Kamakhya sakti peetham tantra

SEX is offered to the Goddess in all mother religions. Why is it so?

1. Sex in all forms is enjoyable. All enjoyment is divine. 

2. Sex indulged with control makes two people one in spirit. 

3. Sex connects people at the deepest level, making friends for life. 

4. Sex is the highest offering any one can make, of himself/herself. 

5. Sex occurs only when shame is surrendered. Thus sex reduces ego.

6. Sex can create a new life. All life is sacred. 

7. Sex repressed becomes neuroses. Neuroses are dangerous to society.

Practicing sacred sex was the universal religion of all people. Till patriarchal religions came and tabooed it suppressing mother religions.

Hindus worship Siva lingam which is an unmistakable symbol of coitus. Worshiping coitus gives equal importance to both Mother and Father. We choose to worship the living vulva as the Mother of all powers. We choose to worship the living penis as the Father of all. In worship there can be no hurt feelings or injury. If there are, it cannot be worship.

Worship of genitals eliminates neuroses, the source of most problems. Puja is foreplay. Giving and receiving much pleasure. It should never become heavy, but be fun and thoroughly enjoyable.

 

FAMILY OF SIVA

 

Siva the linga has three forms. A form without desire: Sava, corpse like. The second form is erect. It is called Bhairav. In the third form the glans penis is fully exposed. It is Ananda Bhairav.

 

Siva rides the bull called Nandi, the testes. The bull symbolises virility. We first touch the testes of the bull lovingly, energizing the lingam. Then look at the Siva lingam which is now erect with desire.

Vulva is the mother of all. It is the Shakti that gives birth to all. The temple of Siva is the vulva, called garbha. Before we go inside the temple of Siva, we ring the bell. The bell is a small female linga, the clitoris. It is the little son of Siva, Kumara.

 Kumara teaches Siva the sound Om, the sound of the ringing bell.
 The pleasure in clitoris, heard by the penis, is the source of all.
 Energised by Nandi, the dancing Siva enters the temple of the mother.

Gouri the vulva, is the temple of Siva. It is called Svadhisthana chakra. This is where Gouri is worshipped.  Inside the vagina, the entrance to the womb is the cervix. The head of Siva rests there in coitus.

 

Waters of life gush out with force from the head of Siva, the tumescent penis. Cervix is the seat of Ganapati. It is called Adhara, the support for life. Waters of life touch Ganapati, whose seed syllable is Gan, and go inside, ga. That is why the sacred waters of life are called Ganga.

 

Thus is the family of Siva is explained in relation to the first two chakras. Here actual life manifests. Here is creativity at its fullest potential. We do not know how to make limbs, or to put life into them.

That is the work of the Goddess. You are the sons and daughters of God and Goddess. Made in their image.

Amritananda

 

 

The goal of yoga

Guruji: The goal of yoga is to still the mind

Mind works in two ways. Feeling and Thinking.
If we still one, the other part is awake.

1. KAVACHA stills the feelings. Become aware of each part of body and relax it. Cover all parts. The body, and with it, the feelings get stilled. But the thinking part is active. Freed from the body, the mind floats away from the body, does astral travel, becomes aware of different places and events and comes back to it after some time. After this we understand that we have an astral body along with the physical. Kavacham means covering the whole body

2. KUNDALA stills verbal thinking. Become aware of each thought and relax it, saying, "I will attend to you later, not now". Keep your attention solely on your body and start moving it. First locate a point of discomfort,move a little away from it, see if it is less. If it increases, reverse the direction. By repeately coming back to the same point and moving on the border of pain and pleasure, try to remove all stresses. Your body becomes flexible and starts feeling the movements only. Commit to get rid of your inhibitions. Feel free to swim like a fish, jump like a monkey, crawl like a snake, or fly like a bird. As you become aware of the movements, just observe where and how they are felt. Dont try to name these feelings nor that they are good or bad. They are all parts of you. Since you now have a language, you may feel these movements of energy as relating to hunger, sex, power, caring, communicating, time control or waves of love to the whole world, which you feel is a part of you. They are all forms of one single energy; they get name from where they are seen or felt. These raw snake like energies are called Kundalini.

