tantra - Synergy of Love
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saha nau bhunaktu|
saha viryaM karavAvahe|
tejasvinAva dhitaM astu|
mA vidviSAvahe||
Aum shantiH shatiH shantiH||
May we both be protected.
May we both be provided for.
May we both excel in our pursuits.
May we both embody divine vision.
May we never hate each other.
Om peace, peace, peace.
Many people seem to be curious about tantra - I suspect for all the wrong reasons. This will be a very boring page for them (not that others aren't). But what's wrong with one more boring page?
Figure 10 below shows two persons we have already met before. They are in love and they are both interested in personal growth. Life offers special opportunity for them in the form of tantra. X loves Y so much that he wants to experience her like he has not experienced anyone else. Y loves X so much that she wants to experience X like she has experienced no one else. According to tantra, love has a way of making this possible. When we experience "other" person like X and Y want to experience each other, our personalities expand to include and contain that other person's. Can anyone think of easier way to grow? We should recall here that experience is connected with sattva guNa or being-ness. Most people misunderstand tantra and place emphasis on sex. Recall here that sex is an activity and thus connected with rajas guNa.
Thus it is easy to see with love, X and Y will now each grow such that the personality profile of X will be XYCB and that of Y will be YXBC. Indeed this is minimum one should expect of love. Synergy of love does the rest. When love reaches its full potential, personality profiles of both X and Y will grow beyond simple addition of their two personalities. Love has no limits. There personalities will grow to contain everything under the sun.
But how does this work? This is what I think. The only to experience another person is through our common base. X cannot experience Y on the material plane. There is no direct connection between X and Y on the plane AD. To expereience Y, X has to reach out to Y through the plane BC. Thus tantra forces X to reach out to sat-chit-Ananada, our common basis.
tantra while very appealing in its logic and methods, is practically beyond the reach of most people today. But it doesn't have to be that way. I think we can regain and relearn the lost art of loving. One can always start on this path by invoking the prayer above.
Let us conclude this brief discussion of tantra by reciting the brahma gAyatri mantra from mahA nirvANa tantra.
Aum sat chid ekam brahma
parameshvarAya vidmahe paratattvAya dhImahi,
tan no brahma prachodayAt
Om, being and consciousness are but one. May all (brahma) inspire us that we come to see and know god, that we may understand and embody the ultimate essence or the highest principle (which is love).
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