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| THE TANTRAYUDHA OF SAI RAM, VOLUME 39
BY SWAMI TANTRASANGHA
THE UNION OF SHIVA & SHAKTI IN THE AMRITANUBHAVA OF JNANESHWAR Amrita-anubhava Chapter I - The Union of Shiva and Shakti 1. Thus have I paid homage to the God and Godess who are the limitless 2. On the charming spot, the Lover Himself, out of overflowing love, 3. Out of deep longing THEY SWALLOW EACH OTHER, and again emit each 4. They are neither completely identical nor completely different. We 5. How strong is their desire to enjoy themselves ! THEY BECOME ONE 6. They are so afraid of their separation that although they have 7. Even though they perceive the animate and inanimate nature 8. They are seated on the same ground and they wear the 9. The difference itself that tried to discover duality for enjoying 10. It is through God that the other is Goddess, and without Her the 11. Oh ! How sweet is their UNION! The great world is too small for 12. They treat each other as their very life, and they do not create 13. These are the only two inmates in the home of the universe. When 14. If either of them happens to wake up, the whole house is swallowed 15. Each became a half part of the whole for the process of diversity. 16. Both of them are objects to each other. Both are subjects to each 17. Shiva alone lives happily in the nominally different forms of the 18. Two lutes produce one musical note. The flowers are TWO but the 19. Two lips utter but one word and two eyes give but one vision. In 20. So the ETERNAL COUPLE manifesting duality is enjoying the DISH of 21. The chaste and well devoted Sakti cannot live without her Lord. 22. The two cannot be distingushed because the appearance of her Lord 23. We cannot distinguish sugar and sweetness, camphor and fragrance. 24. While trying to gather the rays we get hold of the flame itself. 25. The sun shines on account of his lustre, but the essence of it is 26. An object is the cause of its reflection. The reflection is the 27. The essence of all void became Purusha through her, while the 28. Siva Himself formed His beloved without whom Siva loses His own 29. Her form is the cause of God and His glory manifested in the 30. Blushing at her formless husband and her own graceful form, she 31. There was scarcity even of UNITY. But she, the fortunate one, 32. She manifested the glory of her Lord by MELTING HER BODY, while by 33. He assumes the form of a seer through his love to see her. If he 34. He assumes the form of the UNIVERSE through her importunities and 35. He is so subtle that he is not visible though manifest. He assumed 36. The Siva awakened by her, is satisfied when he EATS the dishes in 37. When her husband is asleep, she gives BIRTH to all the things 38. When the husband hides himself, he is NOT DISCOVERED WITHOUT HER. 39. Siva enjoys his own bliss by embracing her. Though he is all 40. She is his form, while HER BEAUTY IS DUE TO HIM, who is her lover. 41. Siva and Sakti make up ONE WHOLE just like air and its motion, 42. Sakti is INSEPARABLE from Siva, just like the musk and its 43. If night and day would go to the abode of the sun, both of them 44. As a matter of fact, Siva and Sakti (because of their duality) are 45. Jnanadeva says, "I show my respect to the couple of Siva and
Sakti 46. By embracing each other both of them MERGE INTO ONE UNITY, just as 47. Para with Vaikhari remains silent in the process of discovering 48. The air with its motion MERGED in the sky. The sun with its lustre 49. In the same way while trying to see them, the seer and his sight 50. Both of them are like a STREAM where not only the knower cannot 51. Under these circumstances, if I remain separate to pay my homage, 52. But my salutation is like that of an ornament which is not 53. Where the word 'tongue' is uttered by the tongue, is there any 54. The Ocean and the Ganges INTERMINGLE, and though their names are 55. The Sun shows in himself the object as well as the subject of 56. If MOONLIGHT brightens the surface of the MOON, or if a lamp is 57. When the lustre of a pearl plays upon it, its beauty and purity 58. IS PRANAVA DIVIDED into different parts because it containd three 59. If the capital of UNITY is not lessened and the advantage of 60. Therefore, WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATIN Siva and Sakti, I proceed to 61. By giving up the MIRROR, the image MERGES in its object. A ripple 62. A man comes to his own as soon as he wakes from his sleep. In the 63. The salt giving up itself becomes the ocean, so giving up my ego
I 64. I have paid my homage to Siva and Sakti by UNITING with them just |
Editor's note: By uniting male and female, one's perception is a
uniting of subject and object, via soul travel or OOBE's (out-of-body-
experience.)
