Tantra - The Serpentine Ascent

Tantra - The Serpentine Ascent - Part I

Occult Vibratory Chemistry existed in India by the name of
Tantra.

Tantra is derived from two Sanskrit words - Thanoti ( to
expand ) & Trayaten ( to liberate). This Science has the
power to expand and liberate !

Expansion means to grow beyond one's boundaries. Expansion
upto Infinity. Thanothi means the expansion of Consciousness
ad infinitum.Individual consciousness should expand to
Universal Consciousness for mergence in the Supreme Self.

Trayate means to liberate, to liberate man from bondgage,
from the Seven Deadly Sins which bind him to the sublunar
world. The purging of mortal dross is a must for
Self-Actualisation and the " inner enemies of man " Lust,
greed, anger, jealousy, sloth, covetousness & attachment )
are the real blocks in the way of Self Actualisation

Liberation is not possible without expansion of
Consciousness. When our individual Consciousness expands to
Cosmic, we feel whole & are liberated from the thraldom of
matter.

The Upanishadic Philosophy was based on the Five Concentric
Sheaths known as the Five Koshas. The outermost concentric
Sheath, the Anna Maya Kosha, is known as the Material
Sheath. It envelopes the other four sheaths - vital,
mental, intellectual & bliss.

Tantra, on the other hand, speaks about the Six Chakras,
dynamoes of Cosmic Energy in the human body.

These Chakras are ( in ascending order)

1. Root Chakra ( Muladhara ) 2. Anal Chakra ( Manipura )
3. Solar Plexus Chakra ( Swadhistana ) 4. Heart Chakra (
Anahata ) 5. Throat Chakra ( Vishuddhi ) 6. Eyebrow Chakra
( Ajna )

The Five Great Elements ( Earth, air, water, fire & ether )
& Mind reside in the Six Chakras.

Earth-Principle resides in the Root Chakra Water-Principle
resides in the Navel Chakra Fire-Principle resides in the
Solar Plexus Chakra Air-Principle resides in the Heart
Chakra Ether-Principle resides in the Throat Chakra
Mind-Principle resides in the Eye Brow Chakra.

The Microscomic representative of the Macrocosmic Shakti (
Cosmic Power ), the Kundalini, sportest as the Six
principles in the Six Chakras in Her Cosmic Play.

O Infinite Power ! Thou art the Mind-principle in the Eye
brow Chakra In the Throat Chakra , Thou sport as the
Ether-principle In the Heart Chakra, Thou sportest as Air-
principle In the Solar Plexus Chakra, Thou art
Fire-principle In the Navel Chakra , Thou exist as
Water-principle In the Root Chakra, Thou art the Earth
_Principle, O Mighty Mother ! And in the Crown Chakra, Thou
sportest blissfully with thy beloved Consort !

She lies coiled in human beings as the Coiled Serpent Power
( Kundalini). She rises during Mediation and Yogic
processes.

Her rise can be felt by the meditator. When She rises, a
subtle warmth will be felt in the body. Voice changes. Voice
becomes musical, " propertied as the tuned spheres". The
personality of the native becomes very attractive due to the
influx of Jupiterian energy. Wisdom and learning grace the
individual. When She rises furthur, torrential bliss will be
felt. And when She reaches the Crown Chakra, it is Cosmic
Consciousness for the native !

She sports as Universal Power in the Macrocosm; and in the
microcosm as the coiled Serpent Power!

Infinite Power of the Absolute art Thou! The Cause of the
Universe as Maya The entire Creation is Thy Play Thy
blessing is Bliss Absolute !

The essence of all sciences art Thou All women Thy
manifestations ! The visible Universe Thou art And the
dormant Serpentine Power !

One of the pioneers in Tantra Research was Sir John
Woodroffe , who had written many scholarly treatises on the
subject. His magnum opus is the "Serpent Power", which is a
scientific treatise about the Kundalini. His practice of
Tantra endowed him with personal magnetism. He became the
cynosure of all eyes. There was a special lustre on his
face, he possessed the Golden Tongue of Good Report & there
was a spiritual halo around him. He had developed his Auric
Field ( the human electro-magnetic field ) due to Tantric
techniques and bacame a dynamo of spiritual energy. His
masterly book is a scientific diagnosis about Tantra.

The heart and vocal nervous centers are intimately related
physiologically. Bhava Shuddhi or purity of Heart makes the
voice innocent and musical. The true Initiate is he whose
voice is true and who possesses the Golden Tongue of Good
Report!

