The famous medium, Ma Ananda Sarita, wrote a book called Tantric Love. The article is based on her work. The woman studied and practiced with the master of Osho in India. Then she traveled the world for many years with her tantric partner and conducted seminars.
Tantric love: a story
People’s interest in tantra appeared, faded, and revived again. Today it is ambiguous. But before judging, it is worthwhile to understand not superficially, but in detail what tantric love is. After all, reviews are left by people who delve into the essence of the technique in different ways. Someone just heard about it from others and form an opinion based on other people's impressions, while someone was interested and studied it personally.
The first mention of tantra was recorded in the teachings of Shiva five thousand years ago in India. Some meditations that led to a state of superconsciousness also included sex, which led to the liberation of the spirit. To date, Shiva is worshiped in India.
In antiquity, young people were taught in tantra schools to communicate with lovers. Along with practitioners open to all, there were forms that were closed to them, which were transmitted directly from teachers to students.
Tantra is not a religion. It consists of various currents, the main of which use meditation on death and sex. On the basis of these main ones, other additional ones appeared, painted by the cultures of the peoples, where they were practiced.
Different currents
Some techniques accept both love and sex. Others reject emotional attachment and accept sex as a way of raising their consciousness. The former are more characteristic of female perception, where the body is known as a microcosm: feeling and realizing what is happening, the student contemplates the Universe.
The second trends are more focused on men. Here it is believed that opening up to love, it is easy to wallow in an emotional “swamp” and lose transcendental perception.
In Tibet, tantra developed under the influence of the shamanistic religion, so it is associated with death. Masters conduct meditations in cemeteries, presenting a partner in the form of a skeleton. It is believed that this method helps to get out of the physical dimension.
But in China, tantra, on the contrary, is associated with life - health and longevity. It is even recommended that you practice certain poses to stimulate Qi energy and harmoniously merge the masculine and feminine principles.
All approaches should be distinguished, otherwise there is confusion. Then understanding the concept of tantra is quite difficult. Usually, training is conducted secretly, as an uninitiated person can easily pervert its essence.
Tantra is ...
The word comes from Sanskrit and is interpreted in different ways. In a broad sense, it can be translated as "a way to go beyond." Also, tantra is understood as the "path", "method", "transformation", "conversion from poison to nectar."
Tantric love offers various meditations, each of which refers to a specific part of the body and soul. Sometimes people who observe high states in an enlightened person think that if they behave in the same way, they will feel the same way. But this is a misleading opinion. Each person or couple should look for their own path. Even when using the same methods for all, opportunities will open in their own way.
Gaining the courage to reveal sensitivity and continue to move in this direction, a person gradually comes to superconsciousness, receiving great vitality, intelligence and activity.
Sarita offers tantric love as a natural path to liberation of the spirit, developed through meditation and expansion of awareness.
Meditations and Chakras
Through tantra, the path to health, an integral perception of reality, opens. Love, complemented by meditation, makes the relationship between people spiritualized and divine.
Lessons of tantric love can be received both singly and taught in pairs. Any negative emotion, such as anger or fear, passion and love, can be used in meditation. All experiences will be converted into divine perception through awareness. This is the path to an infinite number of dimensions and the discovery of your universe.
Meditations help eliminate stress, get rid of greed, fear and other negative emotions that poison life. In return, practitioners receive love, increased vitality, awareness of compassion, increased sensitivity, and more.
Moreover, their body is treated like a temple. Therefore, meditation begins after taking a shower, in clean clothes and eliminating various distractions.
In the East, the doctrine of the chakras. These are energy centers located in certain areas of the body and associated with its physical organs. They open up through the streams of cosmic energy and spread to the nine energy bodies of a person, as well as the soul.
Opening chakras in ourselves, we know ourselves. Together with their comprehension, perception also changes. Tantric love lessons from the very beginning are best done without setting specific goals. After all, no one knows what the path of each person individually will be. It depends on his life experience, accumulated problems and karma.
There are seven main chakras on the human body:
- muladhara;
- svadhisthana;
- Manipura
- anahata;
- vishudha;
- ajna;
- sahasrara.
Each of them has its own vibrations and has an energy body. All chakras are important for unlocking potential. It is proposed to study them in themselves, starting from the first (muladhara), and reach the crown (sahasrara).
Kundalini is the life force of man. Its unmanifest form is a snake, which is folded into a glomerulus at the base of the spine. Climbing the spine and opening each chakra, it gives wisdom and reveals new possibilities of man. Tantric love helps to feel it.
With the creation of a channel from the sexual center to the parietal region, spiritual rebirth sets in, and the seeker proceeds to the next stage - the descent of spiritual light. Neither special techniques nor the capabilities of the mind will help at this stage. Only the spiritual level of a person, fulfilled life situations and correctly perceived lessons will create the conditions for the onset of this stage.
A holistic person is symbolized by a snake, which bites its own tail, thus forming a circle, goal, source. Everything in the body is interconnected. For the treatment of the head, they deal with the genital area, for the treatment of the groin - with the head. The seventh chakra will open after all the others when their capabilities are known in all its splendor.
Consider each of them and the meditations that tantric love offers in practice.
Muladhara
The chakra is located in the sexual center, has a red color, the sound "U" and a musky smell. In its vibration, the very seed of life is revealed. If a person moves according to his purpose, trusts the life path, he feels joyful and even enthusiastic. But fear, that is, stagnation of vital energy, is also capable of turning into anger, external or internal rage. In the latter case, diseases develop, and in the former, envy, hatred, jealousy, which even make a person cruel.
Most diseases of a physical and psychological nature are associated specifically with stagnation or malfunctioning of the muladhara. Tantric love is capable of healing. Meditations can be practiced both separately and in pairs.
One of them is called “Pillow Beating”, when they hit the pillow for several minutes, splashing out their energy with anger, and then relax and watch their thoughts, emotions and current energies.
Another meditation is “Awakening the flow of energy”, when they feel the energy passing from the foot and rising up the chakras. Music can help here. Moreover, some melodies, calm and subtle, include first, more rhythmic - then. In the end, it is better to turn off the music completely.
At the same time, tantric love teaches a more respectful and respectful attitude to childbearing organs. Ma Ananda Sarita tells how to open this feeling in yourself, take care of the body and feel the being more subtle.
Swadhisthana
The second chakra is located under the navel. It is orange in color, it smells of myrrh, its sound is “Oh.” Harmoniously developing svadhisthana gives rise to joy, trust and carefree laughter. If a person has problems with this chakra, his emotions quickly turn into anger, hysteria, tears ... But on the other hand, because of ignorance and a desire to fence himself off from everyone, he can completely forbid himself to feel all emotions. Swadhistana opens the door to the nonphysical. A properly meditating person soon becomes balanced, wise and calm.
It is known that every seven years a cyclical rebirth is experienced. It begins in this chakra.
Here, tantric love is revealed by a person step by step through the mediations “Radiate Love”, “Affection Meditation” and “Khajuraho”. With subtle vibrations and warmth, life will be felt differently and its new meanings will appear.
Beloved ones will be able to rise to a level of intimacy, which until then was not. This is especially true for men who seek to isolate themselves from emotional experiences.
Nevertheless, both men and women are equally passionately eager to find deep intimacy. And despite the fact that it can be very difficult to achieve this (some even say that men and women were born on different planets, for example), tantric love may suggest how the partners should behave.
At this stage, the walls of the ego are comprehended, which seek to protect a person from unnecessary experiences. However, the seeker gradually comes to the understanding that this is actually just an obstacle that hinders the true feeling of a partner.
Manipura
The next chakra is between the center of the chest and the navel. It is yellow in color, has the smell of ambergris and the sound of "Ma". Here rebirths take place. With problems with manipura of a person, contradictions constantly tear apart. Power comes from a slave state and inferiority complex. In normal work, all opposites are comprehended harmoniously, without destroying individuality. All conventions are removed here, and the doors open to open wisdom. Great mental abilities appear. Different energies are balanced, and a person begins to radiate light.
All meditations are aimed at merging opposites, turning on one’s observer (“Observing the observer”) and preparing for the perception of the next level - the Heart.
Anahata
It is in this center that understanding is located. A wise woman has a spring hidden inside, quenching the thirst for finding a man who is striving for tantric initiation. He should give way to the female heart.
