shiva and the great Mother as fit

teachings for the fourth and final Hindu age - the Kali Yuga, era of

degeneracy and destruction - the texts contain advice to the sadhaka, or

Tantric worshipper, on every conceivable subject: cosmology; astrology;

different types of men and women; the significance of the 'chakras' or

psychic centres in the body; the nerves and channels through which the prana

or viral life energy flows; methods of raising kundalini energy through the

chakras; various types and forms of worship, including mantras (charms be

muttered) and yantras (abstract meditational designs); rituals involving the

worship of the goddess in the form of virgin girls; of the yoni-puja or

womb-worship; the rites of purification to be carried out before sexual

worship positions for meditation and sexual practice; prayers and poems to

the goddess and her consort; basic health care and how to bring up children.

Their magic spells sometimes had unexpected uses, as we read in the

Brhad-vimansastra, a hitherto untranslated text on flying machines which is

said to date ill from the medieval period: