Wannabe Yogi
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Georg Feurstein ( a well regarded scholar on both Yoga and Tantra ) has said this about todays Tantra in the west.
"The paucity of resources of research and publications on the Tantric heritage of Hinduism has in recent years made room for a crop of ill-informed popular books on what I have called Neo-Tantra."
Most of what I have read about Tantra in the west is not Tantra.
"It is productive of extensive results, being constituted of metaphysics as well as mantras, and as it leads to liberation it is called Tantra."
-Gandharva Tantra
Most people think of Mother worship when it comes to Tantra. There are also sects of Tantra that worship Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Ganapatya. They all have their own Tantric scriptures that the base thier faith on.
The Tantric scriptures believe that Vedic rituals work but for the average man in the kali yuga Tantric rituals are just easy to use.
The Tantras also teach the following things:
-The discernment and renunciation that you find in the Upanishads
-Pranayama, medatation on the chakras and kundalini power.
-The type of devotion you find in the purana's
I believe that Hindu Tantra is Vedic. The Tantric scriptures that I have read teach that they come from the Vedic traditions. Some orthodox followers of the Vedic tradition reject Tantra as Vedic. The Tantra's and great saints like Sankara both teach that Tantra to be interwined with Vedic traditions.
It is importent to remember that Adi Sankara traveled all over India installing the Sri Yantra in Temples and he wrote the Saundarya-Lahari to teach others how to use it.
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"The paucity of resources of research and publications on the Tantric heritage of Hinduism has in recent years made room for a crop of ill-informed popular books on what I have called Neo-Tantra."
Most of what I have read about Tantra in the west is not Tantra.
"It is productive of extensive results, being constituted of metaphysics as well as mantras, and as it leads to liberation it is called Tantra."
-Gandharva Tantra
Most people think of Mother worship when it comes to Tantra. There are also sects of Tantra that worship Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Ganapatya. They all have their own Tantric scriptures that the base thier faith on.
The Tantric scriptures believe that Vedic rituals work but for the average man in the kali yuga Tantric rituals are just easy to use.
The Tantras also teach the following things:
-The discernment and renunciation that you find in the Upanishads
-Pranayama, medatation on the chakras and kundalini power.
-The type of devotion you find in the purana's
I believe that Hindu Tantra is Vedic. The Tantric scriptures that I have read teach that they come from the Vedic traditions. Some orthodox followers of the Vedic tradition reject Tantra as Vedic. The Tantra's and great saints like Sankara both teach that Tantra to be interwined with Vedic traditions.
It is importent to remember that Adi Sankara traveled all over India installing the Sri Yantra in Temples and he wrote the Saundarya-Lahari to teach others how to use it.
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