TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

for three days and three nights will you be able to say it. Tochant a mantra before having heard it is to arrive at deathbefore being born."We finished our breakfast. I felt myself entering a newuniverse - a universe of extreme richness. I tried to be fullyattentive to all that Devi said to me. At the same time asshe captivated me, I was momentarily taken by a kind offear. What would this upheaval lead me to? How was Igoing to emerge from this total calling into question of myfrenetic way of apprehending life? What did that enigmaticsmile hide, and what would I suffer for experiencing therevolt that Devi had predicted? Many times I had the desireto take to my heels, go back down to Delhi, taste theeasy pleasures, leave India for the less mystical territoriesof Southeast Asia. When these impulses came over me,nearly as quickly I realized that an opportunity like this -to go all the way to the end of myself - might never presentitself again, and I would spend the rest of my life regrettingit. This way of touching the world is marvelous, but italso contains something terrifying for a Westerner: the harrowingsense, at the beginning, of being dissolved into theobjects of perception. We have reinforced the ego in such away that it's painful to begin to feel how quickly it evaporateswhen we really touch the world."Does one practice these relationships with the tattvaslike a sort of meditation by choosing one or another? Isthat fundamental in Tantrism?""What's fundamental isn't to concentrate on this or thattattva as a particular form of meditation, but rather to realizethat permanent contact with the thirty-six tattvas infull consciousness is the Tantric practice. Life isn't divided69