3. SAHAJA: A still mind exists, even if it has turbulence in parts of it. The still mind is like the deep of the ocean, thoughts or feelings are movements of waves in it. Wavering mind and still mind both together is the natural state. Being natural is called the Sahaja.
Sa is the visible world around you which consists of energy, matter and time: Ha is your own unmoving awareness. Breath is the mantra called Hamsa which connects the inside consciousness with the world outside. Keeping awareness on the breath, and being passive to both thoughts and feelings is the way to still the mind naturally. This is Yoga.
Being in Yoga does not mean that thoughts and feelings don't exist. It means that that the practitioner is identifying stillness with dynamic world. Yoga means a timeless state, where the idea of before and after, cause and effect, action and inaction are perceived to be the same. It means that space and time are alike, unmoving. Yoga is the state of being united with god and expanding into the whole.


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Vijnanabhairava Tantra 155b:

hakāreṇa bahiryāti sakāreṇa viśet punaḥ | 

haṁsahaṁsetyamuṁ mantraṁ jīvo japati sarvadā ||

"By exhaling with a sound SA and inhaling with a sound HA, the Soul constantly repeats Hamsa mantra"

Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta [4.86]:

evaṃ yogāṅgamiyati tarka eva na cāparam
antarantaḥ parāmarśapāṭavātiśayāya saḥ

"Among the various mechanisms of yoga only has power - comprehension, that consistently penetrates deeper and deeper."

ahiṃsā satyamasteyabrahmacaryāparigrahāḥ |
iti pañca yamāḥ sākṣātsaṃvittau nopayoginaḥ || 4-87 ||

tapaḥ prabhṛtayo ye ca niyamā yattathāsanam |
prāṇāyāmāśca ye sarvametadbāhyavijṛmbhitam || 4-88 ||

"Five yama principles and 5 niyama principles, asanas and pranayama do not bring any benefit to Consciousness, they are simply external forms, which can not affect it"

cittapralayabandhena pralīne śaśibhāskare || 4-89 ||
prāpte ca dvādaśe bhāge jīvāditye svabodhake |

"When the sun and the moon are absorbed as a result of dissolution of the mind [of a sadhaka] in the Shiva, the only and pure knowledge, then he/she achieves Bhaga"

guruvākyaparāmarśasadṛśe svavimarśane |
prabuddhe tadvipakṣāṇāṃ vyudāsaḥ pāṭhacintane || 4-100 ||

"In reading [Kaula Granthas] and constant contemplation [of our true Nature], our Consciousness, harmoniously built by the words of our Gurudev, undoubtedly becomes awakened". 

The Three Granthis - Guruji's Commentary

 

Question: How to define, because we are working on the chakras, for example working on the base chakra Mūlādhāra chakra how to understand that we have worked it out that it's done that she basically melted that we have passed this level?

Guruji: It’s not that you are in one particular chakra, stuck there, it’s like a flute, you know, they have so many different holes. You close some holes, you produce one music, so life is… you know, you're moving at different levels at different chakras at different times. When you are in love you are in Anāhata chakra, you don't stay there, then you feel lack of power you move to this center [i.e. Maṇipūra]. You keep going up and down, can say probably most of your time you are spending in near about one chakra. Like in music you may be working in the lower frequencies for some time and then suddenly may move to a different scale and you don't stay there. Life is the music, she is generated by moving in different chakras. So how much time you are spending at each chakra depends upon what your general tendencies are, which you can define. Beyond that, you can function as a human being very occasionally taking trips to this place [i.e. viśuddhi chakra] but this [i.e. Anāhata chakra] is the safest place, it is tender, loving and compassionate place. But you need aggression, you need aggression to go ahead in life, you want to succeed in business, it has a cutting edge, it’s a competition, it's not cooperation, it's not love. So you see, you need the negative energy also but you got to use it in positive ways. For example, it's not good to have greed, but you also realize the difference in capitalism and socialism. Capitalism works because the greed of one man gives jobs to a thousand people, socialism says everybody is the same and it does not work out as well. So you need the aggressive part also; the Kālī energy is equally needed as the Sundarī energy.

These are knots, it means you go into the loops around them not knowing how to get out of it. You want to untie a thread and you can not undevelop that easily. The three knots are Brahmā granthi, Viṣṇu granthi and Rudra granthi.

Brahma Granti is the identification that I am so and so, that I am my body. All the identifications associated with – only if the body exists… if the body does not exist I won't exist, these kinds of securities. The lower two chakras together, the search for continuance in the physical body and also through the progeny. So these are two base security centers that constitute one entanglement.

