Life is the deity

The universal form of Vishnu, the embodiment of life itself
 in all of its various manifestations.

A tantric is a yogi who has faith that consciousness can be altered, purified, and uplifted by the use of psycho-spiritual tools and techniques. Employing magical formulas known as mantras, geometric patterns known as yantras, and various processes of internal visualization and/or attitudes known as tantras, the tantric yogi seeks to witness the non-dual principle underlying our reality and derive strength, compassion, devotion, and a clearer understanding of individual purpose from such witnessing.


The Bhagavata or path of devotion towards Bhagavan, the full embodiment of truth, existence, consciousness, personhood, experience, and bliss, allows the tantric yogi, or Vaishnava, to walk through life as part and parcel of the whole, never becoming bewildered by the temporary happenings of material nature. Participating in life with the understanding that existence occurs specifically for the purpose of providing experience and bliss to the whole and all of its parts and parcels, a tantric lives life full of love and passion, experiencing a reciprocal relationship with life itself. As he/she learns to serve and provide love and joy to others and especially the whole, Bhagavan, so the tantric experience can increase in joy, love, and wisdom in his/her being. The is the intrinsic nature of the relationship between God and his parts, simultaneous oneness and difference.


We are all in a relationship with our own lives,  and according to the Tantric texts, our life is our own deity, the divine, God himself.  We have forgotten since time immemorial the identity of life, spanning across all time and species.  Thus, we limit life according to the body, race, gender, or any other temporary designation. We are then bewildered by the mundane appearances, thinking them to be absolute and the absolute to be non-existent. We suffer a sort of amnesiac forgetfulness of our intrinsic purpose, eternal nature,  mistake a rope for a snake, life to be temporary, and God to be dead.

A real tantric yogi is in the process of re-awakening the dormant and forgotten relationship with life making a great effort to genuinely pacify the deepest and most fundamental drive of life; to find and participate in true love and spiritual enlightenment.


If any readers out there are genuinely interested in going deeper into these mysteries, I encourage you to take up the process of reciting the names of God, either from your own religious background or from the Vaishnava tradition of chanting the names like "Hari, Krishna, Rama, Narasimha, Acyuta, Madhava, or Govinda". I promise these names will not let you down, what's there to lose?

#Jainitai