The truth about Goddess

Maria Martins - Ma Bhakti Shakti

There is a lot of misunderstanding regarding Tantra today. This topic is subject to extensive fabrication especially under the name of neo-Tantra. The sad result is that many people uninformed of the truth about Tantra fell victims to those “teachers”, “goddesses” or “schools of Tantra” who in disguises promote lust and prostitution. The incentive is to make money on the expense of the naive. Tantra isn’t a licentious product and has nothing to do with the prostitution industry.

The concept has evolved over thousands of years. It is undoubtedly spirituality of a different kind the Western tradition understands by it under the creed of Christianity. The current set-up of teachings in many so-called “schools of Tantra” is for Tantra to join the porno industry on the assumption that anything that talks about sex is for the market to be exploited as such. Far from being part of the pleasure industry or the religious establishment, Tantra is hard to be understood by the Western mind.

The man-woman sexual relationship in monotheistic traditions was always a sensitive subject. It is simply beyond the minds settings created by monotheism that sexual relationships could be called holy. What Tantra says, particularly Kaula Tantra is that man-woman interaction, which is conducive to creation, could become holy if the relevant conditions are met. The holiness the Tantric way comes from logical thinking. If God, the creator is holy, why the instruments of creation, the man and woman engaged in the sexual act conducive to creation, couldn’t be called holy? Why the sexual act of creation couldn’t be called ‘holy sex’? This is what Tantra does precisely. The restoration of holiness within the man-woman sexual partners is a major topic in Tantra.

How Tantra is practiced and portrayed by the neo-Tantra environment? It appears to become a Tantric goddess is as easy as having sex with a self-appointed Tantric god. Those claiming to know and impart Tantra to the public follow such kinds of fabrications in breach to the foundations of Tantric tradition.

Becoming a Tantric goddess isn’t easy at all. It requires a lot of work and extensive knowledge. Next to it, only an ordained Kaula Tantra guru could appoint someone to be a Tantric goddess or a Tantric god. Kaulism, as this spirituality is called within scholarly circles, is a solid and rich tradition needs not to be distorted.

Here at Tantrananda School of Tantra we feel the need to protect the reputation of Kaula Tantra by following the traditional approach to rules and regulations of the Kaula Tantra lineage. We want to warn the public that Tantra being mixed with prostitution isn’t the real Tantra. Those spiritual people willing to consider Tantra spirituality should be cautious about other interpretations given to the Tantric concepts.

It has to be extensive knowledge and Bhakti (devotion) involved in any Tantric teachings. Beside it, there has to be a Kuala Tantra guru figure behind any school of Tantra. Those willing to learn Tantra should look for such credentials.

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