{"collection":"Tantra","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha01_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE enchanting summit of the Lord of Mountains, resplendent with all its various jewels, clad with many a tree and many a creeper, melodious with the song of many a bird, scented with the fragrance of all the season\u2019s flowers, most beautiful, fanned by soft, cool, and perfumed breezes, shadowed by the still shade of stately trees; where cool groves resound with the sweet-voiced songs of troops of Apsara, and in the forest depths flocks of kokila maddened with passion sing; where (Spring) Lord\u2026","title":"Chapter 1 - Questions relating to the Liberation of Beings","word_count":2008},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha10_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI DEVI said:\nI have now learned from Thee, O Lord! of the ordinances relating to Kushandika and the ten Sang-skaras. Do Thou now,O Deva!","title":"Chapter 10 - Rites relating to Vriddhi Shraddha, Funeral Rites, and Purnabhisheka","word_count":6305},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha11_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LISTENING to the injunctions of Shambhu relating to the different castes and stages of life, Aparna was greatly pleased, and questioned Shangkara thus (1):\nShri Devi said:\nThou hast, O Lord! out of Thy kindness for Me and in Thy omniscience, spoken of the customs and the rules of religious conduct and sacraments for the well-being of the world (2). But the men of the Kali Age, being wicked, and blinded by anger and lust, atheists, of wavering minds and addicted to the gratification of their\u2026","title":"Chapter 11 - The Account of Expiatory Rites","word_count":5185},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha12_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI SADASHIVA said:\nO Primordial One! I am speaking to Thee again of the everlasting laws; the wise King may easily rule his subjects if he follows them (1). If Kings did not establish rules, men in their covetousness would quarrel among themselves, even with their friends, relatives, and their superiors (2).","title":"Chapter 12 - An Account of the Eternal and Immutable Dharmma","word_count":3868},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha13_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"PARVATI, the Mother of the three worlds, Her mind engrossed with thoughts for the purification of men polluted with the impurities of the Kali Age, humbly asked Mahesha, the Deva among Devas, who had thus spoken of the essence of all the Nigamas, which is the seed of heaven and final liberation (as follows) (1):\nShri Devi said:\nHow should the form of Mahakali be thought of, She who is the Great Cause, the Primordial Energy, the Great Effulgence, more subtle than the subtlest elements? (2). It\u2026","title":"Chapter 13 - Installation of the Devata","word_count":9038},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha14_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI DEVI said:\nI am grateful to Thee, O Lord of Mercy! in that Thou hast in Thy discourse upon the Worship of the Adya Shakti, spoken, in Thy mercy, of the mode of Worship of various other Devas (1). Thou hast spoken of the Installation of a Movable Shiva-linga, but what is the object of installing an immovable Shiva-linga, and what are the rites relating to the installation of such a Linga?","title":"Chapter 14 - The Consecration of Shiva-linga and Description of the Four Classes of Avadhutas","word_count":6034},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha02_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HAVING heard the words of the Devi, Shangkara, Bestower of happiness on the world, great Ocean of mercy, thus of the truth of things spoke. Sadashiva said:\nO Exalted and Holy One! Benefactress of the universe, well has it been asked by Thee.","title":"Chapter 2 - Introduction to the Worship of Brahman","word_count":1525},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha03_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI DEVI said:\nO Deva of the Devas, great Deva, Guru of Brihaspati himself, Thou Who discourseth of all Scriptures, Mantra, Sadhana, and hast spoken of the Supreme Brahman by the adoration of Whom mortals attain happiness and liberation, do Thou, O Lord! deign to instruct us in the way of service of the Supreme Soul and of the observances, Mantra, and meditation in His worship. It is my desire, O Lord!","title":"Chapter 3 - Description of the Worship of the Supreme Brahman","word_count":4645},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha04_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HAVING listened with attention to that which has been said concerning the worship of the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Devi greatly pleased again thus questioned Shankara (1). Shri Devi said:\nO Lord of the Universe and Husband! I bathe with contentment in the nectar of Thy words concerning the excellent worship of the Supreme, which lead to the well-being of the world and to the path of Brahman, and gives light, intelligence, strength, and prosperity (2-3).","title":"Chapter 4 - Introduction of the Worship of the Supreme Prakriti","word_count":3003},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha05_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI SADASHIVA said:\nThou art the Adya Parama Shakti, Thou art all Power. It is by Thy power that We (the Trinity) are powerful in the acts of creation, preservation, and destruction. Endless and of varied colour and form are Thy appearances, and various are the strenuous efforts whereby the worshippers may realize them.","title":"Chapter 5 - The Formation of the Mantras, Placing of the...","word_count":6848},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha06_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHRI DEVI said:\nAs Thou hast kindness for Me, pray tell Me, O Lord! more particularly about the Pancha-tattvas and the other observances of which Thou hast spoken (1). Shri Sadashiva said:\nThere are three kinds of wine which are excellent \u2013 namely, that which is made from molasses, rice, or the Madhuka flower.","title":"Chapter 6 - Placing of the Shri-patra, Homa, Formation of the Chakra, and other Rites","word_count":5971},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha07_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"PARVATI was pleased at hearing the revelation of the auspicious Mantra of the Adya Kalika, which yields abundant blessings, is the only means of attaining to a knowledge of the Divine essence, and leads to liberation; as also at hearing of the morning rites, the rules relating to bathing, Sandhya, the purification of Bhang, the methods of external and internal Nyasa and worship, the sacrifice of animals, Homa, the formation of the circle of worship, and the partaking of the holy food. Bowing\u2026","title":"Chapter 7 - Hymn of Praise (Stotra), Amulet (Kavacha), ...","word_count":2278},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha08_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AFTER hearing of the various forms of Dharmma, Bhavani, Mother of the worlds, Destructress of all worldly bonds, spoke again to Shankara (1). Shri Devi said:\nI have heard of the different Dharmma, which bring happiness in this world and the next, and bestow piety, wealth, fulfilment of desire, ward off danger, and are the cause of union with the Supreme (2). I wish now to hear of the castes and of the stages of life.","title":"Chapter 8 - The Dharmma and Customs of the Castes and Ashramas","word_count":8521},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha09_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_maha_maha09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Adorable Sadashiva said:\nO Virtuous One! I have spoken to Thee of the custom and religious duties appropriate to the different castes and stages of life. Do thou now listen whilst I tell Thee of the purificatory rites of the different castes (1).","title":"Chapter 9 - The Ten Kinds of Purificatory Rites (Sangskara)","word_count":8571},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas08_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Eight\n \nIt has been the subject of debate whether the Tantrik Pa\u00f1catattva ritual with wine and so forth is a product of Buddhism, and whether it is opposed to Vaidika Dharma. Some have supposed that these rites originally came from yellow Asia, penetrated into India where they received its impress, and again made their way to the north to encounter earlier original forms. I have elsewhere put forward some facts which suggest that these rites may be a continuance, though in another form\u2026","title":"Chapter Eight: Cinacara (Vashishtha and Buddha)","word_count":3665},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas18_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Eighteen\n \nI have often been asked -- In what consists the difference between Vedanta and 'Tantra'. This question is the product of substantial error, for it assumes that Tantra Shastra is not based on Vedanta. I hope that, after many years of work, I have now made it clear that the Tantra Shastra or Agama (whatever be its ultimate origin as to which little is known by anybody) is now, and has been for centuries past, one of the recognized Scriptures of Hinduism, and every form of\u2026","title":"Chapter Eighteen: Shakta Advaitavada","word_count":4209},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas11_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Eleven\n \nThe belief in Shakti or the Divine Power as distinguished from the Divine Essence (Svarupa), the former being generally imagined for purposes of worship as being in female form, is very ancient. The concept of Shakti in Chinese Taoism is not merely a proof of this (for the Shakti notion is much older) but is an indication of the ancient Indian character of the