Re: NeoTantra Yoga(path of sex)
Originally Posted by
yajvan
1. As see it there are three main schools:
Dvaita - uses the Siva Tantras. There are 10 of these agamas to study. Some calls this view bheda or with difference, or dualism.
Dvaita-Advaita - uses the Rudra Tantras. There are 18 of these agamas for study. Some call this bhedabheda or dualism and monism combined view.
Advaita - uses the Bhairava Tantra and there's 64 of these agamas for ones study. Some call this bheda or without difference - monism.
It is in vogue to only call the last set of 64 tantras (chatus-sasti) as Tantras. Saiva agamas are popularly called, well, saiva agamas.
As far a philosophy, i think they don't speak of any particular but assume monism. The chatus-sasti tantras expound the chatus-sasti tattvas (which is the more granular division of the 25 tattvas of sankhya darshana). Tantra is thus sankhya in practice and some believe was started by maharshi kapilacharya himself. The set of 64 scriptures vary slightly according to the place one is located in bharata-varsha.
As I have known with some inquiry, philosophically there are primarily 2 groups among practicing tantrik's. One group leans towards the philosophy or kashmir saivism, while the 2nd group looks up to an orthodox vedic philosophy-generally kevala-advaita vedanta.
Moksha is surely the aim of the 2nd group...while philosophically it may be slightly different than moksha (as per advaita) for the 1st group.
Please correct me if my ideas are not correct.
Last edited by sm78; 02 January 2008 at 06:28 AM.
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