Guest guest Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Dear Brother Nikhil, Thank you for the interesting post. We must also remember that after observing Sri Ramakrishna go into spontaneous samadhi while undergoing a very difficult tantric sadhana that Bhairavi Brahmani became very sure about the divinity of Sri Ramakrishna. It was after this that she started propagating that Sri Ramakrishna was an Avatar. Tantra is an essential part of Hindu worship today. The Yantras and the Mantras we use in worship today come from tantric roots. There is an excellent article on Tantra by Revered Swami Madhavanandaji in a collection of articles published by the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Kolkata. Like all other spiritual paths tantra too requires intense personal purity. Some of the controversial practices were actually tests for sadhaks. These tests on Buddhist monks percolated down to the householder tantrics with disastrous consequences. This was the case also in pre Ramakrishna Bengal. In " Mayer Padaprante " Part 3, Holy Mother is quoted as saying, " Sri Chaitanya would have sufficed for Kali Yuga had not people started practicing with women. It was to rout such practices that Thakur had to come. " I think this statement of Holy Mother will put Thakur's tantra sadhana in its proper perspective. Thakur came to purify tantra and give it back its high spiritual pedestal. Regards, Jagannath. Ramakrishna , " Nikhil Bhavadas Kaplingat " <kaplingat> wrote: > > Dear Sajith, > > In Sri Swami Saradanandaji's " Sri Sri Ramakrishna Leela Prasanga " , > he mentions 3 types of tantric practices - the demoniac, the heroic > and the divine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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