URINE THERAPY IS FROM JESUS!
Thanks Chris! Bishop Pike entered my life two times. Before Pike's
son committed suicide, he told his dad that, should he die, he would
try to contact him from the dead, to prove life-after-death. After
his death, strange things started happening around the house, similar
to the "docudrama", "The Amityville Horror". A psychic from
my own
hometown, the Rev. Arthur Ford, was called in to act as a trance
medium to contact the dead boy, and a famous article came out about
it in Life Magazine.
Pike later got trapped in the Judean desert with his wife. She
managed to walk out of the desert by drinking her own urine. Her
husband got separated from her and died. This story also hit the
news "big time". This was years before anyone knew about Urine
Therapy. When my teacher, a psychic, learned of this story, he
started having recollections of this practice from past lives. I met
him in 1971 and became his disciple. He looked just like a wandering
penniless hobo with a fanatical devotion to Jesus.
He gave me a short explanation of his "revelation", with a couple
quotes from the Bible, to support his assertion. We both recycled our
own urine, years before anyone knew anything at all about Urine
Therapy. Several years later, I found J.W. Armstrong's book, "The
Water of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy". I was in absolute
exhilaration to have this information about what was heretofore a
relatively unsubstantiated theory. Of course, now, you just
type "Urine Therapy" into your search engine, and up pops over 3
million sites for it!
No amount of proof will be enough for that faithless "Blaspheming
Goliath" majority. For that reason, and numerous other ominous
portents, I believe we are the sinners who have doomed ourselves to
death and dishonor in a final cataclysm, in which, ironically, Urine
Therapy &/or Urine Tnatra (the Marriage Supper) can easily be the
very best survival techniques, as Bishop Pike's wife and thousands of
others have proven throughout history. Praise the Word Made Flesh. -
Dr. J.
--- In GospelofThomas@yahoogroups.com, "mystic_cgj" <cgj@i...>
wrote:
> --- In GospelofThomas@yahoogroups.com, "Kimmie" <kimmielee@c...>
wrote:
> > Hi Rachael. I live in AZ. During the summer a lot of ill
equipped
> border crossers die out in our deserts. Some who manage to get
> through have resorted to drinking their urine to survive. That
would
> be the only time I would consider it too.
> > Therapee...heehee
> > Kimmie
> You should check out Bishop Pike's last days.
> Chris
ELIJAH'S CONTEST WITH THE PRIESTS OF BAAL
In my opinion, after long years of study, it is folly to teach Tantra
without any mention of the more ordinary problems of healing with
Urine Fasting. These cases may seem trivial, but are, in fact, at the
very core of the subject of Tantra. Tantra is now taught as a method,
completely separate from Urine Therapy, fasting, and the curing of
diseases. Some even teach it has nothing to do with the opposite
sex!!!
All I can say is, such false shepherds should study scriptures and
contemplate symbology. Otherwise, they should seek a psychiatrist or
be charged with defrauding their naive students out of their money.
Jai Om. (By the Way, Om means Tantra). Disagree? Want to arrange a
contest? In the Bible, Elijah arranged such a contest with the 400
priests of Baal. Each side was to practice their own method of
invoking the Holy Spirit Fire of Kundalini. Elijah's "sacrifice" was
only water, and he won!
Let's do it again, OK? Come on guys. Stop hiding, and let's do some
experimental research. A duel between my scriptural method and yours.
I am not afraid. Even if I am proved wrong (I won't be), we will both
have the pleasure of discovering the Truth of the matter. You don't
have anything to hide do you? You haven't valued money more than life
itself(!), have you? Something to lose by Salvation from Suffering? I
wouldn't be surprised... - Dr. Jhani Picasso
Welcome to the group. Urine makes you have the runs, so that is
normal. Diahrrea is God's own "high enema". Drink as much water as
you wish, but not so much that you urinate more than once every hour.
