Tantra: A direct approach to existence

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

Tantra vision is one of the greatest vision ever dreamt by man .It is a religion without any priest, without any temple, without any organization. It is a religion which does not destroy the individual rather respects the individuality the most.

The vision of tantra is a direct approach to existence, reality or God, whatever we call it. It is an approach towards what is.It has no meditator,no middle man  and no priest and the moment the priest enters ,it goes corrupted. It is not a religion in the ordinary sense for the simple reason that it is an individual approach towards reality. It  is tremendously rebellious that trusts not in any organization, in any community but trusts in the individual.

Tantra trusts in the body what no other religion does. When a religion trusts in the body it creates a split between the individual and his body as a result the individual becomes the enemy of the body and starts destroying the wisdom of it. It not only believes in the body but also in the senses and their energy in total. It doesnot deny anything, but transforms everything.

Tantra is the way of intelligence, not of intellect. It does not answer any question, it does not explain anything at all; it is non explanatory. It is not a questioning, it is a quest. It is not an enquiry about the truth, it is an inquiry into the truth. It is to go beyond thinking .That’s why the love orgasm is a symbol for the ultimate reality. The reason is that only in love orgasm; one looses one’s mind for a few moments. That is the only state of no-mind available to an ordinary man, the only possibility to have a glimpse of the reality. It does not stay long but still that is the only possibility for one to have a contact with the reality. Otherwise one is always surrounded by one’s thoughts and the thoughts explain nothing .All explanations about the reality are simply nonsense. If one really wants to know what the unknown is , one has to drop out the mind and disappear into existence . That is the way of tantra.

Tantra is not a philosophy. It is absolutely existential not the existentialism of the western philosophers like Sartre, Camus or others. That existentialism is a philosophy , a philosophy of existence but not the way of tantra.The difference is quite vast. The existential philosophers of the west stumble upon anguish, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, meaninglessness, purposelessness. All these are negatives but tantra stumbles upon all that is beautiful, joyful and blissful.Tantra says ;existence is an orgasm ,an eternal orgasm and the ecstasy of the orgasm is going on for ever and forever.

To attain the vision of tantra the first thing is the body, the base where one is grounded. To be against the body is to be miserable, to be schizophrenic and to create a hell for oneself. Of course one is more than the body but that ‘more’ will come later when the body is transcended. So to transcend the body the body is needed at first. To be disrespectful to the body is to be losing contact with the reality. Tantra therefore teaches reverence to the body :a deep love respect and gratitude for the body as it is the greatest of mysteries of existence. So the first thing to learn is to respect the body and to unlearn all the nonsense that has been taught against the body, otherwise one will never turn on ,turn in and turn beyond. The body is the beginning and to be purified from all repressions, a  great catharsis is needed for the body.

The second thing that Tantra says is  that if one goes on finding new ways every day, the life will remain a thrill and it is an adventure. One will always be curious to know and be in the verge of seeking the unknown and the unfamiliar. When one will always be in the verge of seeking, one cannot become dull or bored. Learning to do things in a new way is to free oneself from the old habits as much as possible. It speaks not at all about imitation rather to be innovative and to have the signature of one on everything that one does. It brings individuality into things because to imitate is to miss the life. To be imitative is to be neurotic and the only way to be sane in the world is to be individual, to be authentically individual and to be one’s own being.

The third thing in tantra is that the body should purified of repression , the senses have to be made alive again and the mind has to drop neurotic thinking, obsessive thinking and to learn ways of silence. Whenever possible, to put the mind aside.

Now one will say that it is easy to say to put the mind aside but is it possible? To this question tantra says that let the mind be filled with thoughts but one is ti be dethatched and watch the thoughts that comes. there is no need to be worried about it-just watch. Just be the observer and by and by one will see

That silent gap has started coming. When one will be aware that the gap has started coming .one will be aware of the watcher. Now watch the watcher and the a new gap will start coming-the watcher will start disappearing. Just like the thoughts One day ,the thinker will start disappearing and then the real silence will arise. In this state both subject and object have gone and one has entered into the beyond. When these things have happened, body is purified of all repressions, senses freed from dullness, mind liberated from obsessive thinking, and a vision arises in one free from all illusions-that is the tantra vision , a direct approach to existence.

Lecturer-in-English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha, INDIA

ORGASM:A GLIMPSE OF THE BEYOND

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

The whole mankind is obliged to acknowledge the fact that man has remained the master for centuries making woman the slave .Woman has been auctioned, sold and sometimes has been burned alive The last inhuman act that could be done has been done to woman which constitute half of the humanity. Woman kind suffers a lot of sickness till date even in this so-called civilization and culture. This psychologically sick culture does not even acknowledge and recognize this sickness. The first step of treatment is to recognize that this so-called civilization and culture is sick-the unnaturality of relationship between man and woman.

The tremendous problem in man woman relationship is that man has the capacity for only one orgasm whereas woman has the capacity for multiple orgasms at the same time. This fact must be acknowledged at first sincerely. No problem would be there if monogamy had not been imposed upon them. It seems it is not the intention of nature because if it is not so, woman would not have been capacitated with multiple orgasms. Man knows this fact that a woman is more powerful than man in energy level it is the simple reason as to why man is afraid of woman. If man triggers one orgasm in woman, then a woman is ready at least for more than half a dozen orgasms and man is incapable of satisfying the woman. It is for this reason man always seeks a way not to give the woman even one orgasm and even to take away from her the conception that she can have the possibility of  an orgasm.

The second fact to be accepted is that the sex of man is just genital and therefore local but to the woman her sexuality is spread all over her body. It takes a longer time for the woman to be warmed up ,and before the woman gets wormed up ,the man is finished. For thousands of years, woman around the world have lived and died without knowing the greatest gift of nature that is the orgasmic joy.

Scientifically,sex should not be taken seriously because to give the woman the whole range of orgasm  some scientific vibrator can be used but the problem is that if scientific vibrator is used  it can give  as many  orgasms as  a woman is capable of, if once the woman knows it the man’s organ looks so poor that she may choose a scientific vibrator than a male partner. So in fear of it ,the simplest way man has found is to suppress the woman.

For o biological reproduction orgasm is not a necessity but for a spiritual growth, orgasm is a necessity. It is the orgasmic experiences of bliss given to mankind as a result of which man could know for the first time that there is the possibility of a boundless bliss beyond it. It is from this only the idea of meditation came in the early days and man started to search this bliss permanently through meditation. From this spark of this bliss for a very short time, man looked for something better more intense, more vital. Orgasm is nature’s indication that one is certain within oneself of a tremendous amount of bliss. One orgasm simply gives a taste of it and you go on searching for it.

Two things happen in orgasm; that is the mind seizes to be completely and for a moment it becomes a no-mind and the second thing is that the single moment of orgasmic joy is so intense and so fulfilling that it is equal to eternity. These are the two things that gives one the greatest pleasure possible naturally. It is also a simple and logical conclusion that if one can stop the chattering of the mind and mind becomes silent in its abyss everything stops –even time-and then one is free from sexuality. One need not depend on other person, man or woman and one is capable of attaining this state of meditation alone. Orgasm cannot be more than momentary, but meditation can be spread over the whole twenty-four hours. A Gautama Buddha lives every moment of his life in orgasmic joy –it has nothing to do with sex.

History shows that the maximum enlightened are men and very few women become enlightened. Among other reasons the most important reason is that they never had any taste of orgasm and prevented from spiritual growth. It is a birthright of both man and woman and one day woman shall wrest her birth right from her weaker counterpart.

Lecturer-in-English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha, INDIA

NAMING : THE FIRST PSEUDO - CORRUPTION

Dr. Sudhansu Kumar Dash

            As we understand, naming anything helps us to communicate our feelings to others and we identify ourselves with that feeling to give it a strength. We think we have understood it by giving a name to it. But by giving anything a name we have categorized the object of the feeling without looking at it more closely. But actually without giving anything a name we are forced to look at it and we look at it without a preoccupied mind as if we have never seen it before.

            Naming is a very convenient way of disposing anything at our hand. But actually by naming something we give it a label and destroy it immediately. The corruption of nature by man starts here and then moves in a cumulative process. If we do not name anything may be a person, race, flower, feeling etc. we are certainly forced to look into it most intimately and then it is much difficult to corrupt it or kill it. So naming, the label, definitely destroys the thing than helping it to survive. One can destroy a label quite easily but without the label one is forced to consider ones uncorrupted relationship with it.

By a convenient disposal of a thing by naming means either accepting or denying, condemning or justifying, loving or hating, but all are a short of corruption to the thing in some way of the other. If condemning is corrupting the thing justifying also as the deposit is equally true.

