Sunday, August 28, 2005

THE ESSENCE OF TANTRA

No human being wants to live in sorrow or misery. No one wants keep on wandering here and there looking for objects to satisfy their senses only to find frustration instead of satisfaction. Alas,most people in the world have found out for themselves that the much sought- for infinite happiness is not in finite objects. That only liberation from the natural bondage of staticity in man , can infinite happiness be attained. Thus it can be said that human beings knowingly or unknowingly want to attain God, the repository of infinite happiness.

Ananda Marga( meaning, the Path of Bliss or Infinite Happiness) imparts different lessons of Yoga to all those interested in the spiritual pursuit, free of cost. Besides Yoga there is another distinct system of spiritual practice called Tantra , as profounded by Lord Shiva . P. R. Sarkar, profounder of Ananda Marga teaches that the actual significance of Tantra is to liberate the human beings from the bondage of staticity. That is, the science which liberate people from bondages of the force of ignorance that leads man away from God. The latter "Ta" is the seed word of dullness. the root verb "Tare" suffixed by "Da" becomes "Tra" which means " That which liberates," i.e., the spiritual practice which liberates the spiritual aspirant from dullness or animality of the static force and expands his self in the Tantra Sadhana. Tantra is the Sadhana, which means a practice for expansion and this expansion is liberation from the bondage of all sorts of dullness.

The main characteristic of Tantra is that it represents manly vigour. It represents a pactless fight. Where there is no fight ,there is no Sadhjana. It is an impossibility to conquer a crude idea and to replace it with subtle idea without a fight. Hence , Tantra is not only a fight , it is an all round fight.

( To be continued)

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