The Cosmic Shakti is the Force behind the Universe & the
entire Universe is her play & display. Kundalini is Her
microcosmic representation. She has been depicted as the
Mother Goddess in Pagan philosophies.

Nature is visible Intelligence; Intelligence is invisible
Nature. The Spiritual & the Natural are not different. That
which is spiritual is natural in its ascent & cause. That
which is natural is spiritual in its descent and being.

She is the female component of the Ultimate and all systems
deal with the male and the female components of Reality. The
male component is He ! Consciousness and Force, the Supreme
Self and Nature, Matter and Spirit, Being and Becoming, the
One and the Innumerable, the Formless and then a delirium of
Forms - She and He, two in one, inseparable ! He, outside
Time, outside Space, pure Being, pure Consciousness, the
Great White Silence wherein everything is contained in a
state of involution, contained, yet formless !

She flings forth from Him in an outburst of joy, again to
find Him playing in Time, She and He, two in one ,
inextricable! Can Nature exist without her Lord ? Can He
exist without Nature ?

This is the Purusha and Prakriti of Sankhya, the Brahman and
Maya of Vedanta , the Sive and Shakti of Tantra !

Without Him, I exist not Without Me, He is unmanifest ! -
The Mother of Auroville

It is due to Her Grace that a man becomes a material
success. It is She who gives the successful man the
indomitable Will Power needed for success.

On the other hand, it is also Her Grace which giveth
spiritual success. It is She who gives the devotee the
necessary Self-knowledge, makes him do altruistic acts &
leads him to Self-Actualisation. In other words, She has two
aspects, material & spiritual and Her Grace is absolutely
necessary for success in both the spheres. .

It is said that She, as the Prakriti ( Nature ) of Purusha (
Supreme Self), is the base of the Universe & when She
becomes supremely pleased with the devotee, confers on him
Self-Actualisation !

She is the Creatrix, She is the Mediatrix, She is the
Dispensatrix and the Executrix of the absolute mechanism of
Universal Justice.

Power is Divine and not to be condemned

It is this Power aspect of Consciousness which India has
depicted as the Divine Mother. It is a mistake of the
ethical and the religious mind to condemn Power as something
unworthy because it is in its very nature corrupting and
evil. Despite arguments to the contrary ( Power corrupts and
absolute Power corrupts absolutely), Power, Shakti, Will is
the mover of the worlds and basically is spiritual in origin
and divine in character !

A Power to call Eternity into Time And make the body's joy
as vivid as the soul's !.

The highest philosophic concept is that of the
Philosopher-King, he who possesses powers both eternal and
temporal. They were known as Raja-Rishies in India. Lord
Rama, Lord Krishna, King Janaka were all Raja-Rishies.
Marcus Aurelius & Augustus Caesar in the West were also
reputed Philosopher-Kings. They did not renounce power !

Tantra as related to Astrology

Tides are caused by the Moon. The human body is 65% water. (
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury is 65% water ). If Moon
can effectuate tides, what effect will he have on the human
body which is predominantly water? And what about the
effects of other planets ?

More information about Mundane Astrology & Transit Forecast
can be had from
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/transat.htm

The New Age Movement

New Age - A Paradigm Shift to Divine Consciousness & a
Universal Philosophy

The New Age Movement (NAM) is a revival of spiritual and
divine values and can be called as a Divine Regeneration
Movement. New Age Philosophy has conquered the West
intellectually and Western culture is currently experiencing
a phenomenal shift - sociological, spiritual & ideological.
It's a secular, multi-cultural, multi-religious synthesis,
of the Oriental mystical philosophies, mainly Hinduism,
Buddhism, Taoism & Western Occultism, emphasising Holism,
the doctrine that Reality is organically One ( now taught in
American Universities after Einstein's Theory of Relativity
). Behind the evolution of the species, there is an
evolution of Consciousness. The aim of Life is
Self-Actualisation, to evolve to the level of Unity
Consciousness, defined as the 7th state of Consciousness in
Transcendental Philosophy.

The social disturbance caused by the Vietnam War, the threat
posed by AIDS, the disillusionment with materialistic ideas
and the erosion of faith in Morality & Ethics brought a
sense of futility & meaninglessness in the Western
psyche.The limitations of the Western system of Chemotherapy
& adverse side-effects of antibiotics, sedatives and certain
other drugs and the disillusionment with the promises of
science & technology made millions turn to Oriental
philosophies, occult practices & systems of therapy.(
Interest in Alternative Medicine developed to such an extent
that there are now more than 180 systems of Alternative
Medicine. Exponents of New Age Philosophy in Europe and
America include Transcendentalists like Thoreau, Emerson &
Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), ,
& Theosophy introduced by Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-
1891) & Col Olcott & the philosopher, Annie Besant. As the
world witnessed a Consciousness Revolution, Transcendental
Meditation, Yoga ,Zen, Carlos Castañada, the Beatles,
Holistic Medicine ( both Western and Ayurveda ), Tantra,
Astrology ( both Western & Vedic ) all became popular .