A vital question therefore is why do we name ? Is it essential ? Where from the tendency to name anything comes from ? We think that there is a centre from which we were acting, judging and naming. That centre is nothing but memory that has enclosed innumerable impressions of the past. This centre feeds us the present and we start the naming of things. As long as this centre exists there is a preoccupation of mind and understanding the thing is impossible. It is because we felt to understand a thing as it is, we feel helpless and then this helplessness escapes him to corrupting the thing by naming it. This naming comes from the memory the centre of various experiences. So a question comes if we do not use the words can we think ? As mind is nothing but innumerable experience of pleasure and pain it is pleasure and pain that are verbalized through words. But it is sure that the experience of pleasure or pain is not the word ‘pleasure’ or ‘pain’ . So the important thing is that words are become important and not the substance and we live on words only. Because the word has become important, we fail to know what that feeling is and the reality hidden behind the label or word. As we identify with the word, we fail to proceed beyond it.

Certainly when all the labels, forms, opinions are removed, there is an emptiness. The emptiness nothing but the sense of fear of being a ‘nothing’ . We are afraid of facing it. This is the core, the centre where the word is dissolved. After the resolution, there is a transformation of the Pseudo-Being.

What happens when we look at a thing without naming it. To look at a thing without naming, without any judgment, any preoccupation and directly is quite a different relationship with the thing. When we do not name a thing, we are forced to look at it anew. When the mind does not think in terms of words, it becomes quiet. It is quite. When the mind is quiet the centre dissolves. This state is not a negation but understanding without any words or label. This is the only non-corrupt  state of the Being. Reality manifest itself with this silence of mind.

Lecturer in English

SridharSwami College of Education & Technology

Sadangi, Dhenkanal, Odisha (India)

Meeting the ultimate

Dr Sudhansu Dash

When one is really honest oneself, not even doing the slightest injustice to one’s own, one can understand that an idea about truth stands as the greatest obstacle on the way to know the truth. An idea is always a borrowed one and one should not be illusioned of an idea to be one’s own. If one thinks of that the idea is one’s own, one should be sure of the fact that it is the outcome of the mind which is a bundle of ideas that a man has inherited from the other in a society. The root is false because an idea is false. Truth is that what one faces moment to moment with a un- pre-occupied mind. Even the idea about the permanency of truth is false because it is an idea. It is our interpretation about truth but truth is never open to any interpretation. An interpretation simply corrupts the thing and we fail to see what ‘is’. mind can ever see the truth and the absence if the mind is the real vision of it where there is no idea , no interpretation but only the knowing. Millions and millions of interpretation have been made on truth   it may be infinite in number but false. Truth is the presence in the absence of all falsifications whatever attractive they might be.

Truth was never said, is never said, can ever be said. All scriptures speak about truth, go on talking about and about but no scripture has yet  been capable to express it. Neither the Vedas nor the Bible nor the Quran because it is impossible in the very nature of things to express it. It is not a thing to be said but to be shown. It cannot be logically proved through language. Where language fails , silence succeeds.

Truth is the absence of a presence. It is  a thing but present as a void, a nothingness. 

LUST,  LOVE  AND  PRAYER

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

Man is an opening, an evolution with all possibilities that the existence has. Man is energy, dynamism, a process; a creative process with thousand and a one potentialities and alternatives open. Man, the miniature of the existence, of course a drop, but the drop has all that the ocean has. A drop of course, but a conscious drop and the consciousness is oceanic; it knows no boundaries. The man under discussion here is not the ordinary man but the ordinary man metamorphosed to the essential man.

The ordinary man is not born with a soul but he has to create it through effort. It is only a fact that every man is burn with an opportunity. It can be used, it can be wasted. So the whole thing depends upon man. One has to become a creator by oneself and the body is a possibility. The real man is yet to happen. In the real birth one has to become one’s own father, one’s own mother and this real birth is an inner birth of creativity .For that one is to move with inwards to find one’s own source of energy .It is not only to find, but change the mechanical channels of the t energy and to make conscious channels for it.

Normally energy flows down wards that is what called lust. By calling it a lust it is not condemned, not denounced .either. It is just a fact that ordinarily water flows downwards which can neither be condemned nor be denounced but water can raise upwards .just a little heat is needed to make it evaporate. The same water that always going down words, now starts going up. Just a conversion has happened, nothing more.  Lust is the same energy as love but the difference is only that of direction. Lust moves downwards but love moves upwards. All energy is the same. Energy as such is neutral. To be creative means to be conscious of the energy. The downward movement of the energy is destructive and by allowing so one is simply dissipating oneself.

Every moment we are being poured with energy by existence through air, water, food, sunlight, moonlight,and a thousand and one other subtle influences but what are we doing with that energy? Are we creating something out of it or simply wasting it? It just comes through one end and is lost through the other end. Subtle juices are created by that energy, that what sex is, the most powerful energy of the body. Lust is the lowest form of sex energy, love is the highest form.

