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!

Copyright (C) Subhojit Dasgupta.

Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra

Tantra Shuns Nothing, Judges Nothing

Just as one needs to be positive and have a good feeling about connecting deeply with a person before he or she actually gets to that point, one needs to be happy about any work one takes on before that work can lead to any degree of satisfaction. Your life depends on you being happy.

Are you happy? Have you ever perceived moments of divine harmony in your life? The peak moment of sexual ecstasy is only the first step towards this harmony. Can you even begin to imagine how pleasurable this process is? This pertains less to the act of making love and more to the peak moment of ecstasy it leads to – and one can achieve that peak even without the sexual act.

Imagine yourself in a place of complete and utter beauty… a place that is not just visually pleasing but effulgent in its effect. A place where you are completely satisfied without even trying to be, where you attain a sense of completeness without even asking – both in the sexual and non-sexual sense. If you can imagine or conceive this, then you glimpse a miniscule fraction of what Tantra can give you.

When two people engage in any intimate activity together, be it making love or cooking, two essences mingle to make that activity special. The brush of a hand reaching for a bowl, the conjoined love that seeps into a dish, the inhaling of aromas … all add up an experience that transcends the mere mechanics of cooking.

A dish tastes that much better when it is made by two people whose souls are open to each other, and whose essences mingle to infuse the food being cooked. It raises the act of preparing a meal to an art – to contentment, to happiness.

This feeling is what every human soul yearns for, and this is what Tantra offers. It encompasses every sphere of life, transforming every ordinary activity into an act of pleasure. This, in fact, is the goal of every religion in the world.

If a person is not happy, something has gone wrong somewhere. A person may not be inclined to follow the path laid down by a religion or philosophy properly, or may not have understood the path sufficiently… the problem could lie anywhere.

Though an integral part of the Vedic scriptures, Tantra is not a religion precisely because Tantra asks us to dive consciously and unreservedly into the very temptations that religions ask us to shun.

Tantra says that we should not shun anything the heart wants, but rather that temptations should leave us over time. This happens once we realise that they have no greater use than momentary satiation. Once the body, the mind and the heart have had enough, they will stop responding to temptation.

What Tantra does require is a state of happiness – a state we achieve by overcoming the restrictions we have imposed on ourselves by accepting them in our lives, and by walking down those very paths to overthrow them. Tantra picks you up like a baby and makes a man or a woman out of you.

This may bring up a natural question – why would you want your desires to leave you? Because they are of no real value in your life, and hinder your progress to higher levels of consciousness.

Tantra shuns and judges nothing, and nothing is taboo or black or white. There is only good, and more good. Some things have greater goodness than others, but there is nothing that Tantra considers bad. It asks of nothing from its followers except that they desire true happiness and accept and receive its precepts without pre-conceived notions.

The true follower of Tantra is like a new-born who opens his eyes for the first time and takes in all the shapes, colours and objects around him. He does not judge; he merely observes, and is happy and excited by it all.

This is why many children have spontaneous spiritual experiences, which gradually lessen in frequency and intensity as they grow older and conform to the mechanics of contemporary society. There is no conflict between the conscious and the subconscious in a child’s mind. He does what he wants to and does it with a supreme lack of guilt, inhibition or hesitation.

Look into the eyes of a child … witness the innocence, the wonder and the happiness in them. He is happy in every moment. His mind and being are ensconced within that moment itself. His soul does not judge, just accepts. He does not believe in bartering like adults do most of the times – rather, he gives and receives just for the pleasure of giving and receiving. He gives when he wants to and he is equally happy to receive.

This kind of free happiness, when experienced in the act of making love, is called Tantric Sex. Most of us go through the motions of life without actually living it, much as we scratch a boil simply because it is itching.

Tantra, however, wants everybody to live life to the hilt, immersed in its moments, whether good or not-so-good, loving everything and everybody around them and judging nothing. Tantra states that it is only when we do not project any negativity that negativity leaves us.

Follow its methods, and Tantra will teach you to be the master of your life… to shape it into what you want it to be and what it ideally should be. We have forgotten the child within us and become a part of a knee-jerk society. We filter out things that we perceive as irrelevant to our scheme of things, thereby ignoring the bigger picture.

But true followers of Tantra see everything with the boundless pleasure of a new-born baby … we are forever in that moment of pleasure. Tantra believes that the core energy that rules the world – the source of every creation – is feminine energy. We can harness that energy and use it to make vast changes in our own as well as others’ lives.

Have you achieved even a small glimpse of the world that Tantra offers you? Then, perhaps, you are ready for more. Tantra is not a quick-fix solution for nirvana – you need to prepare for a journey that will last your entire lifetime.

Recognise the opportunities before you. The benefits of this journey will last you not just this life, but several more to come, whether you believe in reincarnation or not. There is more to come, much more… and it is heading your way…

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…

Copyright (C) Subhojit Dasgupta

Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra