"Exploring the Transformative Power of Tantra: Aiming for Oneness Through the Sacred Experience" The language of Love - Tantra 2

Though there may be many rivers,

They are one in the sea.

Though there may be many lies,

One truth will conquer all.

When the sun appears,

The dark, however deep,

Will vanish. ( song of SARAHA)

The songs of Saraha are of great beauty. They are the very foundation of Tantra. We need to understand the Tantra attitude towards life, and the Tantra vision of life. The most basic thing about Tantra is this - and very radical, revolutionary, rebellious -the basic vision is that the world is not divided into the lower and the higher, but that the world is one piece. The higher and the lower are holding hands. The higher includes the lower, and the lower the higher. The higher is hidden in the lower -so the lower has not to be denied, has not to be condemned, has not to be destroyed or killed. The lower has to be transformed. The lower has to be allowed to move upwards... and the lower becomes the higher. There is no unbridgeable gap between the devil and God: the devil surely has been carrying the God deep down in his heart. Once that heart starts functioning, the devil becomes God. The very root of the word devil means the same as divine. The word devil comes from the divine; it is the divine has not yet evolved, that's all. The devil is not against the divine, not that the devil is trying to destroy the divine -the devil is trying to find the divine. The devil is on the way towards the divine; it is not the enemy, it is the seed. The divine is the tree which has fully bloomed, and the devil, well is the seed - but the tree is hidden in the seed, so the seed is not against the tree. The tree cannot exist if the seed is not there. And the tree is not against the seed - they are in deep friendship, they are together. Poison and nectar are two phases of the same energy, and so are life and death - and so is everything: day and night, love and hate, yin and yang, sex and super-consciousness.

Tantra says never condemn anything - the attitude of condemnation is the stupid attitude. By condemning something we are denying ourselves the possibility that would have become available to us if we had evolved the lower. So, don't condemn the mud, because the lotus is hidden in the mud; but use the mud to produce the lotus. Surely the mud is not the lotus yet, but it can be. And once you have known your Manipura, you are the creative person, the religious person, who will help the mud to release its lotus so that the lotus can be freed from the mud. Saraha is the founder of the Tantra vision. It is of tremendous importance - particularly for the present moment in human history because deep down if you are eager to know about Tantra, a new you, the real you is striving to be born, a new consciousness is knocking on the doors. And as my Tantra studies deepen, all I see is that the future is going to be that of Tantra, because now, dual attitudes can no longer hold man's mind, once you are moving towards understanding your mind.

One day, while Saraha was meditating, suddenly he saw a vision - a vision that there was a woman in the marketplace who was going to be his real teacher. Read again and try to understand, that it is only Tantra that has never been male chauvinistic. To go into Tantra you will need the cooperation of a wise woman; without a wise woman, you will not be able to enter into the complex world of Tantra, first, a woman,

second, the marketplace. Tantra thrives in the marketplace, in the thick of life. It is not an attitude of negation, it is utter positivity. Finally, the most important aspect to be remembered about Tantra: it says the more cultured, the more civilized a person, the less is the possibility of his tantric transformation. The less civilized, the more primitive, you are, the more alive a person you are. The more you become civilized, the more you will become plastic - you will become artificial, you become too cultivated, and you lose your roots in the earth. You are now afraid of the muddy world, and even if it seems you are living you are living away from the world, you unknowingly start posing as though you are not of the world, so start moving to your roots.