Bhairav Tantra And The Tantric Wisdom Sutras

Bhairav Tantra encompasses several facets of our life. It prescribes a systematic conduct for structuring our learning of Tantra techniques, and on achieving reunion with Supreme Consciousness. In instructing you on Bhairav Tantra, your Tantra teacher aims to help you realize your true Self by focusing your attention to any physical or non-physical object. You will then meditate on this object to the exclusion of everything else.

The art of Tantra is not just about a bunch of postures or meditative techniques; ancient Tantra is, in fact, a way of sadhana or self-realization. Bhairav Tantra addresses the eight steps to awakening or Nirvana, as authoritatively declared by Rishi Patanjali. The eight astangas or subdivisions of awakening our inner consciousness through Tantra practices are yamas, niyamas, asanas, pranayamas, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

The Tantric yamas teach us conscientious and interpersonal behavior. While instructing you in these, your Tantra teacher will direct you to avoid untruthfulness, thieving and avarice. Ahimsa (or non-violence and kindness towards all living beings) is the first step towards self-realization. Communicating what is right and moderation in all the Tantra sadhanas is revered and sublime.

The Tantric niyamas teach us what inner values we should have towards ourselves: flexibility, cleanliness, peacefulness, devotedness and austerity. They teach us to always abide by discipline and accept the Supreme Intelligence that exists beyond ourselves, and to accept our limitations in relation to this Supreme Intelligence (or God).

In the Tantric asanas, the Tantra master has us focus on Tantra posture practice session, aligning the body and integrating tantric breath to attain higher consciousness of mind, body and soul. The mind needs to be conscious and at ease, without stress, and must be able to observe the responses of the body and breath to varied Tantra positions. These minimise the dietary and climatic influences on the body.

Pranayama in Tantra is highly advanced in its restraint and control of the tantric breath, dynamically stimulating and balancing our mind and body.

Pratyahara through Tantra is the relaxation of our sensory faculties so that nothing can disturb or unfocus the mind.

Tantra Dharana is the power to channel the mind towards a preferred objective and center in on that exclusively.

Tantra Dhyana (or meditation) is the power to evolve concentrated interactions on what we attempt to realize in Tantra.

Finally, Tantric Samadhi constitutes the supreme state of Self-realization in Tantra.

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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.

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, Sex And Super-Consciousness

Now we are going to open a secret world for you, a world so completely different from the one that you know, it will amaze you with its simplicity. Today, whenever you are offered anything, and you buy it, more often than not you are disappointed after the initial excitement. What you thought was great turned out to be not-so-great – a broken promise. Stop a while, take a moment and think that over. And let me tell you that the same holds true for your sex life.

The Age Of The Quick-Fix

There was a time when life was simpler; it revolved around your family and loved ones. Heck, maybe even just your TV. Today the world is a global village and our lives are constantly bombarded with brands, new products, quick-fix pills and images of success and happiness if we buy into the whole advertising machinery.

We live on manufactured expectations that are so cleverly crafted that we do not even realize how unrealistic, false and psychologically degrading they are. You don’t wear this brand? You’re a loser. You don’t have a hot girlfriend or a boyfriend? You’re such a loser! You don’t have an ipod? Man, how can you even have a smile on your face! You have no reason to be happy! You don’t party every night? You’re so dull that nobody would want to be your friend.

Directly or indirectly, these messages hit us every single day, every single moment, from the moment your day begins till you go to sleep. Consciously or unconsciously, your mind absorbs these messages … and you begin to think that everybody is having a better time than you are. Today, we are taken in by these images, by these insinuations that without this and without that, our lives are meaningless. And sex tops the list as one of the tools used to keep people hooked onto lifestyle products.

I’m indignant to see that Tantra is often used as a buzzword for selling sex and lifestyle to people. Let me tell all of you who may have encountered such people, that they are highly inauthentic. They know that sex can be used to gain attention, that people can be convinced to pay exorbitant sums of money, and the promise of sex can be used to hold one’s attention long enough to swindle him.

Actually, we need not even go that far. Viagra and similar drugs are being peddled as the be-all and end-all solution when it comes to enhancing one’s sex life. Then there are massage oils, clit creams, oysters … the list is endless – so let’s not even start on that.