Distilled or purified water is best. If you have to get nourishment,
make it liquid - not solids. Drink all the urine you pass, if
possible. The runs is nature's way of cleaning out those "sewer
pipes", called intestines. Thanks for appreciating our messages,
which we struggle to do well at. When someone finds them offensive, I
tell them it is because they are not entirely with the Truth. When I
left India and returned to America, it was as if something in me
died. In India, I was a missionary, but in America, I cannot even
face the people, but must witness by writing, keeping a safe distance
between me and them. Nevertheless, there is freedom (so far). Jai Om.
Allah has got a brand new bag, called Love and Truth. Sai Ram
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Menstrual Blood
From Barbara Walker's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
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From the earliest human cultures, the mysterious magic of creation
was thought to reside in the blood women gave forth in apparent
harmony with the moon, and which was occasionally retained in the
womb to 'coagulate' into a baby. Men regarded this blood with holy
dread, as the life essence, inexplicably shed without pain,
wholly foreign to male experience.
Most words for menstruation also meant such things as
incomprehensible, supernatural, sacred, spirit, deity. Like the Latin
sacred, old Arabian words for 'pure' and 'impure' both applied to
menstrual blood and to that only. The Maoris stated explicitly that
human souls are made of menstrual blood, which when retained in the
womb 'assumes human form and grows into a man.' Africans said
menstrual blood is 'congealed to fashion a man'. Aristotle said the
same: human life is made of 'coagulum' of menstrual blood. Pliny
called menstrual blood the 'material substance of generation',
capable of forming 'a curd, which afterwards in process of time
quickeneth and groweth to the form of a body.' This primitive notion
of the prenatal function of menstrual blood was still taught in
European medical schools up to the 18th century.
Basic ideas about menstrual blood came from the Hindu theory that as
the Great Mother creates, her substances become thickened and forms a
curd or clot; solid matter is produced as a 'crust'. This was the way
she gave birth to the cosmos, and women employ the same method on a
smaller scale. According to Daustinius, 'the fruit in the womb is
nourished by the mother's blood....The menstruum does not fail the
fruit for nourishment, till it at the proper time comes to the light
of the day.'
Indians of South America said all mankind was made of 'moon blood' in
the beginning. The same idea prevailed in ancient Mesopotamia, where
the Great Goddess Ninhursag made mankind out of clay and infused with
her "blood of life." Under her alternate name of Mammetun or Aruru
the Great, the Potter, she taught women to form clay dolls and smear
them with menstrual blood as a conception- charm, a piece of magic
that underlay the name of Adam, from the feminine adamah,
meaning "bloody clay," though scholars more delicately translated
it "red earth."
The Bible's story of Adam was lifted from an older female-oriented
creation myth recounting the creation of man from clay and moonblood.
So was the Koran's creation story, which said Allah "made man out of
flowing blood"; but in pre-Islamic Arabia, Allah was the Goddess of
creation, Al-Lat. The Romans also had traces of the original creation
myth. Plutarch said man was made of earth, but the power that made a
human body grow was the moon, source of menstrual blood.
The lives of the very gods were dependent on the miraculous power of
menstrual blood. In Greece it was euphemistically called
the "supernatural red wine" given to the gods by Mother Hera in her
virgin form, as Hebe. The root myths of Hinduism reveal the nature of
this 'wine'. At one time all gods recognized the supremacy of the
Great Mother, manifesting herself as the spirit of creation (Kali-
Maya). She 'invited them to bath in the bloody flow of her womb and
to drink of it; and the gods, in holy communion, drank of the
fountain of life -- (hic est sanguis meus!) -- and bathed in it,
and rose blessed to the heavens'. To this day, clothes allegedly
stained with the GOddess's menstrual blood are greatly prized as
healing charms. W.R. Smith reported that the value of the gum acacia
as an amulet "is connected to the idea that it is menstruous blood,
i.e., that the tree is a woman." For religious ceremonies, Australian
aborigines painted their sacred stones, churingas, and themselves
with red orche, declaring that it was really women's menstrual blood.
