Last Words
The moment people hear the name Tantra, what is the first thing that comes to their mind? Black magic, hypnosis, ghosts and spirits, cremation ground rituals, worship of pishachini and yakshini. This is the image that has been planted in society. Why? So that people remain afraid of Tantra. So that they never reach its real meaning. Hypocrites, frauds, and contractors of blind faith have presented Tantra in such a dirty and terrifying form that an ordinary person trembles just hearing its name. But the truth is that Tantra has nothing to do with all this. Tantra does not mean black magic. Tantra means the science of consciousness.
Those who consider Tantra a method to control spirits or to bind someone through hypnosis are not only foolish, they are also guilty of insulting Tantra. Tantra does not turn a person into a beggar who sits before God crying, “O God, give me this, give me that.” Tantra is not for such weak people. Tantra demands a warrior. A warrior who can fight his own fears, conquer his desires, and expand his consciousness. Tantra turns a person into a lion. And do not forget that sacrifice is always of the goat, never of the lion. A practitioner of Tantra is not one who bargains fearfully before deities. A practitioner of Tantra is one who has the courage to descend into the darkest abyss within himself, where no one else even dares to go. Tantra is that which makes a person confront his own illusions, his own lusts, his own darkness. And when a person wins that inner war, he no longer remains ordinary, he becomes extraordinary.
The path of Tantra is the path of experience, not belief. All other religions, sects, and hypocritical gurus trap you in a net of faith. They say, “Believe. Accept blindly.” But Tantra says, “Experience.” Because falsehood cannot survive in direct experience. That is why Tantra has always been a threat to society. The contractors of religion defamed it because they knew that if a person understood Tantra, he would break free from their web. And a free human being is the most dangerous, because he remains no one’s slave.
Today, human beings have turned religion into business. In temples, donations and ritual offerings are made as part of deals. Hypocrites dressed as saints frighten people, stage dramas of curses and blessings, and enslave crowds. But Tantra rejects this entire drama. Tantra says do not search for truth in any scripture, any idol, any rule, or any contractor. Truth is within you, and the method to awaken it is Tantra. The cremation ground has been declared the center of Tantra so that people become even more afraid. But the reality is that there is no greater teacher than the cremation ground, because it teaches that this body is temporary. Yet fake gurus twisted the meaning of cremation ground practice. They turned it into a spectacle of fear and superstition. True Tantra practice is neither to frighten anyone nor to control anyone. It is to end the fear of death within the practitioner himself. And the one who becomes free from the fear of death has no fear left at all.
Tantra gives you a power that books cannot give, temple bells cannot give, and sermons of gurus cannot give. Because Tantra makes you face truth directly. There is no curtain in it, no acting. It is naked, raw, dangerous. But the one who endures it finds that nothing remains impossible. Society abused Tantra because society wants timid people. People who do not question, who silently follow rules, who lose themselves in the crowd. But Tantra does not want such a person. Tantra gives birth to the one who questions, who rebels, who breaks rules, and lives truth through direct experience. That is why a Tantra practitioner stands apart from the crowd. He may be alone, but he is powerful. He may be silent, but even his silent presence creates tremors.
Tantra is not a frightening game, nor is it a tool of lust. It is the science of liberating the soul. Only the one who has the courage to become a lion can understand it. The rest will continue to live in fear and illusion. Remember, only the one who has the courage to burn walks through the fire of Tantra. The rest will keep worshipping the ashes as their God.
Shivansh Jamdagni
