Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics Sahitya Akademi Delhi if I do not take

if I do not take my spiritual calling in all earnestness

Swamiji describes the state of enlightenment as one of "becoming present"

it analyses the meaning of sect and schism from a comparative perspective

coupled with a conspicuous lack of the mystic hype that is usually associated with most ancient sciences

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics Sahitya Akademi Delhi if I do not takeA Complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life Tantra has played a central yet conflicted role in the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always sex tremely other, Tantra has proved