Tag: tantra

  • Psychotherapy harmful to spiritual development (108)

    Psychotherapy harmful to spiritual development (108)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next (1) Psychotherapy is usually associated with a somewhat mysterious, well-being-promoting effect of the environment (including other people and therapists), referring to what is understood as psychological support or help in solving problems. That is why we talk about the therapeutic influence of listening to appropriate music, hiking in the mountains,…

  • Śaivism as the first monotheistic mystery cult (107)

    Śaivism as the first monotheistic mystery cult (107)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next (1) Śaivism, in the original Śaiva, more precisely the Śaiva Sampradaya, is the oldest, most ancient spiritual, mystery and religious tradition of India, Kashmir and Tibet. Śaivism is strongly associated with the practices of tantric yoga or, as some prefer, yoga, tantra, and the so-called kundalini yoga. Śaivic tantra is…

  • Yoga – gymnastics or philosophy? Why did the West fall in love with yoga and asanas? (102)

    Yoga – gymnastics or philosophy? Why did the West fall in love with yoga and asanas? (102)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next If, in a street poll, we ask passersby whether they know what yoga is, the majority will confirm. Some will say it is a form of gymnastics, like stretching and Pilates; others will associate yoga with Hinduism and Buddhism, and still others will describe it as personal development. The latter…

  • Master’s Notes on Spiritual Practice (98)

    Master’s Notes on Spiritual Practice (98)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next The most basic issue for prayers, meditation and all exercises is to assume and settle into the correct body position, often down to the smallest detail. A slightly curved back or head tilted too far back, facial tension, a slump in the torso (slouching) at the diaphragm, and poorly positioned…

  • Toxic Ideas of Pseudo-Religions (88)

    Toxic Ideas of Pseudo-Religions (88)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next As a specialist in the field of psychology of religion and mental therapy of people indoctrinated by toxic and destructive sects widely known in the world, I will say a few words about a few toxic ideas that distort reason and destroy the spiritual life of an individual, leading him…

  • Marana Tantra (86)

    Marana Tantra (86)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next TANTRA is a very grateful and sought-after topic in the field of spiritual and mystical knowledge, and many researchers of the Oriental Culture look in it for teachings and wisdom that are otherwise magical and esoteric, which is actually right. TANTRA has many meanings and references, and its origin is…

  • Some Aspects of Spirituality (66)

    Some Aspects of Spirituality (66)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next 1. We will discuss a very deep and comprehensive topic: spirituality, i.e. climbing upwards on the steps of enlightenment. We will assume the essential esoteric truth about generally five degrees of enlightenment or spirituality that human beings can achieve in their human bodies. The symbol of a five–pointed star, a…

  • SriVidya – Tantra Sadhana

    SriVidya – Tantra Sadhana

    Śri Vidya Tantra shortly Śrī Vidyā – also spelled “Shri” or “Shree” Vidyaa. विद्या (IAST: vidyā; and to see Sanskrit letters install Devanagari.ttf or Lohit.ttf script on Your computer!) is “knowledge, learning, lore, science”, is a Hindu Tantric religious system devoted to the Goddess as Lalitā Tripurasundarī (“Beautiful Goddess of the Three Cities”), Bhuvaneśvari etc.…

  • SHIVA – The Founder and Owner of all Yoga and Tantra

    SHIVA – The Founder and Owner of all Yoga and Tantra

    Shiva (śiva, ziva) aka Mahadeva, Yogeshvara, Bholenath or Nataraja; in Sanskrit: शिव Śiva, meaning “auspicious one” is a major Vedic, Himalayan and Hindu deity, and is the destroyer of evil or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that…

  • Diksha, Guru, Parampara, Yoga and Tantra

    Diksha, Guru, Parampara, Yoga and Tantra

    Diksha, dIkSA/n – in Sanskrit: दीक्षा in Devanagari, dīkṣā, dIkSA; Tamil: தீட்சை – also spelled deeksha or deeksa in common usage, translated as an “initiation” or “preparation or consecration for a religious ceremony”, is giving of a mantra or an initiation by the Guruh in Indian Yoga, Tantra and religions such as Vedism, Brahminism, Hinduism,…

