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Sexuality and The Tantrik
Sexuality and The Tantrik
And the Kularnava Tantra says that the divine person, or divya, realises
that wine flows from the 1,000 petal lotus, flesh is the sense of duality,
fish is the disordering of the senses and sexual intercourse is the union of
Kundalini with supreme Shiva. Indeed, the commentary to the
famousKarpuradistotra goes further and says that true sexual
intercourse is union with the goddess within. Intercourse with any other
woman is adultery. That may be true for the divya, but not for the vira.
(See Vira Sadhana)
These considerations make it clear that far from tantra being
synonymous with sex, sexuality is a part of the sadhana (work on
oneself) and the tradition, and then, perhaps, only at a certain stage and
for a certain time.