The esoteric secret of the gods was that their mystical powers of
longevity, authority, and creativity came from the same female
essence. The Norse god Thor for example reached the magic land of
enlightenment and eternal life by bathing in a river filled with the
menstrual blood of 'giantesses' -- that is of the Primal
Matriarchs, "Powerful Ones" who governed the elder gods before Odin
brought his 'Asians' (Aesir) out of the East. Odin acquired supremacy
by stealing and drinking the 'wise blood' from the triple cauldron in
the womb of the Mother-Earth, the same Triple Goddess known as Kali-
Maya in the southeast Asia.
Odin's theft of menstrual magic paralleled that of Indra, who stole
the ambrosia of immortality in the same way. Indian myth called the
sacred fluid Soma -- in Greek, "the body", because the word's eastern
root referred to a mystical substance of the body. Soma was the
object of so much holy dread that its interpretations were many.
Soma was produced by the churning of the primal sea (Kali's 'ocean of
blood' or sometimes 'sea of milk'). Or Soma was secreted by the Moon-
Cow. Or Soma was carried in the 'white pot' (belly) of Mohini the
Enchantress. Or the source of Soma was the moon. Or from Soma all the
gods were born. Or Soma was the secret name of the Mother Goddess and
the active part of the 'soul of the world'.
Soma was drunk by priests at sacrificial ceremonies and mixed with
milk as a healing charm; therefore it was not milk. Soma was
especially revered on Somvara, Monday, the day of the moon. In an
ancient ceremony called Soma-vati, women of Maharastra
circumambulated the sacred female-symbolic fig tree whenever the new
moon fell on a Monday.
Some myths claimed the Goddess under her name of Lakshmi, "Fortune"
or "Sovereignty", gave Soma to Indra to make him king of the gods.
His wisdom, power, and curiously feminine capacity for pregnancy,
came from Lakshmi's mystic drink, 'of which none tastes who dwells on
earth.' On drinking it straight from the Goddess, Indra became like
her, the Mount of Paradise with its four rivers, "many-hued" like
the
Goddess's rainbow veils, rich in cattle and fruiting vegetation. The
Goddess's blood became his wisdom. Similarly, Greeks believed the
wisdom of men or god was centered in his blood, the soul-stuff given
by his mother.
Egyptian pharaohs became divine by ingesting 'the blood of Isis,' a
soma-like ambrosia called sa. Its hieroglyphic sign was the same as
the sign of the vulva, a yonic loop like the one on the ankh or Cross
of Life. Painted red, this loop signified the female genital and the
Gate of Heaven. Amulets buried with the dead specifically prayed Isis
to deify the deceased with her magic blood. A special amulet called
the Tjet represented Isis's vulva and was formed of red substance -
jasper, carnelian, red porcelain, red glass, or red wood. This amulet
was said to carry the redeeming power of the blood of Isis.
The same elixir of immortality received the name of amrita in Persia.
Sometimes it was called the Milk of the Mother Goddess, sometimes a
fermented drink, sometimes sacred blood. Always it was associated
with the moon. "Dew and rain becoming vegetable sap, sap becoming the
milk of the cow, and the milk then becoming converted into blood; --
Amrita, water, sap, milk, and blood represent but differing states of
the one elixir. The vessel or cup of this immortal fluid is the
moon."
Celtic kings became gods by drinking the 'red mead' dispensed by the
Fairy Queen, Mab, whose name was formerly Medhbh or "mead." Thus she
gave a drink of herself. Lakshmi. A Celtic name of this fluid was
dergflaith, meaning either "red ale" or "red sovereignty."
In Celtic
Britain, to be stained with red meant to be chosen by the Goddess as
king. Celtic ruadh meant both "red" and "royal."
The same blood color implied apotheosis after death. The pagan
paradise or Fairyland was at the uterine center of the earth, site of
the magic Fountain of Life. An old manuscript in the British Museum
said the dying -and -resurrected Phoenix lives there forever. The
central Holy Mountain or mons veneris contains both male and female
symbols: the Tree of Life and the Fountain of Eternal Youth, the
latter obviously menstrual, as it was said to overflow once every
lunar month.
Medieval churchmen insisted that the communion wine drunk by witches
was menstrual blood, and they may have been right. The famous wizard
Thomas Rhymer joined a witch cult under the tutelage of the Fairy
Queen, who told him she had "a bottle of claret wine here in her
lap," and invited him to lay his head in her lap. Claret was the
traditional drink of the kings and also a synonym for blood; its name
literally meant 'enlightenment.' There was a saying, "the man in the
moon drinks claret," connected with the idea that the wine
represented lunar blood.
