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What is tantra?

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on January 9, 2011 at 9:36pm in Open Forum
what is tantra yoga ? This question was asked by one of our Facebook friends and received several answers. Do you have any other comments? Deddy: positioning while having intercourse. In addition, an indepth analysis of joyful love thru mating. Gonzalez: An art of yoga that is focused on sexual intercourse and foreplay. Sumit: tantra yoga is not about sexual intercourse,its just a part of it. tantra yoga is acceptance of all what existence provides :) Sita Chaitanya: I don't have a great definition of this, but it is so much more than about sex. That's just one aspect of some practitioners. The actual definition has to do with the uniting of Shiva and Shakti, and the right-handed tantrics don't engage in sex at all. Hatha yoga can be considered tantra in the sense that you unite the energies of Shiva and Shakti, also known as prana and apana. Shoumava: @Yoga vidya it is not about sex :P Sita Chaitanya: Right Shoumava. Shoumava: it does focus on sex like Tantrik Yoga emphasises on Halasana which is said to be an asana which tones the sex glands and tantra has more been misrepresented by fake tantriks and mantriks in Indian society who continue to do mal practices and fool people Tantra Yoga had been one of the potent powers for the spiritual regeneration of the Hindus. When practised by the ignorant, unenlightened, and unqualified persons, it has led to certain abuses; and there is no denying that some degraded for...ms of Saktism 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 (Pancha Makaras);-Madya or wine, Mamsa or flesh, Matsya or fish, Mudra or symbolical acts, and Maithuna or coition. The esoteric meaning of these five Makaras is: "Kill egoism, control flesh, drink the wine of God-intoxication, and have union with Lord Siva". Tantra explains (Tanoti) in great detail the knowledge concerning Tattva (Truth or Brahman) and Mantra (mystic syllables). It saves (Trayate). Hence it is called Tantra I got the above from internet Andrea: Hatha Yoga is one of the pratical aspect of Tantra,in my opinion the core of Tantra is Bhakti Yoga

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