Archives for February 2015

Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy – Part One

Om Shakti Ram Rama Shiva Om…Rejoicing in God completely

The Tantra theology is that there is only God. God the absolute that always has been, is now, and forever shall be is pure Satyam Consciousness without form. Then comes the Word that is from God, of God, and is God, which is the Satyam Consciousness in motion. The pure Satyam Consciousness without motion, and the Word/Satyam Consciousness with motion are both God. From this perfection comes the Holy Stream, the Aum, which is also from God, of God, and is God. The creation of the Soul is from God, of God and is God. With this pure “from God, of God, is God” triune nature of the Soul comes the maya sheath and then we add the individual ego of the Causal, and we have diversification. We don’t just have the pure vibration of this triune nature. Now it manifests and diversifies with the idea of separateness, and also the idea of incompleteness (Original Sin).

The Tantric tradition sees the manifestation as “from God, of God, and is God,” now with diversification, with the Causal, the Astral with its senses, and Physical with its organs of senses, becoming the many faces of the one God. The Tantric philosophy says there is only God, whether in the pure still Consciousness or in motion. It is the only philosophy or religion that teaches this oneness of God.

We must understand the meaning of the sacred mantra, Om Shakti Ram Rama Shiva Om…rejoicing in God completely. To rejoice in God completely means there is only God, God without form, and God manifested all the way to the physical. Shiva and Shakti are ever in union. That means that the limited and/or the temporary patterns of living energy are also God, just God in ever-changing motion. The philosophy of Tantra directs you to put your faith in the triune nature of God, and to that part of your nature that is eternal, that always has been, is now, and forever shall be (God). All forms will come and go, but the absolute Satyam Consciousness will always be pure eternal Satyam Consciousness, both with and without form. This philosophy must be embraced, and then we make the study of, and the practice of Satyam (in stillness and motion) our foremost goal in this journey of the Soul.