  • Himalayan Spiritual Community (101)

    Himalayan Spiritual Community (101)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next We are an Ancient Spiritual Community for spreading all secrets of Laya Yoga based on Chakras, and Life Science called Tantra, and for spreading most famous Ayurveda teachings for health and healing! The most known word SANGHA means Brotherhood and Sisterhood or may be much better as KINSHIP! We all are brothers…

  • Auxilliary Methods of Laya Marga

    Auxilliary Methods of Laya Marga

    Laya Path also conveys plenty of auxilliary teachings and practices, if they turn out to be necessary at a certain stage of the spiritual path followed by its male as well as female disciples. It is worth mentioning Mahadevi Yoga, the path of the Great Goddess-Mother, familiar in many traditions and religions, also in Christianity, where…

  • Teachings of Nagaraja Babaji (60)

    Teachings of Nagaraja Babaji (60)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next The Great Spiritual Master, Śrī Śivbāba Nagaraja, commonly called simply Bābaji, was born at the end of November 203 according to Christian Era in Tamil Nadu. One of his spiritual Masters was the immortal sage, rishi and yoga master Śri Agasthya. At the age of 16, Babaji achieved immortality of…

  • Why Ego Doesn’t Like Initiation? (51)

    Why Ego Doesn’t Like Initiation? (51)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next Seeing how many people hear the words initiation, vow, obligation and become terrified or discouraged towards spiritual schools or practices, today I will deal with this question posed as the title of this Esoteric Bulletin. Personally, I have met many people who tremble and are afraid when they hear the…

  • Hydrotherapy and Urine Therapy (50)

    Hydrotherapy and Urine Therapy (50)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next Dealing with spiritual culture of the East, especially with yoga, Sufism, Esoteric Christianity and also ayurveda (natural Indian medicine), I have mixed feelings concerning some of the published nonsense on the supposedly yogic urine therapy. Being a yogin and a yoga teacher myself  I must say that this urine therapy…

  • Learning About Chakras (43)

    Learning About Chakras (43)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next With great pleasure I share this lesson dedicated to the centres of fiery consciousness to all those interested in the topic of chakras (pronounce as ćakra, soft ‘chi’). I would like to mention that the knowledge contained in this work belongs to the system of vaidika laya yoga and is…

  • Tantrayana – The Vehicle of Refinement (36)

    Tantrayana – The Vehicle of Refinement (36)

    Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next Today we will consider what the tantric vehicle of teachings is in the lineage called the Light of Himavanti. The word ‘TANTRA’ in a first approximation means ‘getting rid of primitiveness’. Tantric teachings are attributed to the female line of teaching in the yoga tradition, and therefore have their source…

  • KAMASUTRA – Ancient Love Handbook – Spiritual Art of Sexual Life for Humanity

    KAMASUTRA – Ancient Love Handbook – Spiritual Art of Sexual Life for Humanity

    Love is probably the most important in human lifes. Angel or deity of love and sex is Kama Deva. Spiritual practice with Kama Deva help for love. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, might be called a treatise on men and women, their mutual relationship, and connection with each other.  It is a work that should be studied by…

  • TANTRA – Spiritual Mysticism of the East

    TANTRA – Spiritual Mysticism of the East

    TANTRA – SPIRITUAL MYSTICISM AND ESOTERICISM OF THE EAST Tantra was first systematized by Lord Shiva, also called Sadashiva, who was an enlightened yogi living in the Himalayas more than 7000 years ago. Tantra had its origin in India and South Asia. Tantra in its Káshmiirii and Gaud’iiya Schools did exist before Shiva, but in…

  • Spiritual and Yoga Glossary

    Spiritual and Yoga Glossary

    ESOTERIC GLOSSARY  Adept – A Master, or human being who, having traversed the path of evolution and entered upon the final stage of the path, the Path of Initiation, has taken five of the Initiations, and has therefore passed into the Fifth, or Spiritual kingdom, having but two more Initiations to take.  Adi – The…