Great-Bliss-Tantric-Sex-and-the-Path-to-Inner-Awakening

and Kubera. He presides over the Southern Direction, and his pure land is Glorious (Śrī). This
family brings the power of abundance.
Essence
The Innate, as ultimate reality or Essence (Tattva), is real, pure, and erotic.
Essence is Real
Essence is real. The Innate is the infinite potential power of ultimate reality. Ultimate reality or
Essence (Tattva) is the eternal and instructible Clear Light (Prabhāsvara) of primordial wisdom.
The Yoginī Tantras teach that ultimate reality is a single primordial awareness. The Hevajra
Tantra declares, “The Great Consciousness is in fact One.” This conscious oneness is comprised
of an infinite field of bindus, indestructible points of light, the essence of wisdom and love that
are primordially female and male. The Hevajra Tantra regards ultimate reality as an active,
creative power of immense and awesome brilliance: “Wisdom is called Mother because She
gives birth to the universe.” It adds that ultimate reality is not a remote creator, but the very
aliveness found in all things, “It is the great life breath and the world pervader.”
Essence is Pure
Essence is pure. Among the infinite good and pure qualities of Essence are: bliss, clarity of
awareness, nonthought, indestructibility, light, vital essence, and creative power.
Essence is Erotic
Essence is erotic. The red and white bindus are compact points of infinite erotic power, the
female and male essences that unite to create the worlds, saturating all things with erotic energy.
Kṛiṣṇācārya praises eros as the nature of ultimate reality - “This is a characteristic of the Innate.”
Great Bliss
The Innate is the Great Bliss (Mahāsukha), the union of ultimate bliss and worldly bliss. It is the
true nature of the Totality. It is called “Great Bliss” because it is greater than any worldly bliss
you could ever know, and greater even than the bliss of nirvāṇa because it includes both the bliss
of nirvāṇa and worldly bliss. Great Bliss is their final unity.
The Hevajra Tantra teaches, “The Great Bliss is in essence One.” It is the unchanging, unitary
bliss of ultimate reality. But is also simultaneously the worldly bliss of changing appearances,
and the Hevajra Tantra describes this world as simultaneously pervaded by bliss. Kṛiṣṇācārya
similarly adds, “This pure Innate Great Bliss pervades all phenomenal things, for it is the
95