Medieval romance and the courtly-love movement, later related to the
witch cults, were strongly influenced by the Tantric tradition, in
which menstrual blood was indeed the wine of poets and sages. It is
still specified in the Left Hand Rite of Tantra that the priestess
impersonating the goddess must be menstruating, and after contact
with her a man may perform rites that will make him "a great poet, a
Lord of the World" who travels on elephant-back like a rajah.
In ancient societies both east and west, menstrual blood carried the
spirit of sovereign authority because it was the medium of
transmission of the life of clan or tribe. Among the Ashanti, girl
children are still more prized than boys because a girl is the
carrier of "blood" (mogya). The concept is also clearly defined in
India, where menstrual blood is known as the Kula flower or Kula
nectar, which has an intimate connection with the life of the family.
When a girl first menstruates she is said to have 'borne the flower'.
The corresponding English word flower has the significant literal
meaning of 'that which flows'.
The Bible also calls menstrual blood the flower (Leviticus 15:24),
precursor of the fruit of the womb (a child). As any flower
mysteriously contained its future fruit, so uterine blood was the
moon-flower supposed to contain the soul of future generations. This
was a central idea in the matrilineal concept of the clan.
The Chinese religion of Tao, "the Way", taught Tantric doctrines
later supplanted by patriarchial-ascetic Confucianism. Taoists said a
man could become immortal (or at least long-lived) by absorbing
menstrual blood, called red yin juice, from a woman's Mysterious
Gateway, otherwise known as the Grotto of the White Tiger, symbol of
life-giving female energy. Chinese sages called this red juice the
essence of Mother Earth, the yin principal that gives life to all
things. They claimed the Yellow Emperor became a god by absorbing the
yin juice of twelve hundred women.
A Chinese myth said the Moon-goddess Chang-O, who controlled
menstruation, was offended by male jealousy of her powers. She left
her husband, who quarreled with her because she had all the elixir of
immortality, and he had none, and was resentful. She turned her back
on him and went to live in the moon forever, in much the same way
Lilith left Adam to live at the 'Red Sea'. Chang-O forbade men to
attend Chinese moon festivals, which were afterward celebrated by
women only, at the full moon of the autumnal equinox.
The Hebrew word for blood, dam, means 'mother' or 'woman' in other
Indo-European languages (e,g. dam, damsel, madam, la dama, dame) and
also "the curse" (damn). The Sumaeriean Great Mother represented
maternal blood and bore names like Dam-kina, Damgalnunna. From her
belly flowed the four rivrres of Paradise, sometimes called rivers of
blood which is the 'life' of all flesh. Her firstborn child, the
savior, was Damu, a 'child of the blood." Damos or 'mother-blood"
was
the word for "the people' in matriarchal Mycenae. Another common
ancient symbol of the blood-river of life was the red carpet,
traditionally trod by scared kings, heros, and brides.
Taoist China considered red a scared color associated with women,
blood, sexual potency, and creative power. White was the color of
men, semen, negitive influences, passivity, and death. This was the
basic Tantric Idea of male and female essences: the male principal is
seen as 'passive' and 'quiescent'; the female principal as 'active'
and 'creative', the reverse of later patriarchal views.
Female blood color alone was often considered a potent magic
charm. The Maori rendered anything sacred by coloring it red, and
calling the red color menstrual blood. Andaman Islanders thought
blood-red paint a powerful medicine, and painted sick
people red all over in an effort to curethem. Hottentots addressed
their Mother Goddess as one "who has painted thy body red"; she was
divine because she never dropped or wasted menstrual blood. Some
African tribes believed that menstrual blood alone, kept in a covered
pot for none months, had the power to turn itself into a baby.
Easter eggs, classic womb-symbols of the Goddess Eostre, Were
traditionally colored red and laid on graves to strengthen the dead.
This habit, common in Greece and southern Russia, might be traced all
the way back to Paleolithic graves and funeral furnishing reddened
with ochre, for a closer resemblance to the Earth Mother's womb from
which the dead could be "born again." Ancient tombs everywhere have
shown the bones of the dead covered with red ochre. Sometimes
everything in the tomb, including the walls, had the red color. J.D.
