It is my duty to lift you up to the infinite heights of bliss and yours
to take me down to the depths of your senses…. bringing together
these extremes opens the doors out of this mortal dimension and
stops time in order to feel the Infinite grace of the Universe……
by J. Ram Sivananda to Chandi Devi
The Goddess resides in all women and the Lord abides in all men.
…Jvalavali Jajramala
Along with Gopa, he experienced bliss.
By uniting the diamond scepter and lotus,
He attained the fruit of bliss.
Buddhahood is obtained from bliss, and
Apart from women there will not be bliss
The man [sees] the woman as a goddess
The woman [sees] the man as a god.
By joining the diamond scepter and lotus,
They should make offerings to each other.
There is no worship apart from this.
… Candamaharosana-tantra
Therefore, one who desires Buddhahood
Should practice what is to be practiced.
To renounce the sense objects
Is to torture oneself by asceticism-don’t do it!
When you see form, look!
Similarly, listen to sounds,
Inhale scents,
Taste delicious flavors,
Feel textures.
Use the objects of the five senses –
You will quickly attain supreme Buddhahood.
… Candamaharosana-tantra
Creator God Prajapati upon creating woman:
Having created her, he worshipped her sexual organ;
Therefore a woman’s sexuality should be worshipped.
He stretched forth from himself a stone for pressing nectar
[i.e., causing a woman’s sexual fluid to flow]
And impregnated her with that.
Her lap is the sacrificial altar;
Her hair, the sacrificial grass;
Her skin the soma press;
The depths of her sexual organ, the fire in the middle
Many mortals…go forth from this world…without merit,
Namely, those who practice sexual union without knowing this.
……Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 6.4.1-4
Constantly take refuge at my feet, my dear…
Be gracious, beloved, and
Give me pleasure with your diamond scepter.
Look at my three petaled lotus,
It is a Buddha paradise, adorned with a red Buddha,
A cosmic mother who bestows
Bliss and tranquility on the passionate.
Abandon all conceptual thought and
Unite with my reclining form;
Place my feet upon your shoulders and look me up and down.
Make the fully awakened scepter
Enter the opening in the center of the lotus.
Move a hundred, thousand, hundred thousand times
In my three-petaled lotus
Of swollen flesh.
Placing one’s scepter there, offer pleasure to her mind.
Wind, inner wind-my lotus is the unexcelled!
Aroused by the tip of the diamond scepter,
It is red like a bandhuka flower.
….Candamaharosana-tantra.
yab-yum union
Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space –
digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by
the Divine Presence. Kirtan is singing over and over the many
names of God and the Goddess, the multi-colored rainbow manifestations
of the One. It is said that there is no difference between the name
and that which is being named, and as the words roll off our lips
in song, the Infinite is invoked, invited, made manifest in our
hearts.
Kirtan is part of an ancient form of Yoga known as Bhakti, or the Yoga
of Devotion. But in Bhakti we redefine “devotion”, we expand the
meaning to include every shade of color in the palette of human
emotion, turned towards God through song, dance, and worship. These
chants have been sung for millennium by sages, sinners, devotees, and
the great primordial yogi alchemists of old. And, as we
sing, we touch the spirits of the millions of people across the
centuries who have sung the same songs and criedthesametears.As we
sing, we immerse ourselves in an endless river of prayer that has
been flowing since the birth of the first human beings, longing to
know their creator.
Kirtan is a vessel that can hold love, longing, union, separation,
lust, despair, mourning, anger, hate, sadness, ecstasy, and oneness.
Powered by the fire of these emotions, the chants of Bhakti become
like a ship, singing us to the other shore. In lightness, in
darkness, in despair, in joy we sing the names– The Name — and turn
our human hearts toward the One, who is closer to us than our own
breath. Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song.
Kirtan is for all people. There are no masters of kirtan, no experts,
no teachers, no advanced students, no beginners. The practice
itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan teaches itself
by allowing us to enter into a mystery world — a world where all
the logic of our minds, all the conditioning and learning are left
outside — and we allow ourselves to expand into the mystery.
And in this mystery, we create a temple inside of our hearts, a place
of refuge, a place of love, a place of being, a place of
sanctity… whatever we need.
There is no right or wrong way to sing kirtan. Kirtan can be
breathtakingly beautiful, the music can be stunning and masterful; and
it can be cacophonous, dissonant, and almost painful to the ears.
Aesthetics don’t matter. All that matters is the spirit, the
feeling. Don’t worry about what you sound like, feel whatever you feel,
have no expectations, no inhibitions. Kirtan is an oil well
digging deeper and deeper into the heart. A power tool of love and
longing. A train carrying us home. Make these kirtans your own prayers
and use their power to set fire to your own soul. We sing together
and each person has a totally unique, individual experience. Yet by
singing together we give strength, safety and passion to each
other, and give ourselves permission to sing and dance freely,
releasing and expressing through our voices and bodies, the emotions
tightly locked in our hearts. The pain of separation is one with the
bliss of Union.
And finally kirtan is an offering, a gift to the great One who has
given us everything, and to whom we can give nothing in return but our
loving remembrance.
Only a knower understands
what our supreme home is like
Lightning flashes without any clouds
There is no sun, yet there is brillant light
The pearl in that realm appears without a shell
There is no sound and yet the Word reverberates
All other forms of light are humbled by
the Lord’s effulgence
The Indestructible, Unfathomable lies beyond
Kabir says, That is my home.
Which only disciples of the Guru can perceive.
…Kabir
Just as a river flowing for a long time, merges,
In the ocean and becomes the ocean, when
Kundalini has finished Her work and stabilized in
The sahasrara, you become completely immersed in God
All your impurities… are destroyed, and you take complete
Rest in the Self. The veil which make you see duality drop away
And you experience the world as blissful play of Kundalini,
A sport of God’s energy.. You see the universe as supremely blissful
Light, undifferentiated from yourself, and you remain unshakeable in
This awareness. This is the state of liberation, the state of
perfection.
…Baba Muktananda
You are my Self; Parvati is my reason. My five pranas are Your
attendants, my body is Your house, and all the pleasures of my senses
are objects to use for your worship. My sleep is Your state of
samadhi. Whereever I walk I am walking around You, everything I say is
in praise of You, everything I do is in devotion to You,
O benevolent Lord.
Whatever sins I have committed with my hands, feet, voice, body,
actions, ears, eyes, or mind, whether prohibited by the scriptures or
not, please forgive them all. Hail! Hail! O ocean of compassion!
O great God! O benevolent Lord!
…Guru Gita
Having been through worldy relationships, I have come to your door.
May the thread of love that connects me to You never break, O Lord.
Since the day I gave my heart to You, I am beside myself with ecstasy.
Like someone mad with love, I roam about dancing.
Your song has awakened my love.
And this love has touched off an extraordinary pain in my heart.
These eyes of mine are filled with the vision of You.
I can never forget your exquisite beauty.
Having been through wordly relationships, I have come to your door.
O Lord, please don’t reject me, for I have taken refuge in You.
You are the one who enchants my heart.
Only you can remove my pain.
The Mahabharata says:
Dharma, righteousness, always wins, never unrighteousness.
Truth is always victorious:untruth always fails in the end.
Patience, forebearance, always wins out, not anger.
One who is patient becomes established in the Absolute, in Brahman.
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