doctrine. There are some who erroneously think, the concept had its origin in \"Sivaic mysticism,\" having its origin\u2026","title":"Chapter Eleven: Shakti in Taoism","word_count":2665},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas05_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Five\n(What follows this bracket is a translation, done in literal fashion, from the German, of an article by the learned Sanskritist, Professor Winternitz, entitled \"Die Tantras und die Religion der Saktas\" published in the Berlin monthly, the Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, 1916, Heft. 3. The article does not show a complete comprehension of its subject-matter, nor was this to be expected.","title":"Chapter Five: The Tantras and the Religion of the Shaktas","word_count":6336},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas04_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Four\nIn writing this Chapter I have in mind the dispute which some have raised upon the question whether the Agamas, or some of them, are Vaidik or non-Vaidik. I do not here deal with the nature and schools of Tantra or Agama nor with their historical origin. Something has been said on these points in the Introductions to the English translations of Pandit Shiva Chandra Vidyarnava's Tantra-tattva.","title":"Chapter Four: Tantra Shastra and Veda","word_count":13719},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas14_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Fourteen\nCit-Shakti is Cit, as Shakti, that is as Power, or that aspect of Cit in which it is, through its associated Maya-Shakti, operative to create the universe. It is a commonly accepted doctrine that the ultimate Reality is Samvid, Caitanya or Cit. But what is Cit?","title":"Chapter Fourteen: Cit-Shakti (The Consciousness Aspect of...","word_count":10368},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas09_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Nine\n \nAdopting for the purpose of this essay, and without discussion as to their accuracy, the general views of Orientalists on chronology and the development of the Buddhistic schools, the history of the Buddhistic Tantra is shortly as follows. The Mahayana (which commenced no one knows exactly when) was represented in the first and second centuries by the great names of Ashvaghosha and Nagarjuna. Its great scripture is the Praj\u00f1aparamita.","title":"Chapter Nine: The Tantra Shastras in China","word_count":2584},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas19_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Nineteen\nA Psychological analysis of our worldly experience ordinarily gives us both the feeling of persistence and change. This personal experience expresses a cosmic truth. An examination of any doctrine of creation similarly reveals two fundamental concepts, those of Being and Becoming, Changelessness and Change, the One and the Many.","title":"Chapter Nineteen: Creation as Explained in the Non-dualis...","word_count":9436},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas01_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter One\n \nA FRIEND of mine who read the first edition of this book suggested that I should add to it an opening Chapter, stating the most general and fundamental principles of the subject as a guide to the understanding of what follows, together with an outline of the latter in which the relation of the several parts should be shown. I have not at present the time, nor in the present book the space, to give effect to my friend's wishes in the way I would have desired, but will not\u2026","title":"Chapter One: Indian Religion As Bharata Dharma","word_count":8114},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas07_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Seven\nThere are some persons who have thought, and still think, that Shakti means force and that the worship of Shakti is the worship of force. Thus Keshub Chunder Sen (New Dispensation, p. 108), wrote:\nFour centuries ago the Shaktas gave way before the Bhaktas.","title":"Chapter Seven: Is Shakti Force?","word_count":1176},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas17_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Seventeen\n \nIn the Eighth Chapter of the unpublished Sammohana Tantra, it is said that Shamkara manifested on earth in the form of Shamkaracarya, in order to root out Buddhism from India. It compares his disciples and himself to the five Mahapreta (who form the couch on which the Mother of the Worlds rests), and identifies his maths with the Amnayas, namely, the Govardhana in Puri with Purvamnaya (the Sampradaya being Bhogavara), and so on with the rest. Whatever be the claims of\u2026","title":"Chapter Seventeen: Shakti and Maya","word_count":5145},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas06_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Six\nShakti who is in Herself pure blissful Consciousness (Cidrupini) is also the Mother of Nature and is