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- Tantric experience means neither to be repressive nor to be
indulgent. Tantric experience is possible only if you move deep into
meditation, otherwise not. When you become very very still, silent,
aware, alert, then only is it possible that you will know something
of tantra. Otherwise, tantra can also become an excuse for
indulgence -- a new name, a religious name. And you can move into
indulgence behind the name of tantra. Names won't make much change;
your being needs change.
- Tantra says that before you make love to a woman or to a man,
first pray -- because it is going to be a divine meeting of
energies. God will surround you. Wherever two lovers are, there is
God. Wherever two lovers' energies are meeting and mingling, there
is life, alive, at its best; God surrounds you. Churches are empty;
love-chambers are full of God. If you have tasted love the way
Tantra says to taste it, if you have known love the way Tao says to
know it, then by the time you reach forty-two, love starts
disappearing on its own accord. And you say goodbye to it with deep
gratitude, because you are fulfilled. It has been delightful, it has
been a blessing; you say good-bye to it.
- Tantra belongs to Shiva, and the Baul is an offshoot of the same
tree. Tantra says, "Everything happens in its own right time, you
need not force it. Your force will not help. It will be a
disturbance. It may destroy, but it can never be creative. One has
to be very effortless, spontaneous. One has to be in a let-go."
- Tantra has special methods how to go on drinking and yet remain
aware. YOU cannot be aware even without drinking. Tantra has methods
to slowly slowly drink, and keep awareness, not to lose track of
your awareness. Slowly slowly, the quantity of your drug has to be
increased as you increase in your awareness. A moment comes when --
you will be surprised to know, still there are people in the East
who practice it -- a moment comes, when no drug can affect your
consciousness at all.
Then the last thing they try is this: they keep poisonous snakes and
they allow the snake to bite them on their tongue; that is the last
method. Ordinarily a man will die.... These snakes are absolutely
poisonous. Three percent of the snakes in India are dangerous; you
cannot survive their bite -- once bitten you are gone. But these
tantra masters will remain alert even in that moment and they will
not die. Their bodies have become accustomed to all kinds of poisons
and they have become alert, so alert that no drug can affect them.
- Tantra has an attitude about sex. The reason? -- it tries to
redress what the society has done. Tantra is medical. The society
has repressed sex; Tantra comes as a remedy to help you redress
balance. You have leaned too much to the left; Tantra comes and
helps you to lean to the right. And to redress the balance sometimes
you have to lean too much to the right, only then the balance is
gained. Have you not seen a rope walker, a tightrope walker? He
carries a staff in his hand to keep balance. If he feels he is
leaning too much to the left, he immediately starts leaning to the
right. Then again he feels that now he has leaned too much to the
right, he starts leaning towards the left. This is how he keeps in
the middle. Tantra is a remedy.
- one thing to be remembered always: if you are not very alert you
may go on believing that you are moving into tantra, and you may be
simply rationalizing your sexuality -- it may be nothing but sex,
rationalized in the terminology of tantra. If you move into sex with
awareness, it can turn into tantra. If you move into tantra with
unawareness, it can fall and become ordinary sex. It has happened in
India -- because only India has tried it. All tantra schools in
India, sooner or later, were reduced to sex orgies. It is very
difficult to keep aware... it is almost impossible to keep aware. If
from the very beginning the discipline has not gone very deep in
you, there is every possibility that you will start deceiving
yourself. Tantra schools arose in India with great energy, with
great insight. And they had something -- because that is the last
center humanly available: the seventh is superhuman, the seventh is
divine. The sixth is the spiritual center.
From sex to tantra: a great revolution, a mutation, is possible in
man. And in the Eat, people became aware that if you become
meditative while making love, the quality of sex changes and
something new enters into it -- it becomes tantric, it becomes
prayerful, it becomes meditative... it becomes SAMADHI. And a
natural flow happens: from the third you can jump to the sixth --
you can bypass the fourth and the fifth. It is a great temptation, a
great leap -- you can bypass, a shortcut -- but dangerous too,
because you may be simply deceiving yourself... and man is very
clever -- very clever in finding rationalizations.
- You can find rationalizations. The temptation is always there --
you can find good reasons for wrong motives. Tantra can any moment
become just a garbed sexuality; just in the guise of tantra, nothing
but sexuality. Then it is dangerous, more dangerous than ordinary
sex -- ordinary sex is at least honest. You don't pretend, you don't
claim something higher; you simply say it is ordinary sex. But
tantra can be dangerous: you start pretending that this is something
higher, something superhuman, something not of this world. Keep this
in mind.
- In tantra they say: Never make love unless you have checked your
nostril -- never make love. If the man is breathing from the
feminine nostril then the woman has to breathe from the male
nostril. Then there will be real orgasm. Otherwise, love will be
just a wastage of energy -- not more than sneezing. You will feel
relived after a sneeze -- a good sneeze, one feels relieved -- but
nothing much will happen out of it.
- Tantra is basically spiritual sexology ... because man's mind is
perverted throughout the world by religions teaching repression of
sex. Tantra is the only science which teaches you expression of sex
-- not as indulgence, but as a spiritual discipline. This is a
transformation of a biological phenomenon into spirituality.
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