Evans described a well tombon Malta filled reddened bones, which
struck fear into the
workmen who insisted the bones were covered with "fresh blood."
A born-again ceremony from Australia showed that the
Aborgines linked rebirth with the blood of the womb. Th chant
performed at Ankota, the "vulva of the earth," emphasized the redness
surrounding the worshipper: "A straight track is gaping open before
me. An underground hollow is gaping before me. A cavernous pathway
is gaping before me. An underground pathway is gaping before me.
Red I am like the heart of a flame of fire. Red, too, is the hollow
in which I am resting." Images like these help explain why some of
the oldest mages of the goddess, like Kurukulla in the east and her
counterpart Cybele in the west, were associated with both caverns and
redness.
Greek mystics were "born again" out of the river Styx,
otherwise known as Alpha, "the Beginning." This river wound seven
times through the earth's interior and emerged at a yonic shrine near
the city of Clitor (Greek kleitoris) sacred to the Great Mother. Styx
was the blood-stream from the earth's vagina; its waters were
credited with the same dread powers as menstrual blood. Olympian
gods swore their absolutely binding oaths by the waters of Styx, as
men on earth swore by the blood of their mothers. Symbolic death and
rebirth were linked with baptism in the waters of Styx, as in many
other sacred rivers the world over. Jesus himself was baptized in
Palestine's version of the Styx, the river Jordan. When a man bathed
seven times in this river, "his flesh came again like unto the flesh
of a little child" (2 Kings 5:14). In Greek tradition the journey to
the land of death meant crossing the Styx; in Judeo-Christian
tradition it was crossing the Jordan. The was the same "river of
blood: crossed by Thomas Rhymer on his way to Fairyland.
Tantric worship of menstrual blood penetrated the Greco-Roman world
before the Christian era and was well established in the Gnostic
period. This worship provided the agape "love-feast" or "spiritual
marriage" practiced by Gnostic Christians like the Ophites. Another
name for the agape was synesaktism, "the Way of Shaktism," meaning
Tantric yoni-worship.52 Synesaktism was declared a heresy before the
7th century A.D.53 Subsequently the "love-feast" disappeared, and
women were forbidden direct participation in Christian worship,
according to St. Paul's rule (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
Epiphanius described the agape practiced by Ophite Christians, while
making it clear that these heretical sexual activities filled him
with horror:
"Their women they share in common; and when anyone arrives who might
be alien to their doctrine, the men and women have a sign by which
they make themselves known to each other. When they extend their
hands, apparently in greeting, they tickle the other's palm in a
certain way and so discover whether the new arrival belongs to their
cult.
Husbands separate from their wives, and a man will say to his
own spouse, "Arise and celebrate the love feast (agape) with thy
brother." And the wretches mingle with each other
after they have
consorted together in a passionate debauch
The woman and the man take
the man's ejaculation into their hands, stand up
offering to the
Father, the Primal Being of All Nature, what is on their hands, with
the words, "We bring to Thee this oblation, which is the very Body of
Christ."
They consume it, take housel of their shame and say: "This
is the Body of Christ, the Paschal Sacrifice through which our bodies
suffer and are forced to confess to the sufferings of Christ." And
when the woman is in her period, they do likewise with her
menstruation. The unclean flow of blood, which they garner, they
take up in the same way and eat together. And that, they say, is
Christ's Blood. For when they read in Revelation, "I saw the tree of
life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month"
(Rev. 22:2), they interpret this as an allusion to the monthly
incidence of the female period."
The meaning of this Ophite sacrament to its practitioners is easily
recovered from Tantric parallels. Eating the living substances of
reproduction was considered more "spiritual" than eating the dead
body of the god, even in the transmuted form of bread and wine,
though the color symbolism was the same:
When the semen, made molten by the fire of great passion, falls into
the lotus of the "mother" and mixes with her red element, he
achieves "the conventional mandala of the thought of enlightenment."
The resultant mixture is tasted by the united "father-mother" [Yab-
Yum], and when it reaches the throat they can generate concretely a
special bliss
To be continued
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