Basic Tantra Techniques: The Art of Tantra Mudras (Or Tantra Positions)

Tantra mudras are positions that are Tantra exercises in themselves. We start with Tantra Shashankasam. Remember to have a qualified Tantra teacher guide you as you initially attempt this powerful Tantra position.

•    To begin this Tantra exercise, sit on your knees with palms on thighs. Close eyes and relax, but keep spine and head straight.

•    Inhale deeply and lift arms above head, keeping them straight and shoulder-width apart. As you breathe out, bend forward from the hips, keeping arms and head in a straight line. In this stage of the Tantra exercise, hands and forehead should eventually rest on the floor in front of your knees. Bend your elbows, so that arms are fully relaxed and hold for five seconds.

•    Then inhale and slowly raise arms and body back to the upright position.

•    Exhale and return your palms to the top of your thighs. Repeat 3-5 times. After doing it for 5-6 times, relax and imagine a ball of golden light before you for 15 minutes.

Once this stage of the Tantra exercise is completed, you should proceed to Tantra Parvatasanam. This Tantra technique will strengthen the nerves and muscles in your arms and legs, and stimulate circulation in the upper spine.

•    Kneel on raised heels and stretch your arms forward so your forehead is on the floor. Breathe deeply and relax for a few seconds. Raise yourself on to your hands and knees, keeping your toes tucked under and your back flat.

•    Inhale and push up onto your toes. Raise your buttocks and lower your head between your arms. Your back and legs should form two sides of a triangle.

•    Exhale, rest your feet on the floor and try to touch the floor with the top of your head. Hold this position of the Tantra exercise for 10 seconds.

Obtaining expert guidance from an experienced, authentic Tantra teacher while practicing these ancient Tantra mudras is extremely important. Remember that by practicing these Tantra positions, you are fundamentally inviting powerful forces of self-realization into your life. When these ancient Tantra techniques are practiced under expert supervision, they have the potential to change your life to the core.

Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra teacher and offers Tantra lessons to select pupils.

Attain Perpetual Calm Through Tantra Breathing: Prana Tattwa

Ancient Tantra assures that by practicing Tantra breathing, you free yourself of the stress that plagues your life. You will be able to use Tantra breathing to relax, and to finally experience relaxation as the natural state of your being.

Deep Tantra breathing is both calming and energizing. The Tantra energy you feel after a few minutes of careful Tantra breathing is not uneasy or forceful – it is the calm, steady energy we all need. Slow, steady, and quiet Tantra breathing delivers a soothing internal massage to your nervous system.

The Tantra breathing technique called Prana tattwa should be practiced in the morning, and on an empty stomach. This will release an optimum amount of Tantra energy into the system.

1. To begin this Tantra technique, sit with your spine as straight as possible. Use a chair if necessary, but don’t slump into it. Keep your feet flat on the floor, with the knees directly over the center of your feet. Use a book or cushion under your feet if they do not rest comfortably on the floor. Keep your hands on the tops of your legs.

2. Close your eyes gently and let them rest behind closed lids.

3. Visualize your ribs, at the front, back, and at the sides of your body. Your lungs are behind those ribs.

4. Begin the Tantra breathing routine by feel your lungs filling up, your ribs expanding out and up. Feel your lungs emptying, your ribs coming back down and in. Don’t push the breath.

5. The first few times you do this Tantra breathing technique, do it only for five minutes. Gradually step up to ten minutes.

Practicing Prana tattwa Tantra breathing for a few minutes each day gradually prepares you for learning the various advanced Tantra postures/mudras and kriyas.

Obtaining expert guidance from an experienced, authentic Tantra teacher while practicing ancient Tantra breathing is extremely important. Remember that by practicing these Tantra techniques, you are fundamentally inviting powerful forces of self-realization into your life. When these ancient Tantra techniques are practiced under expert supervision, they have the potential to change your life to the core.

Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra teacher and offers Tantra lessons to select pupils.

