This is Tantra

Experiencing all reality at once

The View

The yogi lives according to a view of life which is holistic, all-inclusive, and completely in touch with truth and reality. He/She does not prefer life to behave more civilised or orderly nor to snuff out those aspects of life which are difficult, taxing, hurtful, or scary. It is a total of acceptance of the reality of life continually expressed through nature, time, and desire. A yogi allows life to play freely according to its own sweet will, and in doing so, the yogi is rewarded by life with all its beauty, wonder, prosperity, and love. This is why a yogi, is the only one who is truly living.

Mantra

The 100 syllable vajrasattva mantra,
Recalling the innate purity of life

To attain this state of equilibrium and harmony with life, the yogi practices intense and deep absorption in this vision of life as the whole through linking or integrating that conception with a series of letters, words, and sounds which are connected to the various elements and truths of life. In other words, he/she utilizes a condensed representation of the totality of life in the form of a Mantra. This is a highly effective way of recalling and meditating on that vision of wholeness and unity in a single instant. As soon as the mantra is remembered, or spoken, the yogi is in the state of recognition, and when the mantra hides from his conscious awareness it is concealed. This again is just the interplay of life and death. The yogi does not lament any of the motions of his/her consciousness as it is ultimately the Lila of spirit and matter, life and death, shiva-shakti, Radhe-Shyama!

Yantra

Kalachakra, the wheel of time.

In order to elaborate and play with this vision, complex geometric patterns called mandalas or yantras, are also drawn and/or meditated upon. These mandalas are the unity displayed in all its variety, again in a condensed version, capable of fitting on a single piece of paper or within the mind's eye. Yogis of the Vajrayana school are notorious for their beautiful and painfully complex sand mandala of Kalachakra, chakrasamvara, Hevajra, or Vajrayogini deity mandalas. Essentially, each of these different mandalas are snapshots looking at the one reality through a particular lens, flavour, or mood. These various moods, flavours, and lenses help us become acquainted and comfortable with the divinity of all aspects of life, some pleasant, some very harsh and cold. I, as a Tantrik Vaishnava, look at life as Sri Krsna and thus derive Love as the ultimate meaning and purpose of life. Jai Sri Radhe!

This is Tantra, this is the mechanics of being, this is the way of liberation and effortless existence.

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