Tantra: The Method Of Kindling Dormant Energies

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Article of the Month - July 2008

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Tantra: The Method Of Kindling Dormant Energies

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The Image Of Tantra In Common Man's Mind

 

Tantra - a unique spiritual system capable of resolving the

mystery of Being and its relationship with the world without

itself being mysterious, caught in the cobwebs of misconceptions,

misled beliefs, clergies' disapprovals, moralists' censure,

ethical concerns, quakes' and sorcerers' misuses and abuses,

opposition of the 'authorized - theology, philosophy ., and above

all, the centuries long antipathy of Islamic and Christian

rulers, has been the subject of neglect, indifference and even

aversion for quite some time now. The term 'Tantra', often seen

personified in the person practicing it, the 'tantrika', brings

to mind's eye the image of a man with a rugged, coarse,

hoary-looking, bearded and wrinkled face, eyes deeply pushed into

their sockets, and locks of rough uncouth muddy long hair hung

around shoulders. Wearing a long loosely hung black cloak and

strings of multi-colored, multi-shaped and multi-sized beads,

stones and amulets, with a bundle of peacock feathers in his

hands, he is fantasized as seated against a smoky hearth in a

dark murky odorous cell in the suburb of a tribal or backward

hamlet, engaged in practices considered to relate to ghosts, evil

spirits or other forms of witch-craft and black arts. To

so-conditioned a mind, Tantra is a system comprising incredible,

primitive, unscientific beliefs, which by inciting blind faith

exploits undeveloped or under-developed masses.

 

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