The second entanglement [i.e. Viṣṇu granthi] comes from power and love. That my living is confined to or constitutes my relationships, whether the winner as a loser; the giver, or the receiver. So I live in my thoughts. If I don't have thoughts I won’t live. The second mistaken idea. This is called the Viṣṇu granthi.

The third knot is concerned with life itself. The idea that I will die; I will not exist if I die. That’s the last one, it’s galled Rudra Granthi. So that you have an existence beyond the physical body, the mental body. When you cross these two bodies then you have the causal body and you live in that, that once you recognize, then this knot is unraveled.

This is a knot [i.e. Rudra granthi] of space and time, and this is a knot [i.e. Viṣṇu granthi] of love and power, the base knot is of sex and fear. They might disappear, they may loosen their hold on you, you won't worry to the same degree. For example cancer in the case of a normal person supposing suddenly getting a pain in the chest, you won't take notice, you continue to sleep. But if there is an anxiety-riddled person, he will start focusing his attention on that, it pulls him and he starts imagining things, and then he gets into a panic and can't get to sleep. The same trigger affects people in different ways, in one way in which it is escalating into an ever-growing thing, so it depends very much on the degree that you have achieved in withdrawing from a situation and being able to look at it from a distance from a perspective; if you have not learned that then you'll be more prone to anxiety and be tied into these knots.

Devipuram, March 2014

“I am unlimited! I am the cosmos!”

 

(from "Goddess and Guru"):

“Despite the impression of some, Guruji isn’t some kind of superhuman,” Alok said recently. “In fact, what I really relished about him is the fact that he was a normal human being, with the same limitation sand failings as the rest of us. To assume that Guruji never got sick, or felt down or upset about things that’s not correct.”

He recalled the time when a woman asked Guruji to counsel her and her husband when they were experiencing serious marital difficulties. The attempt was a debacle—the husband became hostile, openly insulting Guruji and mocking the entire attempt.
“Soon after this, Guruji and I went out for an evening stroll,” Alok said. “He seemed quite dejected. He told me that he really wanted to see this couple live happily together. It was clear that the encounter was weighing on his mind and making him feel quite down.”

All at once, however, Guruji stopped his ruminations and said “Chod do!” (Hindi for “Leave it!” or “Let it go!”) Then he looked up at the sky and intoned, “I am unlimited! I am the cosmos!”
“This seemingly simple affirmation changed the whole atmosphere,” Alok recalled. “A dramatic shift took place. Guruji was his usual self once again. He then turned to me and said, ‘If you look at bhakti yoga, jnana yoga or any of these practices, there is only one underlying principle that makes them work —and that is vairagya, detachment. The ability to detach and let go when needed is very, very, very
important.’

“Whenever needed,” Alok concluded, “Guruji was able to connect with the cosmic force and not be limited by all the things that we as humans typically suffer from—pain, pleasure, all of that. For me, that is really where he really contributed to our evolution and growth as human and spiritual beings. He
showed us a benchmark. He showed us a way it can be done.”

Can we keep Devi in home and do puja?

People ask "can we keep Devi in home and do puja?"

She is already there in you as life. So the question means, "Can I keep life be in me and make myself happy?

Can I stay in my home?"

Surely you can. Can you do puja? The question is saying, can you be happy? Why not? You can do puja, Devi puja most definitely. It is for your own prana, life, that puja is really talking place. So go ahead, by all means. Power flows to you by loving yourself. Power also flows to whomever you love. It is as simple as that. Puja is expressing your love, embracing all life and yourself too.

Although life is one, it manifests different powers in different limbs. Life in my eyes is the power to see, in ears to hear, in tongue to taste and talk, in skin to touch and feel, in hands to grasp, in feet to run, in genitals to reproduce, in breasts to give milk and so on. If life is missing in a foot like in a polio patient, the patient cannot walk. So power comes from life, power is life. So Devi is called Shakti, which means power.

The concept of Shakti pithas flows from this idea. There is the great puranic story of How Sati, the adorable wife of Siva got angry when Her father who did not invite Siva for a fire ritual he was doing. He insulted Siva saying," He is the erect male genital. What is so great about worshipping it?" So Sati got angry and left Her body by Yoga. Siva hears this, becomes angry, and keeping Her corpse on his shoulders, is out to destroy the world. Gods pray to Vishnu to save the worlds from Siva's anger. Vishnu sends his discus, which cuts the body of Sati into various pieces. They all fell at different places, and became Shakti pithas, where power lives.

