Charmananda: The Eternal Orgasm

Desire is all-pervasive – it exists in us at all times. We either indulge or suppress it, but few of us understand it. Let me explain desire – true desire.

Gautama Buddha said that desire is suffering. I can agree to this only if I extrapolate on it – to desire is to suffer, but only when you do not know how to desire. The monk may have sold his Ferrari, but how did he acquire it in the first place? The sequel – ‘I Bought The Monk’s Ferrari’ – tells us that to renounce something, you first have to possess it.

I believe in the goodness of desire and affirm its importance. In today’s world, where the social, economical and political milieu demands that we keep up with the Joneses or get morally battered by them, it is important to pursue our desires. However, we must do so intelligently, resourcefully and esoterically. An accomplished exponent of Tantra can show the right way to pursue one’s desires. Welcome to my world.

It is important to understand our desires and not deny or suppress them. We must allow our desires to reach the very peak of their urgency before satiating them. Tantra propounds that desire in itself is not a sin. There is no such thing as shameful desire – however, the intention behind that desire may be sinful and shameful for mortal beings.

We must never forget that everyone exists in this world for a reason. To find our purpose is our life’s primary objective – the next is to fulfil it. Living without understanding our purpose is futile.

Desires are integral to our being. To deny them is to deny a large part of our essential being. Life is meant to be a celebration – and enjoyment of what Tantra calls ‘Charmananda‘ (the eternal orgasm). An accomplished Tantric exponent can lead you to it.

Hope. Hope is what sustains us, even though there are no guarantees in life. The Tantric master offers you exactly what you need. The uninitiated initially find it difficult to understand the nature and promise of Tantra. However, the Tantra master has a deep comprehension of a timeless scientific art.

The teacher of Tantra practises these all his life and has experienced the immense benefits first-hand. He does not sell pipe dreams – he offers a tried and tested gift – the gift of unlimited potential and consciousness.

The various Tantra courses we offer can be customised to individual needs. The customized Tantra course includes all aspects the student’s consciousness needs – kriyas, mudras, meditation, theory, etc. However, it will put greatest emphasis on the practical application of all these in the student’s daily life.

A great thought serves little purpose if it does not positively impact one’s life. Most seekers of Tantric truth fall by the wayside because they cannot reconcile their esoteric practices in their daily lives. As a Tantra teacher, it is my mission to help my students incorporate their newfound knowledge into mainstream life, thereby transforming their lives into a continuous explosion of ‘Charmananda‘.

No, desire is not evil. Everything in life is worth acquiring provided that we understand the desired object’s rightful place in our life. Understanding the right way to cater to and fulfil our desires is vital. Ironically, though we have all the technological conveniences of modern life, we have lost the essence of life itself. Our ancestors had a firm grasp on this essence – now, Tantra will help you re-acquire your rightful love for life!

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra

TANTRA – The Sadhana of Tantric Awareness

I have found that Tantra is an ambiguous but strong word for many. It conjures up at least three different images for different people – sex, harnessing dark forces or the notorious lounge in the United States.

The reason for the first is easy to understand – sex is a universal buzzword and New Age bookstores use ‘Tantra’ as an attention-grabbing keyword. Authors, too, find sex to be the easiest tool to sell their name and their works. In fact, a majority of people relate Tantra to the sexual act, and most books available on Tantra deal with only that aspect of the philosophy.

Tantra also finds itself limited by various negative connotations that elicit shudders in many. Even in popular cinema, Tantra is depicted as a powerful tool for harming others, and its practitioners as pre-disposed to using it for just that. The fact is – Tantra is an esoteric science, with highly artistic methods and processes that carry the essence of Creation within.

When someone tries to use Tantra for any kind of selfish gain, karma – which plays a part in the process – can go awry if misdirected, even unconsciously. The tool cannot be blamed – only the one who wields it. A knife can cut a person’s throat as easily as it can cut an apple, but one can never blame the knife – only the hand that holds it.

Finally, there’s the lounge in the United States whose activities underline the popular and misguided belief that Tantra is a licence for free sex. What the lounge has going for it is the lack of knowledge and easy access to sensuality that plagues the average American, who lives on fast food and Playboy. As pointed out earlier, this lounge merely uses sex as a tool to draw people in through the exoticism of Tantra.

Here, I would like to clear out the misconceptions and help you understand the path I follow. This will help you understand what the truth of Tantra actually is, and I ask for your full attention. What follows is something you may never have considered due to the current social limitations placed on individuals. I will take you to a place that you have seen, felt, maybe even experienced… but never completely understood.

You’ve heard of the Big Bang Theory, right? A mass of energy that exploded and created the planets, including ours? Well, the Tantric theory of how life began is not all that different. At one point, there was a mass of energy, pulsating, throbbing with life and forever expanding. When large enough, it expanded and formed several, smaller masses of energy, each expanding on its own but, in essence, conjoined with the source. One became 100, 100 became 1000 and this continued till the energy reached what mathematicians despairingly call Infinity.

It is still expanding, throbbing with life, and will forever do so. Imagine if you could hold this energy within you, feel it throbbing inside you, filling each and every nook and cranny of your body, flowing in your veins … how do you think it would feel?

