TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

except the end of Devi's ring finger was touching my hand.She started to laugh."Your thinking mind touched the fire and you burnedyourself. I wanted this day to be an experience of total contactwith the tattvas for both the body and the consciousness.There is only one way to receive the transmission.When I tell you to do something, do it immediately, withoutthe least wavering of thought. That's it. Learn. Openyour heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it intoa calculated gesture stripped of all its grace, all its efficiency.To come back to an action that went wrong makesit worse. That's only to sink deeper into the mental. Remorseparalyzes, hesitation eliminates beauty from action,thought shrinks from the world."Devi seized my hand and, with lightening speed, flattenedit against the coals. I let out a cry and instantly withdrewit. There wasn't a single mark on it or any sensationof burning. The coals, nevertheless, had been crushed undermy palm. Devi looked at me with a sort of serene andmysterious half-smile that gave her face a full, radiantexpression."Now you have touched the tattva of fire."I remained silent, looking at my hand as if I expected tosee blisters appear. Small stones landed in the pot. I dranksome tea, then thought about this feeling of holding back,of resistance, that I had had during meditation. I spoke toher about it."Our strongest resistance is the resistance to ecstasy becausewe sense that to succumb to it we must abandon allcertainty, abandon what we have put so many years into constructing.We must abandon our philosophy of life. Our beliefs,65