Kali, Ramakrishna and Tantra

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The path of the Vedas is not meant for the

Kaliyuga. The path of Tantra is efficacious.

 

--Ramakrishna

 

 

 

Sri Ramakrishna set himself to the task of practising

the disciplines of Tantra; and at the bidding of the

Divine Mother Herself he accepted the Brahmani as his

guru. He performed profound and delicate ceremonies

in the Panchavati and under the bel-tree at the

northern end of the temple compound. He practiced

all the disciplines of the sixty-four principal Tantra

books, and it took him no more than three days to

achieve the result promised in any one of them.

 

--Nikhilananda

 

 

 

Ramakrishna's interpreters also have been very slow

to acknowledge the radical nature of Ramakrishna's

left-handed practices.

 

--Kripal

 

I would include you in that category, Mr. Chatterjee.

While I understand that you may represent a particular

mind-frame in hindu society, it is one which is rigidly

moralistic to the point of repression, and utterly

caught up in the hagiographies of its saints to the

exclusion of the truth, in my opinion.

 

We have your type over here. We call them born-again

or fundamentalist christians. They're the ones

primarily responsible for the mess that the world

is in, at least with regards to the Middle East.

 

It was our loving and protective Mother Kali who

brought the wave that took so many off the planet.

If it happened, She did it. Good or bad.

 

--jody.