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Tantric Lovers

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TANTRA IS THE SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMING ORDINARY LOVERS INTO SOULMATES

In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning – you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.

"Hence, Tantra was created. Tantra is a scientific approach. Tantra is alchemy; it can transform your centers, it can transform the other's centers, it can create a rhythm and harmony between you and your beloved. That is the beauty of Tantra. It is like bringing electricity into your house. Then you can turn it on and off whenever you want. And you can have a thousand and one uses of it; it can cool your room, it can heat your room. Then it is a miracle. These seven centers in you are nothing but centers of body electricity. So, when I am talking about lightning, don't think of it only as a symbol – I mean it literally.

In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively… If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.

These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.

“Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.” --Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1, Talk #8

art: Chenar @IamLine5

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I spend so much time lost in my mind that I end up forgetting to live.

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I’m delighted I’m still alive and still have time to witness the Arctic night or the mimic octopus, and to marvel at least once more at how light comes from within the heart of your hair’s woven nest. At the mirror, you’re as serious as a radio tower, receiving, as alone as a buoy braving the waves to bring a ship in safely, but your hair is a screaming wet spiderweb of light that reminds me that the clouds will never be stopped, that colour can’t be destroyed, that I might still see the earth from above, and that all of life is only once, but it glows.

C.J. Evans, Inquiry into beckoning

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