There is a certain mechanism in man called kundabuffer ,just opposite to kundalini.The upward flow of the energy moves through kundalini and the downward flow moves through kundabuffer.This kundabuffer passage has to be destroyed, melted and destructured .It is a mechanism out of the continuous practice of many lives. A certain mechanism has arise in everybody, a channel. The moment energy is ready, it moves through this channel and one must know that, this channel is ready to take it out of one’s being. If this is the truth and nothing else is possible, then Jean-Paul Sartre is right in saying that man is a useless passion. But this is not all. The kundabuffer can be melted and once it is destroyed, another channel starts functioning. It is already there waiting for man but man has not allowed energy to flow into it. Of course, it is an arduous task because going downwards is easy but going upwards, strength, a certain will, courage, trust, many things will be needed.

The really adventurous and courageous is attracted towards this path of self transformation. This is the greatest religion of man. the more conscious one is ,the more energy starts flowing upwards on its own accord. Consciousness is the clue, the key, the master key. Lost becomes love through consciousness.

All our so called love is as unconscious as anything else. It is unconscious, therefore we use the expression ‘falling in love’, but in conscious love is a rising phenomenon. So our love is just a name for lust-a beautiful name. This beautiful word is very deceptive.

All most all of us are functioning through kundabufferThis mechanism exists just at the center of the sex. People living on this center can have two sorts of lives; one is indulgence and the other is repression-but both are the same. Ordinarily, the people, who live a life of repression are thought to be saints, but simply foolish. They are the same people with a different garb. People who live a life of  repression are as unconscious as the people who live a life of indulgence. Indulgence and repression are the two faces of the same type of person. In monasteries one will find the repressive type and in the world the indulgent type. Both are complimentary to one another. Their obsession is the same, their fixation is the same, and their neurosis is the same. In fact the stronger the kundabuffer is, the more people become repressive, because they want to control it. This control is but forces their sex desire deep into the unconscious and they continuously fight against it.

One thing should be clearly understood that when one fights with something, one can never leave it and one can never go beyond it as well. To fight with something means one is to remain on the same level of the fighting object. So the only way is to melt down the kundabuffer.

One technique, though small, is of tremendous help. When sex desire arises, there are three possibilities; one is to indulge in it that ordinary people do that everybody is doing, second; to repress it so that it is forced to go beyond the consciousness into the darkness of unconsciousness and thrown into the basement of life. But it is there. That is what the so called extraordinary people are doing-the saints , the monks , the mahatmas, But both the types of people are against nature, against the inner science of transformation. The third; when sex desire arises, one should close the eyes as it is the most valuable moment. The desire arising is the energy arising. This is the moment to be meditative in moving downwards to the sex centre where one feels the thrill, the vibration, the kick and remaining there as a silent onlooker, witnessing it not condemning it. Just to watch the fact that an energy arising near the sex center. In watching the thrill one will feel that a totally new kind of energy rising upwards and finding a path inside the body. The moment it starts rising upwards, one will feel a coolness falling on him, a silence surrounding him and beatitude all around. The more one remains aware, the higher it will move and if it can come up to the heart one will know for the first time what love is. Here one’s whole being is purified. One will feel virgin. Pure and so holy that one will feel heaven within and everywhere. Heaven is no more a theology then, it will become almost a geography. One will know exactly that God is no longer a hypothesis, not a theory but a self evident truth, not an argument, not a proof ,but a conclusion.

When the energy comes to the center of the throat, it becomes prayer. We pray but we donor know what prayer is. Prayer is the most subtle and refined form of love. If one has not moved to the heart center, one cannot go to prayer. In doing certain rituals, people assert that they say something, but just by using the throat center and saying something to god  is not prayer. Prayer is concerned with the throat center but it is not a s verbalization. It is an experience at the center, and the experience is exactly like when a child sucks at the mother’s breast for the first time. It is not to say something but to receive something.

Prayer is not something that one does with God, It is something that one allows God to do with him. It is receptive. It is not an action on one’s part, it is a passive welcome. It is difficult to receive His gift when one is possessed with one’s own ideas and plans.

A real prayer is nothing to say to God except a deep gratitude and thankfulness. It simply accepts whatsoever God is pouring.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.

Just Witnessing: No Sin, No Virtue

Dr.Sudhansu Dash

The state of witnessing is neither happiness nor unhappiness, neither this nor that. If one feels joy, it is that one is identified and witnessing is gone. If one feels sad also one is no more a witness. One has to become uninvolved in the either. Witnessing is transcendence beyond the two opposites the two poles. One who has defined witnessing as a joy, has fallen again in the world of dualities.