Viagra has been known to cause the complete collapse of the male sexual equipment after a point of time. Each sexual supplement has been created keeping certain uniform criteria in mind, disregarding the fact that each person has different sexual capacities due to their genetic make-up and lifestyles. No two people can have the same drive and thus, no two people can have the same reactions to supplements when taken over a certain period of time.

These pills and creams are, in truth, meant for people with sexual disorders: for women who suffer from frigidity and for men who suffer from erectile dysfunction. However, this percentage is small. Not more than 10% of the world’s population suffers from these two disorders.

We are not doctors, we do not claim to have special knowledge in their treatments; we are not telling you to stop taking your medication (if you do), but we are saying that you can prevent this. A man suffers from erectile dysfunction because he feels insecure about getting it up, whereas a woman suffers from frigidity because she feels unloved. And to advertise their drugs as lifestyle necessities is near-criminal!

Do you know the damage that can be inflicted upon your organs if you use these pills for a sufficient amount of time? The sudden rush of blood that is caused by Viagra can lead to extending the penis beyond its accustomed level, and ultimately cause its collapse. Once that level is reached, no improvement can be gained. The muscles are damaged permanently and we do not want such a thing to happen to anyone.

Tantra has remedies for everything that ails your life. Start early and the benefits will make their presence felt quicker and prevent any disorders that might have been coming your way. I have experienced the philosophy of Tantra, and what this philosophy can do for you, in the physical, material and spiritual planes no pill, no thesis, no creams can.

Tantra And The Mind-Body Connection

There is one important thing that needs to be said here – that no external substance can ignite desire in you. This is what Tantra says. There is no such delicacy, pill, herb or medicine that can arouse you other than the organ between your two ears … not the one between your legs. Sex lies between the two ears, not between the two legs.

Tantra advocates something that we are quick to forget – a mind-body connection. That, my friends, is the only thing that can give us that awesome sex we crave. Our organs are connected to the brain, and we need to use that brain to enhance our sensations. Why don’t people use this connection given to us by nature to enhance their lives? This is because people don’t like to take responsibility for their failures. They don’t want to accept that they fail to work on themselves. They feel safer when they blame an external factor – and that’s where they go wrong. Why not carry the flame of self-belief within you? Viagra and its counterparts are so transient in their effects. With the right learning you can carry that divine ecstasy around with you all the time.

Ah, I know what you are thinking – why are we talking about sex here? Frankly speaking, I am talking about something that is going to add a new dimension to your life – the mind-body connection. My purpose is to make you understand the way sex is portrayed in the media. That understanding helps you break free from their spell and to help you realize that you do not need them.

Sex And Spirituality

I believe that Tantric Sex is the real sex; it is the highest level of pleasure and consciousness available to us in this physical world, and it is a shame not to enjoy it more often. Don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating fast and loose sex, but a solid connection that should exist between your mind and body, and you and your partner. That connection turns the act of sex into a moment of sadhana, or spiritual ecstasy.

Tantric sex is an art, almost akin to splashing vivid happy colours of every hue imaginable onto a stark white canvas. Each hue represents a different nuance in the dance of love. The connection is so good that one can become like a Picasso painting masterpieces in a frenzy of creative expression!

Tantra may not be only about sex, but it definitely acknowledges sex as the highest form of creative expression through pleasure, by which one gets a glimpse of what it must feel like to attain nirvana or salvation. The philosophy of Tantra can help you harmonise your wealth and desire with your consciousness and salvation. This is the truth and this is what you need.

The Upanishads tell a tale about a frog who lived in a well. It knew nothing beyond the well and was quite happy with it. One day another frog jumped into his well and was shocked to see the tiny place the first frog called home. Even when he told the first frog that there is a world outside his well, the second frog refused to believe him.

The second frog even offered to show him how big the world can be, but the first frog held on to his argument stubbornly. Finally the second frog left. He left and saw the world and had a myriad of experiences. The first frog sat smugly in his well, smothering that niggling doubt the second frog had aroused, and saw nothing, knew nothing. Are you the first frog? I hope not.