Nature itself born of the creative play of Her thought. The Shakta faith, or worship of Shakti, is I believe, in some of its essential features one of the oldest and most wide-spread religions in the world. Though very ancient, it is yet, in its essentials, and in the developed form in which we know it to-day, harmonious with some of the teachings of modern philosophy and science\u2026","title":"Chapter Six: Shakti and Shakta","word_count":15849},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas16_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Sixteen\n \nThe subject of my lecture to-day is Consciousness or Cit, and Matter or Unconsciousness, that is, Acit; the unchanging formlessness and the changing forms. According to Shakta Advaitavada, man is Consciousness-Unconsciousness or Cit-Acit; being Cit-Shakti as regards his Antaratma, and the particularized Maya-Shakti as to his material vehicles of mind and body. The reason that I have selected this subject, amongst the many others on which I might have addressed you, is that\u2026","title":"Chapter Sixteen: Matter and Consciousness","word_count":3273},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas10_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Ten\n \n[This Chapter is an admirably understanding review (reprinted from The Theosophist of July 1919) by Mr. Johan Van Manen, the Tibetan scholar. It was written on the seventh volume of Tantrik Texts which contains the first Tibetan Tantra to be published.","title":"Chapter Ten: A Tibetan Tantra","word_count":4211},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas13_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Thirteen\n \nThe Sarvollasa, a copy of which came into my possession some three years ago, is a rare MS. It is a Samgraha by the Sarvavidyasiddha Sarvanandanatha who, though celebrated amongst the Bengal followers of the Agama, is I should think, almost unknown to the general public. There is a life in Sanskrit of Sarvanandanatha entitled Sarvanandataramgini by his son Shivanatha in which an account of the attainment of his Siddhi is given and I am indebted in respect of this article to a\u2026","title":"Chapter Thirteen: Sarvanandanatha","word_count":1402},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas30_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas30_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Thirty\n \nBrahmanism or Hinduism, as in its later development the former has been called, is not merely a religion. It is a Socio-Economic System, the foundation of which is the Law of Caste and Stages of life. That System has its culture of which several forms of Religion, resting on a certain common basis, are but a part.","title":"Chapter Thirty: Conclusions","word_count":4467},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas03_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Three\n \nA VERY common expression in English writings is \"The Tantra\"; but its use is often due to a misconception and leads to others. For what does Tantra mean? The word denotes injunction (Vidhi), regulation (Niyama), Shastra generally or treatise.","title":"Chapter Three: Tantra Shastra and Veda","word_count":4610},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas12_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twelve\n \nA NOT uncommon modern criticism upon the Indian Shastras is that they mutually conflict. This is due to a lack of knowledge of the doctrine of Adhikara and Bhumika, particularly amongst Western critics, whose general outlook and mode of thought is ordinarily deeply divergent from that which has prevailed in India. The idea that the whole world should follow one path is regarded by the Hindus as absurd, being contrary to Nature and its laws.","title":"Chapter Twelve: Alleged Conflicts of Shastras","word_count":4655},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas28_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas28_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-Eight\n \nIn connection with the doctrine and Sadhana just described it is apposite to cite the following legend from Tibet, which shows how, according to its Sadhakas, it may be either rightly or wrongly interpreted, and how, in the latter case, it leads to terrible evils and their punishment. Guru Padma-sambhava, the so-called founder of \"Lamaism,\" had five women disciples who compiled several accounts of the teachings of their Master and hid them in various places for the\u2026","title":"Chapter Twenty-eight: Matam Rutra (The Right and Wrong Interpretation)","word_count":7477},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas25_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-five\n \nThe world has never altogether been without the Wisdom, nor its Teachers. The degree and manner in which it has been imparted have, however, necessarily varied according to the capacities of men to receive it. So also have the symbols by which it has been conveyed.","title":"Chapter Twenty-five: Varnamala (The Garland of Letters)","word_count":1863},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas29_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-nine\n \nThe word \"Yoga\" comes from the root \"yuj\" which means \"to join\" and, in its spiritual sense, it is that process by which the human spirit is brought into near and conscious communion with, or is merged in, the Divine Spirit, according as the nature of the human spirit is held to be separate from (Dvaita, Vishishtadvaita) or one with (Advaita) the Divine Spirit. As, according to Shakta doctrine, with which alone we are concerned, the latter proposition is affirmed, Yoga is\u2026","title":"Chapter Twenty-nine: Kundalini Shakta (Yoga)","word_count":9050},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas21_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-one\nIt is well said that Ritual is the Art of Religion. As practiced by the Hindus, it is not rightly judged, because the religious and philosophical doctrines of which it is a practical expression and method are either unknown or misunderstood. If we add to incapacity, a temperament hostile to all Ritualism, the resultant criticism is \"mummery,\" \"idolatry,\" \"gibberish,\" and so forth.","title":"Chapter Twenty-one: Hindu Ritual","word_count":7032},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas27_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-Seven\nThe notoriety of the Shakta Pa\u00f1catattva ritual with wine and women has thrown into the shade not only the practical topics with which I have dealt, but every other, including the valuable philosophical presentment of Vedanta contained in the Shakta Tantra. Notwithstanding, and indeed because, of the off-hand and (in certain respects) ignorant condemnation which this ritual has received, the interests of both scholarship and fairness (which by the way should be identical)\u2026","title":"Chapter Twenty-seven: The Pa\u00f1catattva (The Secret Ritual)","word_count":18976},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas26_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-Six\nSadhana is that, which produces Siddhi or the result sought, be it material or spiritual advancement. It is the means or practice by which the desired end may be attained and consists in the training and exercise of the body and psychic faculties, upon the gradual perfection of which Siddhi follows. The nature or degree of spiritual Siddhi depends upon the progress made towards the realization of the Atma whose veiling vesture the body is.","title":"Chapter Twenty-six: Shakta Sadhana (The Ordinary Ritual)","word_count":21453},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas23_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-three\n \nThe word \"religious\" in the title of this lecture has been inserted in order to exclude magical ritual, with which I do not deal, though I have a word or two to say on the subject. As regards the word \"Hindu,\" it must be remembered that there is considerable variety of doctrine and ritual, for there are a number of communities of Indian worshippers. Though, perhaps, too much stress is generally laid on these differences, and sufficient notice is not taken of fundamental\u2026","title":"Chapter Twenty-three: The Psychology of Hindu Religious Ritual","word_count":5808},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas22_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty-two\n \nWhen your representative asked me to speak this evening, he suggested to me as my subject, that Shastra which is a practical application of the Vedantic teaching. Mere talk about Vedanta is nothing but a high form of amusement. If more than this is to be achieved, definite Sadhana is necessary.","title":"Chapter Twenty-two: Vedanta and Tantra Shastra","word_count":1896},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas20_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Twenty\n \nIntroductory\n \nThe worship of the Great Mother as the Grand Multiplier is one of the oldest in the world. As I have elsewhere said, when we throw our minds back upon the history of this worship, we discern even in the most remote and fading past the Figure, most ancient, of the mighty Mother of Nature. I suspect that in the beginning the Goddess everywhere antedated, or at least was predominant over, the God.","title":"Chapter Twenty: The Indian Magna Mater","word_count":8068},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas02_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_sas_sas02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Chapter Two\nThere is no word of wider content in any language than this Sanskrit term meaning 'Power'. For Shakti in the highest causal sense is God as Mother, and in another sense it is the universe which issues from Her Womb. And what is there which is neither one nor the other?","title":"Chapter Two: Shakti: The World as Power","word_count":8667},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_index_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Bhadra Kali, from Moor, The Hindu Pantheon [1810], plate 28: Public domain image | Hymn to Kali by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) [1922] | \nThis is Arthur Avalon's rendering of the Hymn to Kali, with extensive notes on the Tantric implications of the work. Aside from the literary value of the Hymn, this is an essential reference work for scholars of Hinduism.