The Story Of Christ In Tantric Scriptures

The world has known many saints and prophets and as the central figure of Christianity, Jesus Christ is one of the most popular personalities. Who doesn’t know the story of his birth, persecution, death and subsequent resurrection? However, there is a relationship to ancient Tantra to his story, as well. Do you wonder at this? Read on…

From the age of 13 to 29 years, Jesus’ life is mostly unaccounted for by Christian history. There are, in fact, elements of a resurrection or ‘rebirth’ even to this part of his life. Allow a Tantra teacher to explain the message of this obscure fact to you.

The scriptures of Tantra list Jesus as one of the 84000 avatars of the Almighty. An avatar, in Sanskrit, means a divine being sent down to pursue a certain spiritual mission.

Jesus Christ, in fact, belonged to this hierarchy of saints and prophets, sent down by the Almighty to chalk out a specific path of spirituality for the people of the pre-Biblical period ruled by King Herod. He had to chalk this path out from the vast eternal knowledge, also known as the ‘Sanatana Dharma’ in the Tantric Scriptures.

The three wise kings of Bethlehem, or the Magi, knew of his coming, and followed the bright star to the stable where the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus. The scriptures of Tantra, however, have a different take on their journey; they tell us that it was the full moon that led the three wise kings to their destination.

According to Tantra, a divine being or a messenger of God always chooses to ‘descend’ on earth at the time of a full moon – an auspicious time for all divine beginnings. Thus the full moon is always a signal to those who know how to read the signs, like the Magi.

Christ’s spiritual awakening began during his childhood, when his purpose on earth dawned on him. He had visions of a land awaiting him … a land that held the promise of vast eternal knowledge or ‘sanatana dharma’ for him. These led him on a long and arduous journey that ended in the land of ‘sanatana dharma’ or India – the birthplace and stronghold of ancient Tantra.

For sixteen years, he lived and studied in India under the tutelage of various teachers who were ready and waiting for him, just as his visions had foretold. It was from them that he learnt all the streams of philosophy and wisdom that would be required for the success of his earthly mission.

Of everything that he learnt, there were a few things that are particularly noteworthy. He learnt a sacred Tantra kriya that enabled him to project his life-force or ‘prana’ onto an inanimate object, an ancient tantra skill that he utilized at his crucifixion to eliminate all consciousness of bodily pain even as his soul lived on. This Tantra kriya is called ‘Kaya Pravesham’ or Projection of Life-Energy onto an Object.

After crucifixion, when his body was left in a cave and found to have disappeared on the third day, even his persecutors had to admit that he was no ordinary being. His resurrection, in fact, is further proof that he had mastered this tantra kriya completely.

The Vedas talk about him as Ishu which became, by popular spelling, Jishu and subsequently Jesus to the world. ‘Ish’ means the Almighty; add ‘u’ to that and the word immediately signifies one who is a part of Him.

It is a known fact among Tantra masters that Jesus Christ spent a large portion of his life in India -at a divine place called Jagannatha Dhama, meaning The House of God. It is God Almighty’s abode on Earth, according to the Vedic scriptures. Jesus, too, believed it to be the earthly abode of his Father in Heaven. This was the very place that taught him the intricacies of Hinduism and all the allied branches of religious and spiritual wisdom.

Interestingly, during this period, he also visited another divine place called Banaras (Varanasi) for advanced learning of some aspects of philosophy and spiritual logic. During that period not a soul – not his father nor his mother – knew where he was… a prerequisite for all saints-in-the-making so that spiritual missions are not disrupted.

Tantra scriptures give an account of Christ’s journey to India and his studies there. Jesus Christ came to India and was instructed to preach Christianity derived from the Eternal Truth or ‘Sanatana Dharma’ from which all religions evolve.

Christianity is what the people of that time period needed, for they belonged to a certain category of spiritual consciousness. They needed something to give them respite from King Herod’s dictatorial reign. Christian spirituality restored their faith in the Divine and helped them fight the repressive and destructive forces of King Herod.

