Tantra Yoga
Tantra yoga philosophy is a holistic approach to
understand the cosmological force with the study of macrocosm
in the perspective of microcosm. It offers a realistic mode to
realize the highest principles of philosophy within the
periphery of a regular life. The philosophy of Tantra yoga
philosophy is to learn the entire tree of life despite limiting
itself into a single branch of the tree.
Here the tree implies the microcosm which is a wise assembly
of assorted constituents connected together by the virtue of a
unifying law known as dharma. The aim of Tantra yoga philosophy
is to understand this law governing inherently all the elements
in nature.
Principles
The principle of Tantra yoga philosophy is to develop
awareness in all the regimes of psyche senses – conscious,
subconscious and unconscious states. In order to attain this,
we need to go through deprogramming at the first step followed
by reprogramming of mind.
According to Tantra philosophy, our birth on a particular
time and space settles on our initial programming, which is
intrinsically influenced by heredity and extrinsically by
environment. If our lives are blessed and we do not find
apparent problems while interacting with life’s events, we
never show our willingness to alter the course of life.
But, when we experience difficulty while moving through the
life path or start to search for something not accessible with
the help of common knowledge, we tend to change our defined
life course. Tantra yoga philosophy offers the line and the
instruments to the seeker.
Tantra yoga philosophy helps us to recognize a variety of
issues concerning the persuasion of our thoughts and feelings
and to go beyond the obstructions to our development arising
from unawareness, bigotry, connection to our animal qualities,
and self-centeredness. With the help of Tantra yoga philosophy,
we can learn the inherent principle of nature in order to
create peace, harmony and order with the cosmological
forces.
Philosophy
This cosmological plane is the outcome of two opposite
principles, one is static and the other one is dynamic. The
former is called Shiva, while the later is known as Shakti. The
combination of these two principles is what forming the entire
universal plane, referred to as Shiva-Shakti. Every single
element in the nature is evolved on the basis of these two
principles.
The external part of each creation is dynamic, while the
internal part of every creation is static. Shakti has no
creation or termination. The energy or Shakti travels in an
orderly fashion with changing phases of motion and rest. Thus,
the evolution itself is a continuous process of creation,
maintenance and obliteration.
The motivational power behind the eternal process of
evolution is desire or Ichcha-Shakti. This desire exists within
Brahman, the nameless, formless and non-characteristic aspects
of divine. Tantra yoga philosophy assumes Ichcha-Shakti as the
principal motivating force of the cosmos, so it does not
recommend its aspirants to relinquish desire.
Unlike many other spiritual studies Tantra yoga philosophy
does not consider desire as an obstruction to attain higher
consciousness, it asserts that desires are truly natural
phenomenon and as long as we are personified, we can not simply
avoid them. Tantra yoga philosophy provides a wide range of
practical tools that we can implement for reprogramming our
sense of awareness and desire.
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