The state of witnessing remains indefinable, and when defined it is not there, It cannot even tolerate the slightest intellectual interpretation. The word that can be used with an apology for this state is “Absolute Void” but one should not conceptualize it as negative. It is not even positive. It simply means one is alone but not lonely. It is a state full of emptiness that blossoms in one’s’ Being’. It just like the state of a mirror reflecting whatever is the case. Joy passes by and the mirror reflects it, but the mirror does not become the joy itself. It never gets itself identified. Sadness comes and the mirror also reflects it not identified with sadness in the same manner. The mirror has no prejudice against it. It is neither friendly to joy nor inimical to sadness, no liking, no disliking, It simply reflects. It should not also be conceived that the mirror is neutral. Otherwise it would not reflect. It is not indifferent even because indifference means it is prejudiced and have a certain conclusion. It is neither interested nor disinterested. It is transcendence.

Witnessing is a state of just relating, not relationship. It is a fluid phenomenon. When somebody reaches this awareness .one naturally feels a great compassion. In the state of compassion , one can see people stumbling in the dark, suffering unnecessarily , creating their own nightmare their own hell and drowning in their own created hell. The common man even justifies his own ignorance but the witness cannot because it has no experience as there is no experiencer.It has only eyes.

A light is only an experience and there is no logic in it, only one needs eyes. These eyes are attained when one has gone beyond the mind, when one has become an witness of mind a higher state than psychology, when one knows that one is not his own thoughts. The energy that reflects is the energy, capable of just seeing. There one transformed to a pure seeing.

When this state comes a great compassion happens. Here no communication is possible as the vehicle of communication is nothing but words and words are but the only tricky things. When one says something to somebody and it reaches the other person, it is his own power how to interpret it. Therefore it is not a matter of communication but communion .Each piece of cloud is different from the other, but when there is no cloud at all then the whole sky is one and the same. Minds are bound to be different because it consists of thoughts and the moment one transcends the mind, there is no difference left. How could there be difference between two absolute voids as they have no boundary. So there is no witnessing in communication, it is in communion. It is the only state where there is no sin ,no virtue as it transcends all dualities. A mirror never communicates, it communes. It is not even a manner of communication, but only the commune.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.

IN SUPPORT OF ‘SELFISHNESS’

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

The word selfishness has been condemned so much since centuries that there is every possibility of misunderstanding it , but the word is really very beautiful. To be selfish simply means to be yourself, not to consider anybody else but to consider oneself ad I that consideration, one would have considered everybody in the world. In being selfish one will find all the altruism that one has been seeking and seeking but not finding because the whole thing has been made upside down. One is told to love the other but have never loved oneself and a person who has never loved himself, how can he love others? Where from he can get love? First one has to have it.

You love the neighbor who knows nothing if love .The neighbor loves you who has never loved himself. Such insanity is happening in the whole world. People love each other knowing nothing of love. It is like beggars begging from each other, thing as if the other is an emperor. Both are thinking in the same way. One beggar has been trying to prove himself as an emperor. This is absolutely absurd .One day the truth of it would manifest itself .One day the other person will know that you are cheating him, pretending to be an emperor. When both beggars will find each other that both are beggars ,what else that they can do other than being angry ,annoyed and violent to each other, hating each other as deeply as possible? Now the love is not there. They do not know what love is.

To know some thing one must begin with oneself. One has been told to sacrifice for some idiotic ideas. Just simply be selfish in loving oneself and one will be surprised to see that when one is selfish, one discovers so many treasure within oneself. Soon one will start sharing it. Finding a treasure is lesser joy than sharing it and the treasure that opens in a man does not follow the ordinary economics and its profit or loss .It is diametrically opposite to the ordinary economic structure. In the ordinary economy if one gives something, one will have less of it and if one goes on giving, one will soon be a beggar. In ordinary economy, one snatches from the other as much as possible to get more and more but the treasure here is a different law. If one clings to them, they shrink and clinging more, one will loose it. If one wants to destroy that property, then one may close the entire doors ad become a grave, so that nothing can escape outside. But one will be a dead man with all one’s treasure dead with him. His truth, his joy , his love  all will be dead with him. If one wants to grow with one’s treasure, one is to share them all on a sundry without even a little botheration whether the other is a friend or a foe. Here only sharing is the question, not with whom who so ever he may concern. One should not eve concern about the address. One should simply go on sending the love letters without any address and somebody will one day receive it somewhere. The more one goes o sharing the more goes on entering from unknown sources.