Tantra Yoga

Tantra Yoga is a practical type of Yoga where in the body and mind are considered to be one, and the body is believed to be a vehicle of the mind. According to this system the mind is abstract, the body concrete; to work with the abstract mind we need to use the concrete material stuff called body.

It is in the body that the psychic centers are located. The functional aspect of the cerebrospinal system is called the mind. The spine is the seat of all responses. Tantra's basic principle is shakti, female power, which is manifested as matter and mind, though supreme consciousness is mindless.

When there is no mind, there is no limitation, and
man is then pure consciousness.

 

To go beyond the mind, one stops its vehicle so that its activities become suspended. Prana breath is the mind's vehicle. Apana is prana that exists in the region extending from below the navel to the anus, and is responsible for all activities in the pelvic region, including ejaculation, urination, and defecation.

Prana, which is charged with negative ions,
is made to function with apana and is forced
to enter through the central canal in the spinal column,
there is a fusion between the ions of prana and apana.

This generates great amounts of energy which, in turn, help in the ascent of the
dormant energy that is at rest at the base of the spine Kundalini. Before the
generation of this energy is physically possible.

There must be preparation through bodily purifications, asanas yogic postures, mudras gestures,
and pranayama yogic breathing.
Kundalini is basically tantric in origin. It works through the union
of the psyche with matter, and the mind with the physical body.

The body plays a great role in producing various moods, including the highest mood, samadhi, the mood of bliss. This state is achieved by channeling energy through the nervous system and through the spine. The energy ascends through a narrow passage in the spinal column and passes through six psychic centers before it reaches its final abode, the seventh center. The seventh center is located in the cerebrum, the hollow space between the twin hemispheres of the brain, where again a fusion takes place, and where the activities of the mind are completely suspended. Both hemispheres become calm, the inner dialogue stops, one loses all sense of time and space, and identifications and false notions of the phenomenal world melt away.

 

 

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