TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

deep meaning goes unrecognized, and one stops being inconstant loving rapport with reality."We suffer from our absence from the world. The deepconsciousness becomes weighted down with each experience,and the universe becomes sad and gray. Lonelinessestablishes itself, and the prospect of death becomes so terrifyingthat we spend our time escaping from ourselves intoall sorts of artificial and limited pleasures. When we dressourselves in ashes, we dress ourselves in the dust of thedead, and by penetrating our hearts, we offer them thefreedom of finally recognizing the divine."The tantrika refuses limited pleasure. He lets his consciousnessgo back to the source. He recognizes the maleand the female in himself. He opens himself to the worldand then grasps that time and space, desire, lack of fulfillment,and limited creativity are bogeymen meant for terrifiedbeings. If beings weren't terrified, there would be nogradual approaches to spirituality. If beings weren't terrified,there would be no tests to submit to. If beings weren'tterrified, there would be no gods outside of the Self, nopaths leading to them, no illusory progress, no metaphysics,no conceptualization of the divine."Shivaism offers unconditional freedom to the people ofthe Kali Yuga, or dark age. Few are capable of grasping it.It burns like a fierce fire, but it takes only a very smallopening in the consciousness for the divine to rush in. Thedivine is like a guest one makes sleep outside. That's not itsnatural place. It waits patiently to enter until we really wantto open a door or shutter part way. That's why we oftenuse the expression 'coming back to its own home, or 'returning'to the Self. I was pushing your hand into the fire158