tantra is a Sanskrit word with various straightforward meanings, including “theory,” “doctrine,” or simply “book.”

Therefore, this book, though it focuses on Śaiva (= Śiva-Śakti) Tantra, can indeed function as an adequate orientation to Tantra in general, i.e., to the worldview and practices shared by the various Tantrik religions.

You may wonder what the phrase “classical Tantra” refers to. It distinguishes our subject matter from the later Hindu Tantra and haṭha-yoga traditions, and also from modern Western neo-Tantra. The classical Tantra treated in this volume is associated with a specific religious tradition, the religion of Śiva-Śakti, also known as Shaivism, the

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

It’s called the parable of the Dream Machine.

This state of awareness in which you are completely in tune with reality, immersed in your divine nature, is called samāveśa.

section.) The Krama school of NŚT teaches that we can observe the divine acts of sṛṣṭi, sthiti, and saṃhāra in the arising and falling away of each and every cognition

Tantrasāra

The purpose of walking the spiritual path, from the nondual Tantrik perspective, is simply to undermine your misidentification and directly reveal within the immediacy of your awareness the fact that the divine Powers of Consciousness, Bliss, Willing, Knowing, and Acting comprise the totality of your individual experience as well—thereby triggering