Tantra

• Tantra by Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita

1. Love gives pleasure and pain too. What does Tantra propose about it?

There is a beautiful meditation from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra which says; "Oh Beloved, put attention neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between these. It is a basic fact that if we explore the world of duality very deeply, we find that there is a place where dualities meet. I call this meeting point, the creation principle, or the god principle. We are challenged to live duality very fully, and once we know both sides, to then bring them together in our awareness and discover the miracle that happens when they meet. You can try it now, just close your eyes and imagine a very painful love experience. Feel it totally in your whole body/mind and emotional network. Once you have anchored this feeling, then move to a very pleasurable love experience. Feel it as totally as possible in your body, emotions and memory. Once this has been anchored, you can try the experiment of what happens within your inner landscape when these two memories merge. Invite them to meet each other in embrace. Something new will emerge out of this meeting. The transformation which happens through the meeting of opposites can be so powerful that it can even bring about satori.

If you are wishy washy and are afraid of pain, then you will also not be able to feel pleasure. The art of life is to feel both very deeply and intensely, and then to shift your focus "neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between these."

2. How Tantra can help overcome lonliness and boredom?

I am reminded of another meditation from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra: "Gracious one, play. The universe is an empty shell wherein your mind frolics infinitely." We get bored and lonely because we have lost the ability to play with life. If you can shift your way of perception just a little, to the perception of life as a friend, instead of the enemy, this may be very helpful. Come into a child like state, and imagine that in life you are with your best friend, who adores you and thinks you are the best and most interesting person in the world. With this friend, called life, you play and have the most amazing time. Together, you are endlessly creative, finding ways to extract the nectar out of each moment. You can try this as a meditation. Just take 1/2 hour, and during that time, imagine life is your best friend. You can speak to life out loud as the friend. Ask life what it proposes to play with today. Hug life. Allow your spontaneous inner child like nature to come out to play. Invent games. follow your intuition. Frolic. Play. As your spontaneity begins flowing, simultaneously, you may find yourself falling in love with yourself. One who is in love, is never bored. After playing with life for 1/2 hour, sit in meditation to anchor this experience. Then bow down in gratitude.

3. Why is Tantra becoming so popular with modern man?

Tantra is so popular today because we are ready for a love-olution. Duality has kept us enslaved in extremes of war and peace for thousands of years. Men and women have become enemies, because of lack of understanding about how biology, love and consciousness fit together. In all this insanity, there is one sane voice, and that is Tantra. We are called through Tantra to come back home to our intelligence, our love, our awareness, our natural flowing joy, and our sensitivity. People have had enough of slavery of all kinds, whether it be the brainwashing of religious fanaticism, or political manipulation. We simply want to live in the radiant truth which is apparent in every human smile, and in every act of love. We are like prodigal children who have wandered far away from the home, and are now ready to come back to great festivities. Tantra is a festival which supports body, mind and soul to come into one organic unified whole. We have suffered enough indignity. We are ready for the truth which sets us free to love again.

Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita
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