Most people are startled by the philosophy that states that life’s every moment should be a moment of ecstasy. To the average mind, Sex and Spirituality are as far apart as chalk and cheese. To a tantra expert, not so. For each requires a higher level of conscious awareness …

Can a man perform sexually while he is asleep? Can he when he is unconscious? Tantra explains the human mind completely in a simple, direct fashion. All it asks is that you learn it and enjoy practicing it!

How To Learn Tantra

Just picking up self-help books from bookstores is not enough; you have to adapt the methods to your life. You’ll get advice from all corners, but if you do not exercise your consciousness in these matters, then none of it will work for you, rather, they will work against you.

Tantra is an artistic science as well as a scientific art. The philosophy outlines a path through which you can enhance each and every part of your life, not just your sex life. And, yes, Tantra believes that sex is associated with divinity. If you have mastered Tantric Sex, then you have reached the highest stage of consciousness of your earthly body, and are ready to move on to bigger and better things.

Ancient India knew this; the Kama Sutra is derived from Tantric practices. But thereafter society has only been in denial. Denial because the puritanical viewpoint was that human beings had to suffer in order to learn and progress. Spiritual enhancement was identified with sorrow, penitence, abstinence and the denial of every good feeling the body might experience. But Tantra knows otherwise; the true follower of Tantra knows otherwise. I know that without desire, without enjoyment, one can never learn, never move forward.

There are more than eight million Tantric mudras and their permutations and combinations that can lead to a highly fulfilling and satisfying life. As a teacher of tantra, I have learned how to incorporate these into my life. You can learn them too; for you deserve to be happy, truly happy, and we are here to teach you.

Why waste time and energy on pills, creams and oils that can only give the illusion of pleasure when you can have the real thing? Enlightenment is your birthright – and we will give it to you.

I have been a tantra teacher for a long time now, so I can help you in your quest for a better life. If India spells exotica to you, I invite you to revel in that exotica. Divine freedom and ecstasy will spill over into every aspect of your life with time.

These practices not only help you achieve divinity but also enhance your relationships, fuel your career, enrich your familial ties and make you fall in love with life. Stop living like an animal where you eat, work, have sex and fall asleep, not even conscious of your own breathing.

Being in the maze of life without awareness and consciousness will lead you nowhere. Come find your way out of that maze into the divine light.

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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.

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra

Shakti Tantra: Worshipping The Feminine

The symbolic union of male and female energies within as a meditative form, and expanding to all levels of consciousness, thereby unveiling the supreme reality of creation, is the basis of Tantra.

It unifies the masculine and feminine aspects within us, to help us transcend into the oneness of the Divine.

The principle of the Feminine is explained in Shakti Tantra as; Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu, Shakti Rupena Samstita, Namastaseh, namastaseh, namastaseh, namo namaha  (Prostrations unto Thee, O Divine Mother Goddess, who dwells in all matter in the form of Shakti).

Devi Rahasyam states that Shakti is MahaKali, the great Goddess, creating the three principles or gunas: sattvas, rajas and tamas. They create the fabric of the universe.

Tantra Rahasya explains Tantra as Tanyate vistaryate jnanam anemna iti tantram  (Tantra is the divine scripture by which the light of advanced spiritual knowledge is spread).

Lord Shiva is considered the founder of Tantra. At its heart is the philosophy of the Upanishads.

The Agama shastras are the backbone of all rituals. Agama comprises: Jnana (knowledge); Yoga (meditation); Kriya (consecration of idols, rituals); Karya (ways of worship).

MahaKali is considered the foremost aspect of the Divine Goddess: pure energy, pure spirit. She is worshipped in any of Her 10 aspects: Kali, Tara, Shodasi, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagala, Matangi and Kamala.

Tantric scriptures Kaulavalinirnaya Tantra, Niruttara Tantra and the Rudrayamala
Tantra  tell us that the universe we are a part of is Brahman: the infinite Supreme Consciousness, manifest through the cosmic union of male and female energies of Shiva, Eternal Consciousness, and Shakti, feminine energy.

Thus Tantra unites all of reality, when everything attained on the physical level also crosses into the spiritual level, as integral to each other.

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Subhojit Dasgupta is a teacher of Tantra