--J.B. Hare","title":"Hymn to Kali Index","word_count":65},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_errata_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_errata_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"page 22: 'conciousness'->'consciousness'\npage 23: 'performancs'->'performance'\npage 35: 'Pancha-mak\u0101ra'->'Pa\u00f1ca-mak\u0101ra'\npage 37: 'Kul\u0101rnava-Tantra'->'Kul\u0101r\u1e47ava-Tantra'\npage 41: 'Brahmar\u016bpin\u012b'->'Brahmar\u016bpi\u1e47\u012b'","title":"Hymn to Kali: Errata","word_count":15},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk04_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AIM\nI make obeisance to the Lord Guru, the wish-granting Tree of Suras, eternal Consciousness and Bliss Itself, the highest of the highest, Brahman, \u015aiva Himself. I make obeisance to Her who by Her \u015aakti of three Gu\u1e47as creates, maintains, and at the end of the Kalpa withdraws, the world and then alone is. Devoutly I call to mind Her, the Mother of the whole universe, \u015aiv\u0101 Herself.","title":"Hymn to Kali: Introduction","word_count":8770},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk03_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THIS celebrated Kaula Stotra, which is now translated from the Sanskrit for the first time, is attributed to Mah\u0101k\u0101la Himself. The Text used is that of the edition published at Calcutta in 1899 by the Sanskrit Press Depository, with a commentary in Sanskrit by the late Mah\u0101mahop\u0101dhy\u0101ya K\u1e5b\u1e63h\u1e47an\u0101tha Ny\u0101ya-pa\u00f1c\u0101nana, who was both very learned in Tantra-\u015a\u0101stra and faithful to his Dharma. He thus refused the offer of a good Government Post made to him personally by a former Lieutenant-Governor on\u2026","title":"Hymn to Kali: Preface","word_count":3675},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk05_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"O MOTHER 1 and Spouse of the Destroyer of the three cities, 2 they who thrice recite 3 Thy B\u012bja 4 formed by omitting from Karp\u016bra, the middle and last consonants and the vowels, but adding V\u0101m\u0101k\u1e63\u012b and Bindu, 5 the speech of such, whether in poetry and prose, like that of men who have attained all powers, 6 issues of a surety with all ease from the hollow of their mouth, O Thou who art beauteous with beauty of a dark rain cloud. 7\nCOMMENTARY\n(INNER SENSE)\nWith respectful obeisance to the\u2026","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 1","word_count":1068},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk14_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IF by night, 1 Thy devotee 2 unclothed, with dishevelled hair, recites whilst meditating on Thee, 3 Thy mantra, 4 when with his \u015aakti 5 youthful, full-breasted, and heavy-hipped, such an one makes all powers subject to him, and dwells on the earth ever 6 a seer. 7\nCOMMENTARY\n'Laya Yoga'\nIs here described in this and following verses. Ghera\u1e47da-Sa\u1e41hit\u0101 says, 'One should become \u015aaktimaya by doing Yoni Mudra.","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 10","word_count":513},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk15_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"O SPOUSE of Hara, 1 should (a S\u0101dhaka) daily 2 recite Thy mantra for the space of a year meditating the while 3 with knowledge of its meaning 4 upon Thee intent 5 upon Thy union 6 with the great Mah\u0101k\u0101la, above whom Thou art, 7 then such a knower 8 has every pleasure that he wills upon the earth, 9 and holds all great powers 10 in the grasp of his lotus-like hands. COMMENTARY\n'Spouse of Hara' (Haravadh\u016b)\nCharmer of Mah\u0101k\u0101la. 'Mentally recite' (Vicintya japati)\nThe Kaul\u0101val\u012b says that mental\u2026","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 11","word_count":432},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk16_htm","collection":"Tantra","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tantra_htk_htk16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"O MOTHER, Thou givest birth to and protectest the world, and at the time of dissolution dost withdraw to Thyself 1 the earth and all things; therefore Thou art Brahm\u0101, and the Lord of the three worlds, the Spouse of \u015ar\u012b, 2 and Mahe\u015ba, 3 and all other beings and things. 4 Ah Me! how, then, shall I praise Thy greatness?","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 12","word_count":291}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":110}