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sary goods up to Devi, Ram smiled, a little uncomfortably,as if he'd been saving a big surprise for me."Each week, for more than a year, I've been bringingDevi what she needs. I sit in her hut, we share a meal, wetalk, she tells me things, and me, I come back down andserve tea to those who want it and say nothing.""She's a sorceress who feeds on dead bodies and pushesmen off the top of the cliff!" I said, laughing."That's right!" exclaimed Ram with an angelic smile."She's terrifying, with her bloodshot eyes!""And the man found dead in the river?""There has never been any dead man in the river. I thinkit is you. Haven't you seen your body floating down it?"Ram went with me as far as the bus stop, and with arespectful smile I said my goodbyes to this budding tantrikawho had fooled me so well.169
•EPILOGUEWhen I returned to Paris, the ecstatic moments lived withDevi left a lingering impression for a few months, whichwas then replaced by a feeling of loss. I understood whyDevi said that a mystical experience had to find its fulfillmentin one's return to society. Ordinary life is simultaneouslya marvelous master and a constant barometer ofspiritual realization. The occasions for feeding one's egoare incessant, the frictions of personality continue, the frustrationsand desires are no less. And it's only when onebegins to function with a certain interior harmony in relationto this frenzy that the fruit of the teaching reachesmaturity. I tried to remember Devi's advice: not to losemyself in a frenetic quest or internal tension. I tried regularlyto be fully conscious of the thirty-six tattvas. I succeededin stealing from life a few days of joy and profoundpeace interspersed with passions of all sorts, which weresometimes useful for the great fire that the tantrika tends170
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TANTRICQUESTAn Encounter withAbsolu
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For Kalou Rinpoche and Devi,my mast
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INTRODUCTIONShivaic Tantrism of Kas
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cal and divine creations, all sacre
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a rock wall before transmitting the
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my passion for art in general and p
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seem to have the soul of an ascetic
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2From those first weeks in the Hima
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protective cords around my neck fro
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which the meditator tapped into cer
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or nestled in the pinnacle of the S
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Taoist master, alerted by Kalou Rin
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that Puritanism and other invading
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it, the more invisible it seems. Ma
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place where Shiva had reappeared to
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wrapped in my blanket, before going
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following the course of the turquoi
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4I slept very little that night, ha
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"No. I want to stay here, to see th
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everything was still where I had le
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notes and books. She flipped throug
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5When I went back up to the hermita
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greeted me in the Indian style. Whe
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ness is the place of ritual union.
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an end to them without always shift
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notions and beliefs you've allowed
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into the forest to find the necessa
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"Tell me about your first experienc
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Placing heaven outside self allows
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me. I took it, and as I was going t
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lack circles were forming. I felt w
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to reach my skin. Devi opened her e
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"When the whole suit of armor gives
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into my ears. I came up a second ti
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except the end of Devi's ring finge
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Devi ate slowly. Each of her moveme
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for three days and three nights wil
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8As Devi moved through the forest s
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another consciousness more joyous a
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you what you have absorbed of the w
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well protected that others no longe
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It gives back a vitality, a color,
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pride. When I say that intelligence
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9I'd been living in my hut for abou
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That's a grave obstacle to future r
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asked her all sorts of questions, w
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eing hit by a lot of stones, he'd c
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seems that the evening is still you
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The next day, there was a fundament
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stopped myself as soon as I realize
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extended to the trees, the stones,
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your whole body is loose, center on
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of his sincere affection and of his
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longer operating. I discovered, sim
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continuation - continuation of the
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no ritual to induce the meditative
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with you. When you exhale, the whol
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"That conflicted with my determinat
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"And when one leaves meditation, ho
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thing with a man obsessed with sex
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opportunity for impulsive debaucher
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