THE HISTORY Of TANTRA YOGA AND ITS UNIQUENESS
By Pius Ephenus
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the yoga methods practiced in the West, Tantra yoga has the spirit of the ancient teachings. In its purest formula, Tantra yoga developed as part of the ancient Indian culture and it aimed at assisting people achieve a way of non-dual life passed along a sacred path. The present-day sexual idea of Tantra yoga is in reality a adulteration of the revered spirit of the practice and it is the direct outcome of the misreading of some Indian texts by people who did not know how to interpret them. The complexity results from the wealth of metaphors used in Tantra yoga teachings especially since they described experiences that had to be felt personally as consciousness forms.
Tantra yoga insists on the heart focus and the perception of the world through the understanding of love and harmony that are also widespread concepts to taoist Chinese beliefs and to the biblical texts. Numerous divisions can be identified in Tantra yoga too, and this is apparent in the Tibetan Tantra yoga school and its teaching. For the Tibetans, the practice of Tantra yoga grew only in monasteries most of the time and it got to be explained on paper in very much the way it was expressed in speech.
Tantra yoga advocates that the superior path to take is that which combines the love-heart, the will-hand and the wisdom-head in one agreeable whole. It all starts with love and the practice of Tantra yoga stresses the significance of the becoming procedure instead than the attainment of the goal. The sexual connotations added to Tantra yoga are a form of corruption of the pure practice thus, instead of the balancing of the yin and yang within each of us, Tantra yoga is believed to seek the union with another person.
Guidance in the secrets of Tantra yoga must be very cautiously chosen since lots of so-called yoga masters are far from being accomplished in the practice. According to custom, only one who has gone a long way on the path to spiritual awakening can reveal the secrets and teach a trainee. In terms of overall goal, like many other yoga variants, Tantra aims at the spiritual awakening of any being and the satisfaction that comes from enjoying liberation at all levels of existence.
About the
author:
Victor writes about free yoga exercises in his blog. For more informative yoga articles go over to http://www.yogaonlineblogger.com
For more yoga
articles, click here -
Yoga Articles
I wish you all the best on your yoga adventure!
To your health,
Thomas T :)
|