Guest guest Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Hi Everybody, I have recently joined this group and look forward to an enriching experience with you all. I would like to know if anybody here is initiated in Kaula tantra. Thanks, Shantanu Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 there are many Shandilya Gotra <shandilyagotra wrote: Hi Everybody, I have recently joined this group and look forward to an enriching experience with you all. I would like to know if anybody here is initiated in Kaula tantra. Thanks, Shantanu Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today / Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Namaste, Kaula Tantra was, I believe, practised nocturnally within generally circular 'Yogini Temples' in, for example, Orissa, eastern India. I sometimes wonder if there is some remote link between these medieval goddess temples and the megalithic stone circles - which also appear to have functioned as open-air temples - from India to North Africa and the British Isles? Worship within Kaula Circles represented the so-called 'left-hand' path of Tantra, wherein, ultimately, the Goddess is ritually worshipped in the form of a human being; http://gerald.anfossi.free.fr/carnets/Inde/2000/yogini.jpg whereas the 'right-hand' path focuses more on inner spiritual development of individuals. In the end, the two paths are one. The appearance of Yogini Temples in 10th century CE India, may also indicate the re-emergence of Goddess spirituality, millennia after it had been subjugated by patriarchal Vedic culture. Of course, you don't actually need an open-air Yogini Temple to worship the Great Goddess who is present within every woman, but whether you need to be initiated into this realisation is another matter entirely, I imagine. Jai Ma! m6 , sankara menon <kochu1tz> wrote: > there are many > > Shandilya Gotra <shandilyagotra> wrote: Hi Everybody, > > I have recently joined this group and look forward to an enriching experience with you all. I would like to know if anybody here is initiated in Kaula tantra. > > Thanks, > > Shantanu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Re: Kaula Tantra - this paraphrased from Donald Kenrick, 'The Kalee are an element among the Romanies of Europe, located in Finland and North Wales. The name indicates the colour 'black' in Romani and other Indian languages ... the 'Kauli' are the largest Romani group in modern Persia as well as being found in Iraq. The Kalee and the Kauli may have had common roots in India'. - 'Gypsies: from India to the Mediterranean' (1993), p38. In view of the Romani Sara-la-Kali icon in southern France - and is 'Sara' here a westernised form of 'Tara' - the above passage may shed some more light on the mysterious Yogini circles in India? http://www.wildmuse.net/faerie/roma/queen.html http://www.marykellystudio.homestead.comkalis.htm Jai Kali Om Tara m6 , "m6" <megalith6@h...> wrote: > Namaste, > > Kaula Tantra was, I believe, practised nocturnally within generally > circular 'Yogini Temples' in, for example, Orissa, eastern India. > > I sometimes wonder if there is some remote link between these > medieval goddess temples and the megalithic stone circles - which > also appear to have functioned as open-air temples - from India to > North Africa and the British Isles? > > Worship within Kaula Circles represented the so-called 'left-hand' > path of Tantra, wherein, ultimately, the Goddess is ritually > worshipped in the form of a human being; > > http://gerald.anfossi.free.fr/carnets/Inde/2000/yogini.jpg > > > whereas the 'right-hand' path focuses more on > inner spiritual development of individuals. > > In the end, the two paths are one. > > The appearance of Yogini Temples in 10th century CE India, may also > indicate the re-emergence of Goddess spirituality, millennia after it > had been subjugated by patriarchal Vedic culture. > > Of course, you don't actually need an open-air Yogini Temple to > worship the Great Goddess who is present within every woman, but > whether you need to be initiated into this realisation is another > matter entirely, I imagine. > > Jai Ma! > > m6 > > > > , sankara menon <kochu1tz> > wrote: > > there are many > > > > Shandilya Gotra <shandilyagotra> wrote: Hi Everybody, > > > > I have recently joined this group and look forward to an enriching > experience with you all. I would like to know if anybody here is > initiated in Kaula tantra. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Shantanu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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