Stop for a moment and imagine it, then read on…

For one thing, you would feel complete. You would feel at harmony with everything around you – a feeling every human being yearns for in every lifetime. The feeling of completeness, of oneness with the cosmos, of balance – for that is what happiness is all about. And that is what Tantra gives you.

Admittedly, there are many paths to harmony. There are many religions… but let me tell you in all humility that the only path with the answers to every query on anything and everything under the sun is the one called Tantra. Tantra is, after all, encompasses all existing paths in the world.

Each and every religion, be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism or Judaism, is wholly or loosely based on Tantra. I like to call it the one-stop- spirituality shop. While every religion is demarcated into learning and practices, for Tantra, learning is practising.

With other religions one can easily stop at the learning and talk as though from vast experience. With Tantra, there is no such scope. If you’re not doing it, you’re completely wasting your time. In fact, Tantra is not a religion in the modern sense – nor does it either deride or approve of other religions. It lets everything and everybody just … be. If you liken all religions and spiritual paths to a web of roads to take you to your destination, then Tantra is the freeway.

However, while it is the most powerful and effective way, it is also the most misunderstood. Throughout the ages, everything of great value has been easily abused – and also feared if it is not understood. Someone not ready for Tantra can never find success with its methods. By ‘ready’, I mean having attained a certain level of consciousness.

The true teachers of Tantra have never denied their knowledge to those who they perceive as ready for its wisdom. After all, does one run before one learns to walk? Just as a person’s body grows in stages, so does one’s mind. A seeker cannot be expected to grasp the bigger picture before the attainment of a certain level of consciousness.

How does a person come into being? How did you come into this world? There are a million answers to that question, ranging from a simple ‘From my mother’ to a detailed textbook account of the procreative act. But consider this – one sperm conjoined with one egg and suddenly there is life? Have you ever thought about the implications of the truth of that sexual act? About the immense force of energy it carries?

Consider this, too – if that energy does not go into creating a baby, where does it go? What happens to it, keeping in mind that scientists have proven that energy can neither be created nor destroyed? The answer lies in Tantra.

Tantra can be used to create anything you want. The depth of the process of procreation is least understood. Not many realise that creating anything requires the processes of comparable depth. Tantra helps harness this energy in order to derive the maximum benefit from any activity. Tantra can transform every mundane act into an act of Ecstasy.

Ideally, every moment of human life should be filled with limitless happiness and joy that engulfs a person completely. Tantra can bring you to a point of complete and utter happiness, satiation and contentment… but following the path it prescribes requires you to keep an open and unbiased mind about everything. All achievement calls for unwavering focus, unstinting acceptance of the path and a destination. Any two without the third can achieve nothing at all.

Vast energy reserves can be harnessed by Tantric kriyas and mudras, which can elevate your life to a totally different level. Sexual union is an important part of Tantra, for in that moment of sexual ecstasy one unknowingly glimpses the divine harmony that awaits a follower of this path.

Consider – what if you could magnify that moment a thousandfold and hold it forever? What if you were no longer subject to the process of wooing a mate and making love just to be in that moment for a few seconds? Tantra can help achieve this state.

To be continued…

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra

Tantra Leads To Supreme Enlightenment

There are numerous paths to achieve Realization. Of the many paths, Tantra is considered as the ‘crown’ of realization because it puts you in direct contact with the entire process of complete realization.

The reason why Tantra is so powerful is because Tantra interconnects and unites all of reality, and everything attained on the physical level also crosses into the spiritual level as well. And the spiritual and the physical are no longer separate but an integral part of each other.

Tantra is a way of life and a complete spiritual movement in itself, which originated in India, as per Vedic evolution. Tantra is a diverse and rich spiritual tradition of India and it forms an integral part of the Vedas or Vedic scriptures.

The process of Tantric Realization comprises a vast and diverse array of Tantric and Agaamic scriptures, some of which are yet to be translated from the ancient Sanskrit scriptures.

Tantric scriptures deal with extremely advanced meditations, rituals, symbolism, and energy-transfer processes known as Shakti-paat. The esoteric forms of Tantra using mantras or the powerful sacred sounds are known as Mantrayana.

An offshoot of Tantra is Tantric Buddhism known as Vajrayana or the Vehicle of the Thunderbolt. The vajra is a double-headed ritual tool, used with a bell. Held in the right hand, it represents the masculine, skillful means, and compassion. The bell in the left hand represents the feminine, wisdom, emptiness, and nirvana.

In the Vajrayana the five Jinas namely Akshobya, Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, Ratnasambhava, and Vairocana, also known as the Dhyani-Buddha, are a major focus of tantric meditation. But Tantra is regarded as a faster way of attaining Buddha-nature than the path of the bodhisattvas.

The process of realization with Tantra is through ALL our faculties – the senses, the emotions, and the intellect, encouraged and roused to their highest pitch, so that our deepest memories and responses are awakened and converted into the pure energy from which they all originated.

Tantra tries to realize the continuous connection between all human states and conditions. This realization is brought about by using more than eight million tantric mudras and their permutations and combinations used in Tantra meditation, as well as advanced sexual postures, as our deepest feelings and pleasures become the raw material for our transformation into supreme or Tantric Enlightenment.

Copyright (C) Subhojit Dasgupta

Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra