Guest guest Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 OM Members Herewith an exerpt from Swami Sivananda's inspirational book, Sadhana (pp. 227-8): Tantra Sadhana bestows tremendous Siddhis or powers. It should be learnt under a Siddha Tantric Guru. The Tantric student must be endowed with purity, faith, devotion. dedication to Guru, dispassion, humility, courage, cosmic love, truthfulness, non-covetousness and contentment. Absence of these qualities in the practitioner means a gross abuse of Shaktism. Shaktism had been one of the potent powers for the spiritual regeneration of the Hindus. When practiced by the ignorant, unenlightened and unqualified persons, it has lead to certain abuses, and there is no denying that some degraded forms of Shaktism have sought nothing but magic, immorality and occult powers. An example of the perverted expression of the truth, a travesty of the original practices, is the theory of the five Makaras -Madya or wine, Mamsa or flesh, Matsya or fish, Mudra or symbolic acts and Maithuna or coitus. In the Shati doctrine, Siva is the supreme unchanging eternal consciousness and Shakti is His kinetic power. Universe is Power. Universe is a manifestation of Devi's glory. This is the affirmation of the Shakti doctrine. Shakti being the Power of God, Shakta is one who possesses Shakti. Sadakas are of three kinds, viz., Pasu, Veera and Divya. It is only Pasu Sadhaks who practice the Pancha Makaras, viz., Matsys, Mamsa, Madya, Mudra and Maithuna. The esoteric meaning of these five Makaras is "kill egoism, control, flesh, drink the wind of God-intoxication and union with Lord Siva." This is the divine practice of Divya Sadhaks who lead the life Divine. Give up Pasu Vritti, the tendency of animals and raise the Divya Vritti or the divine nature. Just the fruit is hidden in the seed, butter in milk, virility in boyhood, so also various Shaktis remain latent in man, veiled by ignorance. If you purify your mind and practice concentration and meditation, all these powers will shine forth. The highest fruit of meditaion or Upasana is the identity or non-distinction with the object medtated upon. The meditator and meditated becme one. The devotee of Devi attains realisation of oneness with Devi through intense Upasana or worship. Shava Sadhana The classification of aspirants is made thus: a Sattvic man is a spiritual man. He is endowed with Divya or divine qualities. He has Divya-Bhava. He is calm, pure, dispassionate, wise, passionless, egoless, compassionate, kind, pious, devoted. Sattva Guna predominates in him. If Tamas predominates in a man, he has Pasu-bhava. He is Pasu or animal. He is endowed with ignorance, error, carelessness, intertia, sloth, etc. If Rajas predominates in a man, he is Veera. He has Veera-bhava. Divya-bhava is the best, the Veera is next best and the Pasu the lowest. From being a Pasu a man raises in this or some other birth to be a Veera. Divya-bhava or Devata-bhava is awakened through Veera-bhava... Lakassamastah Sukhino Bhavantu (May peace and prosperity abide in you all) Omprem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Hello Happy Sadhu, It seems your spectacular long weekend with the 'love of your life' has really done wonders for you. You should take such trips more often. You quote Swami Sivananda ... " It is only Pasu Sadhaks who practice the Pancha Makaras, viz., Matsys, Mamsa, Madya, Mudra and Maithuna." This is not true.. In fact, those in the pashu bhava are not allowed to practice the panca makaras as per tantrik scriptures. " The esoteric meaning of these five Makaras is "kill egoism, control, flesh, drink the wind of > God-intoxication and union with Lord Siva." True. I GuESS you meant 'WINE' of God-intoxication - 'Wind' must be the error of the finger. YES, There is a dark as well as a bright side to any sadhana, including tantrik sadhana. It is only with the extreme section of kaulas -called Uttara kaulas - that all those abominations (black magic, occult powers, witch-craft) which have given Tantrism a bad name , are associated. Thank You. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 OM asimhavahini "You quote Swami Sivananda ... " It is only Pasu Sadhaks who practice the Pancha Makaras, viz., Matsys, Mamsa, Madya, Mudra and Maithuna." This is not true.. In fact, those in the pashu bhava are not allowed to practice the panca makaras as per tantrik scriptures." Unless things have changed since Swami Sivananda wrote that, I will go with what he said. It seemed clear that Swami Sivananda was saying that in everything there is a dark side, an active middle and a bright side when he wrote about tamas, rajas and sattva. In this instance, he was discussing those aspects as displayed in Tantrism and its practitioners. Jaya Guru Omprem PS Thanks for the copy editing task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Namaste Ompremji, This is absolutely correct- as per tantrik scriptures only veeras are allowed to indulge in the panchamakara ritual. The reasoning being that only people who have a good deal of self-control(which pasus lack) can practice this in the proper perspective. Undoubtably, there is no-one as knowledgeable as Swami Sivananda in any field- most of Swamiji's attention was on yoga, so IMO the reason why he may done so was to dissuade people from going into "spiritual sex". >From the perspective of a yogi, only a pasu indulges in sex and it is better to give that impression to budding yogis. On the other hand, Swamiji imparted a thorough tantric training to his brilliant disciples- Satyananda and Omkarananda, who have written extensively on tantra including the panchamakaras. Aum Namasivaya yogaman , "omprem <omprem>" <omprem> wrote: > OM asimhavahini > > "You quote Swami Sivananda ... > > " It is only Pasu Sadhaks who practice the Pancha Makaras, viz., > Matsys, Mamsa, Madya, Mudra and Maithuna." > > This is not true.. In fact, those in the pashu bhava are not > allowed to practice the panca makaras as per tantrik scriptures." > > > Unless things have changed since Swami Sivananda wrote that, > I will go with what he said. > > It seemed clear that Swami Sivananda was saying that in > everything there is a dark side, an active middle and a bright side > when he wrote about tamas, rajas and sattva. In this instance, > he was discussing those aspects as displayed in Tantrism and > its practitioners. > > Jaya Guru > > Omprem > > PS Thanks for the copy editing task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroknower Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Hi All, why not simply Be One with the essence of the Panchakshara instead of going through the drudgery of Panchamakara! Namah Shivaya Astroknower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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