On the Essence of Tantra

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Madhya:

<< Permit me to initiate a discussion regarding the essential elements

on which tantra yoga is based. The following poem was conceived to

embody what in my view, are the three fundamental elements of the

tantric view towards Self-realization/transformation. >>

 

http://pages.infinit.net/carrea/love/beloved2.htm

 

The Beloved her repply (part of it here) the rest on the web page.

 

 

The Greater Love

Which informs the universe

In exquisite pain,

In blissful torment,

In terrible beauty,

Cords rending the soul

Sounds whose harmonics

Create both light and darkness

No mystical dervish this--

I whirl amid a creator's abyss

Impaled by the lightning bolt

In the night's sky,

The womb in which

The Image of the world

Is born again and again,

Your touch

Is the sculptor's acid

Annihilating the last barriers

To my heart,

My body absorbs these fires through every pour

I seek you from the core of my being,

I wrap you about, to scream,

To rise higher.

Wind blown foam from the crests of these waves

Are tears in my eyes

As the storm wind's fury

Clasps me close to his breast

But at the center

Of the whirlwind

Silent and still

You and I remain the joining

Round which the stars dance.

>From someone who wanted to stay anonymous.

 

Antoine