HARE KRISHNA,ALL PRABHUJIS AND MATAJIS!
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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Srila Vyasdev revealed the total Vedic literature ,but I want to know, did he write the TANTRA SASTRAS also ?
If he did not write the Tantra Sastras, then who did write the Tantra Sastras ?
Is every Tantra Sastra authentic ?
Please give me the necessary answers.
Your aspiring servant,
Dwaipayan.
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TEACHINGS FROM GAUTAMIYA-TANTRA.
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/group/krishnaconsciousness/forum/to...
TEACHINGS FROM SVAYAMBHUVA-TANTRA.
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/group/krishnaconsciousness/forum/to...
TEACHINGS FROM VAISHNAVA TANTRAS.
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/group/krishnaconsciousness/forum/to...
Yes, you are right, one of them is Brihad Gautamiya tantra.....but the tanrtas of the shakta sect are not authentic and are against the teachings of Bhagavad Gita and Vedas.
i read somewhere in Bhagavatam Srila Prabhupada says that Tantra, Yantra are not something demoniac things or as people mean black magic. Real Tantras are not so. Black magic is different from tantra.
Whoever wrote them must be some demonic atheist having no Self-realization, who to satisfy his own lustful instincts put his own words in the mouths of religion and gods.
Wow!!Dwaipayan prabhu!!! I too had the same question in my mind . I put it yesterday but was a little embarrassed. So I deleted it. In Tantra sastras, I found worship of male and female genitals and sex as a sacred object. I'm sure these are not the sanction of Vedas which are directly spoken by the Supreme personality of godhead. They have their own stupid tattvas, yoni tattva, lingam tattva. These tantra sastras are a production of orthodox shaktas who believe that everything even Bramha, Vishnu and Shiva have originated from the yoni of the Divine Mother. At the pretext of worshipping yoni, they indulge in sexual intercourse with teenage girls, sexually harassing them. To justify their actions, they refer to a conversation between Shiva and parvati from a so called tantric text called yoni tattva. I saw these in discovery and was utterly shocked. Sacrifice of babies are also mentioned in their texts. In short, tantric texts are meant for possessing certain occult powers and becoming a master of dark magic. It has nothing to do with realisation of Self or Krishna. Vedas speak of those rituals which are meant to satisfy Krishna but it never speaks of these bogus rituals. According to tantra, one can have meat and wine for a particular ritual. But Vedas preach of taking only sattvic food. Tantra has no connection with Vedas. Vedvyas wrote Vedas to deliver mankind and lead us to the Supreme Purush, not to perform bogus rituals and dark magic .
Tantra is a sacred and advanced spiritual science. It takes the whole person into account and makes ones whole life a divine worship. Thoe some of the practises do seem quite difficult to understand, one cant just comment on it thinking they understand it. Tantra classifies a person into 3 categories , Divya, Hero, Pasu. According to ones development certain practises are allowed and certain restricted. Divya level being the highest is far above the rituals and external sadhanas. The sacred union practises are also deeply misunderstood. A tantra guru will never allow a pasu natured person to perform this sadhana it is not allowed as they are not capable of succeeding in such a sadhana and will only cause downfall. Only a Hero natured person is mentally capable and Divya level has already risen above and needs not it for experience of Divine Consciousness. The Philosophy of Tantra is to make ones whole life an act of worship and a means of communion with God on all levels. It takes the whole person and his life into account and leaves not anything out or seperated from the Divine. The sacred union practises have nothing to do with Lust, whomever thinks that has no understanding of this practise, Tantra does not say look at sacred union with disgust, it says look at it with reverence. The sacred union practise is only a small fraction of what Tantra is. Tantra teaches you all that you do in life from relationships, jobs, family-life, just about any dimension of ones life can be a divine experience if done with reverence. A true Tantra practitioner includes God in all dimensions of his life offering all that he does as an act of love for God and desire to unite with God on all levels of ones life. It is the only Yogic Science which takes the whole person into account. It is also true it is a very abused science and people out there misuse it but that is with all paths, there will always be people who use it for upliftment and others whom use it for other purposes but this in no way can define the science of Tantra which is sacred.