There are 6 million New Age sites on the Web and the NAM
consists of a massive & well organised network consisting of
thousands of groups, trusts, foundations, clubs, lodges, and
spiritual groups whose goal and purpose is to prepare the
world to enter the coming Aquarian Age. ( The Age of
Aquarius ). In astrological symbolism, Aquarius represents
Spirituality and Pisces Rationality. The Piscean Age, an age
of Computer and Cybernetics revolution, will be followed by
an Age of Consciousness Revolution or a Spiritual
Revolution, the Aquarian Age.

Some New Age Organisations are : California New Age Caucus,
New World Alliance, World Goodwill, The Church Universal and
Triumphant, The Theosophical Society, Amnesty International,
Zero Population Growth, the Forum, Planetary Initiative for
the World We Choose, the Club of Rome, Church Universal &
Triumphant, Christian Science, and the Unity School of
Christianity.

New Age believes in the essential goodness of Man and the
Divine Spark in Man and the New Age movement is not a
unified cult system of beliefs and practices, even though
its roots derive from Vedic Philosophy. There is no central
authority, no official leader, no headquarters, nor
membership list, but instead is a network of groups working
toward World Peace and Universal Love. There are millions of
worldwide followers of various New Age practices and the
world is moving from Chaos ( Disorder ) to Cosmos ( Order )
! This is a Phase Transition from Entropy ( Disorder ) to
Order !

Significant influence has been gained by NAM affecting
almost every area of Occidental culture -- Sociology,
Psychology, Medicine, the Government, Ecology, Science,
Arts, Education, the Business Community, the media,
entertainment, sports, and even the Church. Organised
spiritual forms such as Christian Science, Unity and even
forms of Witchcraft ( from the German ' Wicca' meaning the
Wise; Witchcraft means the Craft of the Wise ) are all its
expressions. Various Human Potential Seminars,
Transcendental Meditation, Zen Meditation and some
Alternative Holistic Medicine practices are also its
manifold manifestations.

Some popular New Age publications and journals are New Age
Journal, the Z Files, Clarity, Body Mind Spirit, Yoga
Journal, Gnosis, East West, Noetic Sciences, the Millenium
Being and Omega. The new tendency of people now is to view
everything from a New Age perspective

The major goal of the New Age Movement is to prepare Man for
entering the Aquarian Age and to bring world peace in an
already bruised world. "All is wrong with the world" said
Shaw & some of the other goals of the NAM are to establish
an entirely New World Order in the fields of Economy &
Government. The idea of a World Government was proposed by
Bernard Shaw earlier and was implemented by Mahesh Yogi and
occurs in the writings of the foundational apostle of the
New Age Movement, Alice Bailey.

The word 'Initiation" is derived from the Latin "In ire" to
go within and Initiates were termed by the Great Master as
the salt of the Earth. The mystic Ward defined Reality as
"Within and within and within and within" . Another mystic
described it as "It is hidden, it is hidden and it is
hidden". To the mystic, self evolution is the means and only
by changing and correcting ourselves can we change others .
The primary goals of the movement then, are to prepare the
world to receive the Divine Consciousness and to enter the
Age of Aquarius, thus establishing the New World Order.

New Age Philosophy believes that human evolution can be
accelerated, if not in the entire mass of humanity, at least
in suitable individuals. Human nature is perfectible,
through an intensive process of purification and Initiation.

The New Age Movement is secular & universally diffused over
the earth's surface & its basic underlying philosophy
emphasises Gnosticism and Occultism. (Gnosticism is an
ancient philosophy stating that Divine essence is the
highest reality, and that the Self of man is actually this
Essence. Behind the phenomenal world is the Transcendent
Reality which Intuition alone can see ). It bears a
remarkable resemblance to the Universal Religion that H.G.
Wells predicted would one day take over the world.

The six main characteristics of New Age thinking are: (1)
All is Unity; (2) All is Divine (3) Humanity is divine (4) A
change in Consciousness; (5) All religions are One; and (6)
Cosmic Evolutionary optimism. Basically Dialectical
Integralism, New Age Philosophy unites b