Wallis speaks to this in his book, but public perception of tantra is deeply misinformed. This book, while still fairly surface level, provides a wealth of experiential and academic information to help provide a more accurate introduction to Nondual Śaiva Tantra than is currently available anywhere else to my knowledge. After the philosophy section, the author gives a detailed, but generalized, accounting of the history of Saiva Tantra. A lot of his work is based off of Alexis Sanderson, who is the pre-eminent scholar of Saiva Tantra. Not only do we learn the genesis and development of the classical Tantra, but we also learn that the Tantra subsumed many elements of Patanjali’s Yoga to produce Hatha Yoga, which he clearly shows has its roots in the Tantra. It is from Hatha Yoga that we obtained the Modern Postural Yoga. So not only do we get to learn about this history of classical Tantra, but we also learn about the Tantric roots of modern day yoga practice. The history is both relevant and fascinating. I found this book deeply satisfying on a personal level, because I have explored quite a bit of spiritual/metaphysical territory, and NŚT mirrors my own personal conclusions almost exactly. What a strange relief to be reminded I'm not alone in my view of the world, and so eloquently.

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That pure unlimited Consciousness - transcending all principles of reality that are limited by nature, from Earth to Śiva - alone is the supreme reality. That is the ground for the establishment of all things. That is the vital essence of the universe. By That the universe lives and breathes, and That alone am I. Thus I embody the universe and yet transcend the universe." if you undertake the practice of yoga with the right View of yourself, that you already are a perfect and whole expression of the Divine and that you are doing yoga to realize and then fully express what is already true, then you have empowered your practice to take you all the way."

Tantra stresses sensual meditations - meditative savoring of food and music, as well as slowed down and ritualized acts of refined awareness like the Japanese tea ceremony - that allow us to cultivate our ability to let the senses meet their objects fully. In nondual Śaiva Tantra, this is called 'feeding the goddesses of the senses'. When fed properly, the 'goddesses' reward you by suffusing your awareness with aesthetic rapture ( chanakara), increasing your capacity to experience beauty. The whole world becomes more vivid and real, more radiantly lovely, more full of life-energy..." A karmic action is a morally charged action motivated by a desire to attain or avoid a particular result. When we learn to perform actions as service or sacrifice, investing in the process but letting go of our attachment to the final outcome, those actions have no karmic charge and therefore do not bind us, whatever the result may be."

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