Tantra is the universal way of life, connecting mind,body & soul into living life as a whole. Schisms of Good & Evil, Pure & Impure , Yin & Yang, Matter & Spirit are done away with as unnecessary barriers to a direct experience of our consciousness. It is the spiritual practices & form of worship which aim at liberation from rebirth. With great Finesse Tantra uses material reality for spiritual unfoldment but still in Urban India it is mostly connected with frivolity because of horrific news reports of criminal activities like human sacrifice , rape & murder by so called Tantriks etc , as are old wives tales of black magic where the villian is invariably an evil tantrik.
Bollywood films and TV serials that portray tantriks as bizarre, crazy and villainous have reinforced this negative image. So that to a lot of us, Tantra feels like a cross between voodoo, the occult, and sorcery—bad stuff done by evil people.
Our Western counterparts who follow eastern spiritualism have a different association with tantra and nine times out of ten it will be connected to Sex . When you type tantra in google most of the websites that come up offer 'sacred sex' or there are pictures of couples having sex in acrobatic positions. So what is tantra really ? What best describes its practices sex or sorcery ? Since reality is never black or white but a synthesis of the two there are several shades of tantra that belie a narrow view.
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