There are two lessons we have to draw from this great story. That in every limb, there is a Shakti pitha, a seat of power. We can access, arouse and enhance this power through loving attention.

The second lesson is that when Siva is insulted, he becomes angry, his Shakti becomes anger because Siva has no outlet for expressing His love ( his wife, the yoni is dead) . His anger is capable of destroying the world. Sex frustrated from expression destroys the world. Most of our neuroses have to do with suppressing our subconscious desires in sex. One of them is in seeking variety, which goes against social norms. That is why we had to suppress it in the first instance; making us think onething inside but say another thing. We become fragmented. We want variety in food, dresses, perfumes,and environment. Why not in sex? Is sex also not like hunger? Is it not a desire to continue beyond our body, nay, life itself, a seeking for immortality? Hunger nourishes the physical body; pleasures of bed nourish our mental body by bathing in milk of compassion and love. So we should treat sex with love and adoration, not with contempt. We should never couple sex with violence and suppression. That is asking for trouble. Even a dog becomes angry if you tie it. Won't a human become angry and aggressive if hand-cuffed? Tantra releases the tensions in safe ways without harming society.

Hindu culture places a high value to worship of genitals in the form of Siva the phallus and Shakti, the yoni. Most ancient cultures in the world accepted sex as sacred to Goddess. There was sacred sex everywhere, and orgies were offered to mother earth to replenish her productive powers. We consider eternal intercourse as a symbolic of peace, pleasure and bliss. We incorporate desire for sex, Kama, as the third great object of life; the others being Duty, Abundance and Liberation. Liberation is like living in an eternal orgasm, like Siva Shakti, or Brahma's ananda, the bliss of utter creativity. It is two satisfied lovers Shakti and Shiva in embrace discussing and solving problems of the world peacefully.

It is a paradigm for modern society worth considering. Where do we go and how do we want to go there?

Let us realize once for all that no bullet ever healed a wound and no bomb has ever made a hospital. To solve problems, we need to be in love and respect, not hate and disrespect. We need a technology for peace, enough of technology for war. Penis or Pistol? Penis sprinkles life giving seed, Pistol kills it. Shooting the seed of knowledge is preferable to shooting a deadly bullet. Prurient societies are non-violent societies. That is what Vatsyayana said, that is what Freud said. Wisdom lies in the golden mean; neither prurience nor violence, but bhakti, expressing our deepest love to the Goddess of life and erotic sentiment. There are two big industries in the world: that of blue films and blue murder. We have yet to discover Tantra which makes sex as worship and war on poverty.

We live in a Tantric age, the age of suicidal technology. Technology is tantra. Use it wisely, achieve peace. Abuse it, bring calamity. The choice is clear. Which way humanity goes remains to be seen.

Amritananda

Our Will or God's Will? - a Conversation with Guruji

Question: Can you talk a little bit about “my will” and “thy will”. If we're co-creators or we help create our reality but there's also some other surrendering to the higher force as if destiny is already at play?

Guruji: It's easy to go with the current and it's hard to go against the current. If you are going in the directions that the current is taking you’ll reach faster. It means you arrange your ideas and intentions, the intentions of the environment… So you tune first into the current. What does the current want to do? If you are going with that, then it's no more your individual will, it is the will of the current. And so - “thy will be done.”

How do you tune into the current? [It’s] not what I want to do, but what the general set of things around me want to do. Try to get out of myself, right? and listen more than talk. If I’m talking, I am talking about my will, if I'm listening to what others are saying and trying to understand them, then you are better off.

But people talk in different languages hard to find the make common current, but usually, it is… there are some strong currents like based on language – I want my people speaking my language to prosper, I want my family to prosper. And there's a pretty strong connection there. The language connects people and divides people also. Cultures connect people and divide people. Tribes connect people and divide people. Everything has got a dual thing. So to find the stronger currents you have to go to the deeper layers of human consciousness, which is going beyond… and there I find that usually the ability to understand more and suit my goals to a new understanding and going forward with that seems to be the goal of everyone. We call it empowerment. Everyone wants to be happy, everyone wants to be friendly, everyone wants love, these are the currents that are common to whatever language you speak, whatever nationality you belong to. You want more of peace and less of violence. The hippies were right I think – make love, not war.

Devipuram, February 2014 

Guruji's favorite memories

 

This was a Narrated Slideshow that Guruji used to share at his seminars and workshops.