The Misterious Tantric Tradition

IT APPEARED ABOUT 7000 YEARS AGO
In the first centuries of the Christian era, a spiritual movement (different form the previous spiritual currents) sprang and manifested on the present Indian territory.

It is associated both to some magical believes and practices and to the most elevated esoteric teachings and initiating revelations. Known under the name of tantrism, the movement is a synthesis of the main hindi currents and spiritual directions. It’s aspects make it fit for all time, through.

Although, well known orientalists, situate the origins of tantrism in the 7th century a.d, evidences and oral traditions prove that it’s origins are much older.

One of the statements demonstrating this is that a spiritual current having such an extraordinary extension and vision on the whole creation, could not appeared and develop so fast, not even in more centuries.

The great hindi thinker Sri Prabhat Rainjar (known under the spiritual name of Sri Anandamurti) asserts, after more studies, that tantra is a very old spiritual science that appeared in India 7000 years ago.

IT IS THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE
The word “tantrism” derives from the sanscrit word “tantra” meaning “system”. An older meaning is that of “fabric”. Tantra comes from the root “an, generally meaning “to straighten”, “to continue”, “to multiply”.

From all the meanings of this word, Mircea Eliade has chosen that of “succession, extension, continuous process”. Thus, tantra could mean “the one that extends knowledge”, “the one that can develop the individual consciousness, so that it reaches the superior levels of acrocosm, that is the infinite creation.

Other meanings of the word tantra are: “body” (as the tantric system insist on body practices), “expansion” (as it amplifies the subtle perception faculties), “rope” (as the connection between the tantric and the worshiped god becomes very close), “harp” (expressing the music and the beauty of the system itself), “veiling” (as it’s doctrines and methods remain secret).

The most common meaning of the word tantra is that of carpet loom, “fabric”, suggesting the existence of two cosmic principles, masculine and feminine, which continuously generate and resorb the whole creation through their permanent interaction.

IT HAS BEEN RECEIVED THROUGH DIVINE REVELATION
The tantric writing have not been conceived by someone but, they have been perceived through vision by the great wise and then, revealed to the mankind. Every writing is characteristic for a certain époque or for a certain cyclic division of the mankind.

The tantric bibliography is extremely rich; they are hundreds of writings named tantra, most of them in sanscrit or Tibetan, belonging both to the hindi and budhist influence.

These dialogues, contain generally teachings and also the ways in which they can be applied. Generally, tantra deals with almost all the subjects concerning the human being.

They also offer many elements and indications about the many worship manners, thus using the science of astrology, the subtle physics of the human being (especially the nervous plexus, hakras, the spiritual discipline breathing control techniques (especially in athaogaor in the physical yoga), the art of the “inner alchemy” (of the ransmutationand ublimationof the energies in the human body).

Some texts are almost exclusively about the mystical erotism; these are veritable treaties of sexology for which, in fact, tantra yoga has become well known, but also wrongly interpreted by most of the westerners.

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