There is an energetic connection between the heart and feet . Therefore, in addition to meditation, the opening of this chakra is facilitated by tantric massage, a dance of love. Having loved his feet and taking care of them, a person will begin to feel reflection in the heart. Thus, the divine penetrates better into it, harmonizing opposites.
In this practice, all personality masks fall off from the partners, and the beloved appear before each other as they are, revealing then the god and the goddess in themselves.
Anahata is green or pink, its sound is “Ah.” The keys to love in all manifestations are found here.
Chakra harmonization meditation is practiced, during which partners visualize or do massage, whereby tantric love is expressed. This concept is comprehended through breathing. The heart chakra expands, grows, capturing not only the whole person, but the whole planet, and then the Cosmos.
The experience that is acquired and new sensations are transferred to everyday life.
Vishuddha
The fifth chakra is in the throat. She awakens consciousness. Through vishudha creative abilities are revealed. The chakra is considered masculine, personifying the paternal beginning. The color is blue, the smell of incense, and the sound is "Aye." Science and art are developed precisely due to the correct work of vishuddha. By revealing it, a person gains great abilities for self-realization.
Here a woman becomes a woman, and a man becomes a man. Women nowadays are used to competing with men, repeating their behavior. But, becoming like men, they lose their femininity, attractiveness and natural destiny.
On the other hand, men become passive. They usually direct their natural active qualities to the rational part and the development of intelligence. Everything else is rejected. Trying to control the external, men ignore the internal. But that is where true power lies. Unable to search and find where it lies, they are trying to forcibly gain power, social status, and dominate the family. However, equilibrium will come only when inner strength is comprehended, which becomes possible through the realization and assumption of sensitivity and receptivity in oneself. Only a wise woman can help.
Meditations on this chakra help to overcome desires, receiving deep wisdom and revelations. Osho's Tantric love teaches us to control energies and to achieve such states for which yogis leave the worldly life for years. But here meditations do not require such an immersion. Partners help each other, thereby enhancing the action of the directed energies.
Ajna
Starting from the sixth chakra, the path of the seeker is simplified. Now the sprouts grown before this time bloom into beautiful flowers of awareness. Ajna is also ready to blossom. Another chakra is called the "third eye." It is blue, smells of jasmine and has the sound of "Her." The body of this energy center is not affected by prejudice. It is clear, all-seeing, detached. By revealing ajna in himself, a person becomes a mystic.
The meditation on feelings is widespread here. Tastes, smells, sounds - all this can be perceived by the heart, discovering new sensations.
Through ajna, tantric love is possible at a distance. Beloved ones can communicate, for example in a dream, and control their actions there as if in reality.
It also achieves a state of sleep without dreams, when there is a complete restoration of strength. Opening the "third eye" you need to be prepared for a variety of manifestations. For example, there may be visions of past lives, fantastic dreams, a sense of infinity and much more. It is best to do meditations gradually and intermittently, in order to preserve a balanced state as much as possible and to switch to a new one without special shocks.
The most common during this period is the "Breath in the Chakras", which is carried out singly or together.
Sahasrara
Having made such a long journey, a person becomes able to move around energy centers freely. The physical form becomes inspired, a creative impulse is acquired. Prana fills the body with the desire to live in full strength.
Each of the chakras has its own frequency. Tantric love (photo, image of the chakras see below) facilitates the path to their comprehension. The ability to create a flow, select the frequency necessary for communication and communication, and become free to achieve white color is acquired.
In the seventh chakra, lovers create a spiritual union. If until this time they considered each other as very close, but still separate people, then by the joint opening of the sahasrara they become one, reaching unity.
The seventh chakra is sometimes compared to the thousand-petalled lotus, which can only bloom due to rooting in other chakras. Sahasrara has a purple or white color, it smells like a lotus, it sounds like “Ham”. The enlightened consciousness now lives and breathes through the physical body.
Spiritual lovers continue their meditation here. They feel and see love both in themselves and everywhere around. These meditations cannot be comprehended, ignoring all previous steps. They will be simply incomprehensible and inaccessible as they are. But having managed to go such a rich path, the beloved find and unlock the keys to all the doors they were looking for.