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

The Great Consort
Mahāmudrā is a very intimate experience, and this is why it is called the Great Consort. You
unite your own mind with the primordial mind of ultimate reality, which knows you and loves
you intensely. When you are ready, you are embraced by Her, and the illusion that led you to
think you were ever separate from it simply falls away. It is an experience of the “one taste” of
all things as unchanging bliss, and the vast expanse of reality also possesses many flavors,
ranging from peacefulness and contentment to luscious, erotic love play. Mahāmudrā is the
happiest experience you will ever know, and it lasts forever.
The Erotic Nature of Mahāmudrā
Mahāmudrā is erotic. The Hevajra Tantra proclaims, “Erotic bliss is the Totality.” Many
religions regard God or Source as utterly lacking in erotic desire. Yet according to the Tantras,
primordial awareness is inherently erotic. As Kṛiṣṇācārya writes, “Erotic bliss is a characteristic
of the Innate.” As you attune yourself to the true reality, you realize its erotic nature. Mahāmudrā
is extremely juicy because, as the Great Bliss (Mahāsukha), you integrate and continuously hold
all the blissful states attained in sexual yoga of the Four Blisses. You are in a state of continuous
erotic union on all levels. The Great Bliss is the union of the worldly, erotic blisses and the erotic
bliss of nirvāṇa. Kṛiṣṇācārya notes, “Erotic bliss is the experience of the Great Bliss.”
In today’s world it is common to ponder “the untapped powers of the brain,” but this is not a
teaching found in the Tantras. They teach the untapped powers of the genitals. The Hevajra
Tantra makes clear that Mahāmudrā is not a lofty meditative state in which you leave your body,
but occurs directly in and arises from the genitals: “The bliss experienced by the sexual organ is
Mahāmudrā.” Mahāmudrā is attained through the genitals. It is not an abstract conceptual
change of perception, but a richly embodied erotic experience. The Siddha Prajñāśri praises the
genitals using the same words as some praise the brain today, as “the Palace of Wisdom.”
Advayavajra, in his Oral Instructions on the Four Yogas, explains that the Four Levels of
Mahāmudrā exist as a potency within the genitals. He finds, “The moment when each partner’s
potency of the Four Levels of Mahāmudrā is activated in the female and male sexual organs, the
Great Bliss is achieved.” Until this activation of the latent potential in the genitals occurs,
Mahāmudrā is unattainable. To activate and stabilize these potencies of nondual awareness in
the genitals is the great achievement of nondual yoga. Śabara affirms this most central principle
in The Sādhana of Secret Vajravilāsinī when he states that practitioners must possess genitals as
a requirement for practice – no genitals, no Mahāmudrā.
The method for attaining Mahāmudrā, then, is simple and clear. The Hevajra Tantra, in a very
short chapter distinctly titled The Means to Attain the Innate, teaches, “Making the consort for
Mahāmudrā naked, the wise yogi always serves her. The adamantine yogi repeatedly makes love.
Then the yogi attains numerous powers and becomes equal to all the buddhas.” That is the path
to inner awakening.
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