TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

into my ears. I came up a second time and waited for Devi.Her face emerged. She opened her eyes, and I saw inthem the playfulness of a young girl. She breathed in verydeeply, slowly, then breathed out. Her hair was so black itlooked almost blue."The third tattva is air, which enters my lungs, then nourishesmy blood and circulates throughout my entire body.The air is real. Only your superficial contact with the air isnot real."Devi got out of the water and sat down on a big roundrock, face to the sun. Since she was naked, I chose anotherrock, some distance away, but she motioned for me to takethe spot in front of her. As I sat down she said to me:"Tantrism is one long face-to-face. Nakedness is the nakednessof the conscious in which nothing is fixed. Everythingflows there like a river. The Shaktis are nude becausenot a single concept can find where to attach itself in theirconsciousness any longer. Thought itself wouldn't know howto stay put there. The phallus of Shiva is erect because it israised to full consciousness, and in full consciousness itpenetrates the universe. The vulva of Shakti is open becausein full consciousness she lets the entire universe penetrateher. Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They areone. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shaktiisn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration thesupreme consciousness opens. If, in whatever circumstances,the sight of nudity awakens this revival of consciousness,then all bodies become a manifestation of thedivine. Why distance yourself from the divine?"Naked, on this rock, I am conscious of the tattva that isether. It is empty space where everything manifests itself.63