Yet, all that we know of Christ has come to us from the Church. This particular phase of his life (from the age of 13 to 29 years) may be unaccounted for by Christian institutions, but the scriptures of Tantra provide us with richly detailed accounts of it. The earthly lives of the Messengers of God hold many a wondrous secret and a treasure trove of wisdom, but to understand them one must go to the right people.

One must refrain from relying on a few authors who may never have had access to the original Tantra scriptures; most have isolated their personal research from the base source. One must go to the few who have made good use of their access to the original scriptures.

In recounting this, my only aim as a Tantra teacher has been to clear the state of confusion that surrounds a portion of Christ’s life in the present generation, and to preserve it for those to come…

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra teacher and offers Tantra lessons to select pupils.

A Tantra Goddess Called Rani Laxmibai

Most would not attribute any elements of ancient Tantra to Rani Laxmibai – the Queen of Jhansi – who brandished her sword during India’s First War of Independence. However, an experienced Tantra master cannot fail to see a Tantra Goddess behind the warrior.

At a time when women seldom found a place at the forefront of politics, this unmistakeable spiritual goddess gave her heart, body and soul to her country. This divine aspect is a side of her that history has overlooked. A Tantra teacher will not fail to note that the Queen of Jhansi was a woman of immense sensual power… a power that she channelled into warfare.

History may have overlooked her great beauty, her cascading hair that fell to her thighs – hair that was kept at bay as she took the male mantle of a ruler upon her shoulders. However, an exponent of Hindu Tantra will recognize and bow before the Tantra energy of this woman.

She is the woman who proves that feminism then was not the same concept as we know it today. At that time, this Tantric avatar of a woman did not charge in battle to prove anything to anyone about her abilities as a woman. She did what she, a woman of great responsibility and innate Tantric power, knew she had to do – fight for her people. This is true power … the power that does not need to be shown, but shines through of its own accord. It is the very essence of ancient Tantra in powerful, fluid and dynamic motion.

Yes, Rani Laxmibai was a true Tantra Goddess, fuelled by largely unfulfilled desires that she translated into a flawless act of Tantra love onto the battlefield. She had only just been married when her husband passed away, leaving her unloved and childless.

According to Tantra philosophy, a virgin is to be worshipped – and not without good reason. A woman can best utilize her power if her sensual divine is left untapped. A virgin girl who has never had relief from her erotic desires has the power to transform those desires into whatever she wants. For Rani Laxmibai, her untapped erotic power turned into zeal to protect her kingdom and country.

When left without any semblance of a family life, Rani Laxmibai turned to those considerations that could keep her life together – her kingdom and her people. It would not be completely accurate to say that her life at that time was devoid of any intimate relations, but fulfilment was elusive. Her maternal core adopted her people and ruled them with love and care.

In Tantra philosophy, it is understood that a woman is a passive-active force, while a man is active-passive force, and so they balance out very well. The degrees of intensity vary from woman to woman – but for Rani Laxmibai, it was high … and that is this intensity she displayed on the battlefield.

Tantra philosophy shows how sensual energy – the strongest manifesting energy we have – can create a Tantra Goddess out of any woman and bring a man in touch with his creative feminine side. If you need an example of true Tantra manifestation – the epitome of a sensual Goddess coming into her own with her power – look no further than the Rani of Jhansi, Rani Laxmibai.

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra teacher and offers Tantra lessons to select pupils.

Why learn Tantra – Connecting with your Tantric soul…

In this day and age people have started looking upon life like they would upon coffee – they want it instant. Nirvana is no less for them. They want that in an instant too. This hunger for everything – fame, riches, sex – has had most people reaching out for quantity, not quality, reducing what could be unimaginable pleasure to a mere fraction of its potential.

Most relationships are fragmented because there is little time and energy to enjoy what they have as they spend most of their time striving for more. This continuous desire feeds on itself, and it seems that the more you get, the more you want; nothing is ever enough. And thus unhappiness is created and most people end up abusing alcohol, drugs etc to “escape” reality and Whatever bit of happiness is snatched from a few fleeting moments, is short-lived as no one can escape reality.
 
