TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

Placing heaven outside self allows suffering to become aninstitution maintained by society's dream at such a highlevel that we can no longer escape from it. Whatever ourfortune starting out in life, a day comes when we decide tolimit our consciousness, to dry it up."As for the mystical crises of adolescence, the great revoltsthat make us doubt the path indicated by others, oneday we step back and decide to pay our imaginary debt tosociety. We accept the death of our true selves. And thegreat fraud is that this death troubles no one. To the contrary,it is watched for, welcomed, and rewarded. As soonas the price of this spiritual death is accepted, it becomesextremely hard to follow another route. That can happenonly at the cost of immense effort and very great courage.Those who have accepted their own deaths have only onepossibility: to become followers of a religion or group thatplaces the divine outside the self. Thus, everything is subsumedby society's order and interests, aligned to those ofthe churches and sects, which operate from the same commonbase: the death of divine consciousness. The drivingforces are guilt, fear, obedience. The results are rigidity,distance from sensory objects, obsession, Puritanism, violence,moral codes, exclusion. In India, America, China,the Mideast, Europe - that is the mode of operation we seeat work throughout."To become a tantrika is only to realize the fundamentallypure and heavenly nature of consciousness andto let it take over your life. When that happens, no socialgame, no drug, no limited ideal can become inscribedin the consciousness, but above all, no activity in theworld is capable of taking away this radiance. The53