Tantrism And Polarity
In Tantra one of the fundamental principles is the principle of polarity. The universe has a masculine principle called Shiva and a feminine principle called Shakti.
The masculine represents the transcendent aspects of the universe: The consciousness, the spirit, the world of ideas, while the feminine represents the imminent aspect of the universe: The material, the body, nature, our moods, life itself.
Shiva without Shakti is but a corpse, concepts with no "body", no "life". Shakti without Shiva is chaos and destruction. It is the universe with no master plan and no essence to keep it together.
Shiva and Shakti dance together in a complex and beautiful dance which creates the universe, keeps it together and destroys it.
Their dance takes place on all levels of existence. On the cosmic level this can be seen by galaxies (Shakti) revolving around black holes (Shiva), singularities in space/time.
Their dance is also visible in the couple relationship where the man has more of Shiva in him and the woman has more of Shakti in her. Even within ourselves this dance takes place between our consciousness and our physical bodies.
Shiva is consciousness and Shakti is energy. Shiva is the mirror in which Shakti can see herself.
The Law Of Resonance
Resonance is a fundamental law of the universe. The universe is pulsating energy (Shakti) covering an infinite scope of vibration.
Energy with one frequency will be attracted to other energies of the same frequency (the law of attraction).
A system which pulsates with a specific frequency can transfer data from another system vibrating with the same frequency.
Just to make an example: If you are a happy person you will transfer data from all the other people in the world who have transmitted happiness energies. All energies which have been emitted exist out there in the universe and make up a network of the "happy energies". This is a network you automatically join and start transferring from when you are happy!
A specific resonance of happiness can be transferred through different media. Music can give you that specific state of happiness, or a certain colour could do the same thing.
We should therefor be very careful with which resonances we allow into our being. Listening to heavy metal for instance will put you in resonance with all the people that ever listened to heavy metal and as experiments with plants show, it is not an energy which is very conducive to life.
Many people who delve into negative energies claim that it is a part of life, and if you do not indulge in them you will not know how to handle them. Unless you have a high state of consciousness which can witness these energies from a very detached position you do yourself no good by immersing yourself in dark energy.
For the rest of us we should rather concentrate on what is good and noble and download those energies into our being!
The Tantric World
Tantrics actively study Shakti in her myriad ways to thereby understand the mind of Shiva. In these studies of Shakti the universe has been categorized into Gods and Goddesses, each representing a unique range of frequencies/aspects.
For example the energy of compassion has a specific frequency of vibration. In the west we would call it compassion and we do not see the need to have it represented by a Goddess.
But deifying an energy has an important function: It enables us to identify easier with the energy as it gains a human face. It is easier to digest and to take in.
Through the process of identification we gain a kind of empathy with the object and start to experience the world through "the eyes of the object".
A bija mantra is a sound which has the core vibration of the range of frequencies represented by a certain God or Goddess.
A mantra is a sound which can be repeated internally by the meditator in his worship of the Goddess and is the closest physical representation we have to the bija of the Goddess.
The word Tantra in fact means "Network" as the universe consists of a huge range of energies interconnected to each other. Tantra offers us the opportunity of going into resonance processes with all these energies through its pantheon of Gods and Goddesses and their associated Mantras.
These tools enable us to get into contact with any aspect of creation.
Tantric music
Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.
A composer who makes a piece of music under the influence of a certain resonance will convey this resonance to the listener in a very powerful and direct way.
It is in the artists interest to choose which energy he wants his audience to feel, because it enables him to consciously "soak" himself in that energy while creating his artwork and to transmit it to his audience through resonance.
An inspired artist is like a priest. He joins into a deep state of communion/resonance with the bija of a specific uplifted energies and makes art which resonates with those energies. These fine energies will then be felt by whoever appreciates his art.
In Tantra one of the fundamental principles is the principle of polarity. The universe has a masculine principle called Shiva and a feminine principle called Shakti.
The masculine represents the transcendent aspects of the universe: The consciousness, the spirit, the world of ideas, while the feminine represents the imminent aspect of the universe: The material, the body, nature, our moods, life itself.
Shiva without Shakti is but a corpse, concepts with no "body", no "life". Shakti without Shiva is chaos and destruction. It is the universe with no master plan and no essence to keep it together.
Shiva and Shakti dance together in a complex and beautiful dance which creates the universe, keeps it together and destroys it.
Their dance takes place on all levels of existence. On the cosmic level this can be seen by galaxies (Shakti) revolving around black holes (Shiva), singularities in space/time.
Their dance is also visible in the couple relationship where the man has more of Shiva in him and the woman has more of Shakti in her. Even within ourselves this dance takes place between our consciousness and our physical bodies.
Shiva is consciousness and Shakti is energy. Shiva is the mirror in which Shakti can see herself.
The Law Of Resonance
Resonance is a fundamental law of the universe. The universe is pulsating energy (Shakti) covering an infinite scope of vibration.
Energy with one frequency will be attracted to other energies of the same frequency (the law of attraction).
A system which pulsates with a specific frequency can transfer data from another system vibrating with the same frequency.
Just to make an example: If you are a happy person you will transfer data from all the other people in the world who have transmitted happiness energies. All energies which have been emitted exist out there in the universe and make up a network of the "happy energies". This is a network you automatically join and start transferring from when you are happy!
A specific resonance of happiness can be transferred through different media. Music can give you that specific state of happiness, or a certain colour could do the same thing.
We should therefor be very careful with which resonances we allow into our being. Listening to heavy metal for instance will put you in resonance with all the people that ever listened to heavy metal and as experiments with plants show, it is not an energy which is very conducive to life.
Many people who delve into negative energies claim that it is a part of life, and if you do not indulge in them you will not know how to handle them. Unless you have a high state of consciousness which can witness these energies from a very detached position you do yourself no good by immersing yourself in dark energy.
For the rest of us we should rather concentrate on what is good and noble and download those energies into our being!
The Tantric World
Tantrics actively study Shakti in her myriad ways to thereby understand the mind of Shiva. In these studies of Shakti the universe has been categorized into Gods and Goddesses, each representing a unique range of frequencies/aspects.
For example the energy of compassion has a specific frequency of vibration. In the west we would call it compassion and we do not see the need to have it represented by a Goddess.
But deifying an energy has an important function: It enables us to identify easier with the energy as it gains a human face. It is easier to digest and to take in.
Through the process of identification we gain a kind of empathy with the object and start to experience the world through "the eyes of the object".
A bija mantra is a sound which has the core vibration of the range of frequencies represented by a certain God or Goddess.
A mantra is a sound which can be repeated internally by the meditator in his worship of the Goddess and is the closest physical representation we have to the bija of the Goddess.
The word Tantra in fact means "Network" as the universe consists of a huge range of energies interconnected to each other. Tantra offers us the opportunity of going into resonance processes with all these energies through its pantheon of Gods and Goddesses and their associated Mantras.
These tools enable us to get into contact with any aspect of creation.
Tantric music
Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.
A composer who makes a piece of music under the influence of a certain resonance will convey this resonance to the listener in a very powerful and direct way.
It is in the artists interest to choose which energy he wants his audience to feel, because it enables him to consciously "soak" himself in that energy while creating his artwork and to transmit it to his audience through resonance.
An inspired artist is like a priest. He joins into a deep state of communion/resonance with the bija of a specific uplifted energies and makes art which resonates with those energies. These fine energies will then be felt by whoever appreciates his art.
About the Author:
Hans Havasi is a musician and computer scientist who leads a yoga and tantra retreat centre in the north of Copenhagen. Together with his wife Mariah they form the meditation music group Ibis which makes Tantric music for Goddesses.
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