A quick fix is wanted for every situation and desire in life. But life is meant to be savoured, and hurrying through the journey to the finishing line is hardly the most qualitative way to live. With the kind of environment that most of us grow up in and live in, it is hard for most of us to believe that there is any other way to live.

But Tantra says that there is an alternative, the only alternative; in fact, it is the only way to live as Happiness comes from the simple things in life. Tantra dates back to eternity and originated in India for expanding the human consciousness and ecstatic states of bliss and peace.

It’s a spiritual lifestyle that is grounded in simple embodied practices that return us to our natural state of inner freedom and divine love. There are many different levels within Tantra, offering different principles of awareness and practice.

A proper, dedicated study of Tantra under the guidance of Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta will empower you with the right means and methods of enjoying a satisfying sensual life, which in turn will enable you to be well and truly happy. Tantra is not a religion, but a way of life. The good life. Tantra shows us the right path to peace of mind; Tantra shows us the right path to true happiness.

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra

Tantra and Tantric sex – Explaining the tantric path

A shloka from Tantra Rahasayam explains Tantra as “Tanyate vistaryate jnanam anemna iti tantram” (Tantra is the divine scripture by which the light of advanced spiritual knowledge is spread).

Tantra is an ancient system of psycho-spiritual meditations and self-realization techniques that originated in India. It is still practiced in its authentic entirety by a young Tantra Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta, who represents the most ancient lineage of Tantra in India.

Tantra is collectively a large set of specific tantric techniques that includes yamas, niyamas, asanas, mudras, pratyaharas, dharanas, dhyanas and samadhi techniques. These techniques are considered an integral part of tantric self-realization and awareness.

Tantra is defined as the combination of tattva (the advanced science of cosmic principles), and mantra (the sciences of mystic sound and energy vibrations) and its various applications. Authentic Tantra is based on the harmonization of this combination, raising its intensity to unlimited potency.

Tantra can further the growth of human consciousness in all its manifestations – in personal growth, health, business, and knowledge – treating mind, body and spirit as aspects of the one intelligence.

But there is a unique aspect to Tantra: Unlike several other religions and paths that preach abstinence from all that give pleasure, Tantra proclaims that a life without pleasure is no life at all. Moreover, our desires will continue to haunt us until they are allowed to reach its peak; only after that can it be submerged. Tantra instead says that the transcendental experience of sexual union should be utilized in our path to spiritual awareness. Does that mean that the paths that teach abstinence are wrong?

No! It simply means that they are trying to attain transcendence in different ways. Their aim is the same, only their basic methods differ from Tantra.

Tantra aims for the transcendence of the transient world and aims at giving its practitioners, experiences of intense meditation. Tantra recognizes sex as an important part of a person’s being and the development of one’s soul, but acquiring the right balance is the key.

Tantra is to be used as a spiritual path by people who do not prefer to sacrifice their sexual activities, either due to their disposition or because they are involved in family life.

Rather than suppressing our sexual inclinations, Tantra asks us to utilize the power of sex to gain transcendence. It instructs us not to have sexual play but to use it to climb the ladder of spiritual consciousness. Sex will not stop the continual distraction in one’s mind but when the sexual urges are strong, it is better to utilize it for spiritual purposes and not suppress it. And through these esoteric experiences gained by tantric union and through other non-sexual tantric techniques, one can anticipate to evolve spiritually in a natural way and will gradually lose mundane interest in sex.

And finally when the mind’s attention is diverted away from sex, it becomes ready for serious spiritual sadhana. That is the prerequisite for greater spiritual evolution.

But a word of caution: Tantra does not preach indiscrimate sexual play. It has set specific rules as to how the sexual energy will be utilized. These rules have to be strictly followed; otherwise one can suffer undesirable experiences associated with the premature awakening of the chakras, which is life-threatening without the direct guidance of a knowledgeable Tantra Master

Persons who would like to practice this sexual aspect of Tantric Sadhana must do so under the able guidance of a Tantra Master, who will lay down strict guidelines on the conduct of their lives and what focus their spiritual sadhana must follow.

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra Master and offers Tantra lessons to select pupils.