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Tantrik Texts
Arthur Avalon
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Written by a leading authority on Shaktic and Tantric thought, this book is considered the prime document for study and application of Kundalini yoga. It probes the philosophical and mythological nature of Kundalini; the esoteric anatomy associated with it; the study of mantras; the chakras, or psychic centers in the human body; the associated yoga and much, much more. Two important Tantric documents are included: The Description of the Six Chakras and Five-fold Footstool.
2012 Reprint of 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Tantra"
is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and
meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth
century, and which came to influence all forms of Asian religious
expression to a greater or lesser degree. Strictly speaking, this
usage of the word "tantra" is a scholarly invention, but it is
justifiable on the basis of the fact that the scriptures that
present these practices are generally known as "tantras,"
regardless of which religion they belong to. The historical
significance of the Tantric method lies in the fact that it
impacted every major Asian religion extant in the early medieval
period (c. 500 - 1200 CE): thus Shaivism, Buddhism, Vaishnavism,
and Jainism all developed a well-documented body of Tantric
practices and related doctrines. Its influence spread far outside
of India, into Tibet, Nepal, China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and
Indonesia. Today, it is Tibetan Buddhism and various forms of
Hinduism that show the strongest Tantric influence, as well as the
international postural yoga movement and most forms of American
alternative spirituality grouped under the New Age rubric. Defined
primarily as a technique-rich style of spiritual practice, Tantra
has no single coherent doctrine; rather, it developed different
teachings in connection with the different religions that adopted
the Tantric method. These teachings tended to support and validate
the practices of Tantra, which in their classical form are more
oriented to the married householder than the monastic or solitary
renunciant, and thus exhibited what may be called a world-embracing
rather than a world-denying character. Thus Tantra, especially in
its nondual forms, rejected the renunciant values of Patanjalian
yoga, offering instead a vision of the whole of reality as the
self-expression of a single, free and blissful Divine Consciousness
under whatever name, whether iva or Buddha-nature. Since the world
was viewed as real, not illusory, this doctrine was a significant
innovation over and against previous Indian philosophies, which
tended to picture the Divine as absolutely transcendent and/or the
world as illusion. The practical consequence of this view was that
not only could householders aspire to spiritual liberation in the
Tantric system, they were the type of practitioner that most
Tantric manuals had in mind. Furthermore, since Tantra dissolved
the dichotomy of spiritual versus mundane, practitioners could
entail every aspect of their daily lives into their spiritual
growth process, seeking to realize the transcendent in the
immanent. Though the vast majority of scriptural Tantric teachings
are not concerned with sexuality, in the popular imagination the
term tantra and the notion of superlative sex are indelibly linked.
This error probably arose from the fact that some of the more
radical nondual schools taught a form of sexual ritual as a way of
entering into intensified and expanded states of awareness and
dissolving mind-created boundaries.
This is not the usual "New Age" tantric sex manual, but a deeply
esoteric and traditional book. The scene of the revelation of this
Tantra is in the Himalayas, a holy land weighted with the
traditions. Here in these lofty lands, rose the great mountain, the
Sapta Kula Parvata. In these mountains Munis and Rishis lived. Here
also is the Kshetra of Shiva Mahadeva, where His Spouse Parvvati,
the daughter of the Mountain King, was born, and where Mother
Ganges also has her source. The paradise of Shiva is a summerland
of both lasting sunshine and cool shade, musical with the song of
birds and bright with undying flowers. The air, scented with sweet
fragrance, resounds with the music and song of celestial singers
and players. It is not, however, necessary to go to the Himalayas
to find Shiva. He dwells whereever his worshippers, abide, and His
mystic mount is to be sought in the thousand-petalled lotus in the
body of every human.
The present book Sarada-Tilaka of Laksmana Desikendra is one of the
important texts on Tantric subjects. It is divided into 25
Chapters. Chapter 1 is Prakrti and deals with the origin of
creation: the 23 chapters which follow demonstrate Prakrti-Vikrti;
the last chapter 25 is beyond Prakrti and Vikrti. But Sarada-Tilaka
is a tantric treatise which deals primarily with the Tantric
worship of gods and goddesses.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
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