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18. SAKTISM
In Brihannila-tantra (8. 90) it is said: "Women are divine, women are breaths of life, women are the ornament. One should always unite with women, especially with beautiful."
Gandharva-tantra (40.51b-52a), Shrividya Agama states: "That Bliss which is born out of union of yoni and linga, should be known as [Bliss of] Immense Absolute and a path to Liberation."
Kularnava 9. 50 says: "O my Beloved! The joy derived from wine, meat and coition with women is Liberation for the wise, but a sin for the ignorants."
Yoni-tantra (8. 2) which says:"There is no Liberation without maithuna, such is the verdict of Shastras."
Kali-tantra 12. 22: "O Lady of gods, on the way of Kula Perfection is achieved not by pujas, nyasas or snanas, but only by japa in union with a woman."
Kali-tantra 9. 235-24a: "He who knows the heart of Kalika, who does Vama-sadhana with a woman, becomes divine and achieves eternal Liberation." Kulamrita-dipika says: "Sayujya is achieved through sexual union, there is no doubt in this".
Vivekananda http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/veda11.htm
Vol.3: The Vedanta in All Its Phases, pp.340-341.
When I see how much the Vamachara (Tantra] has entered our [Bengali] society, I find it a most disgraceful place, with all of its boast of culture. These Vamachara sects are honeycombing our society in Bengal. Those who come out in the daytime and preach most loudly about achara, it is they who carry on the horrible debauchery at night and are backed by the most dreadful books. They are ordered
by the books to do these things. You who are of Bengal know of it. The Bengal Shastras are the Vamachara Tantras. They are published by the cart-load, and you poison the minds of your children with them instead of teaching them our Shrutis. Fathers of Calcutta, do you not feel ashamed that such horrible stuff as these Vamachara Tantras, with translations too, should be put into the hands of your boys and girls, and their minds poisoned, and that they should be brought up with the idea that these are the Shastras of the Hindus? If you are ashamed, take them away from your children and let them read the true Shastras - the Vedas, the Gita and the Upanishads.
It is easy to see how the ideal concepts of Holy Spirit as the creative process in the Trinity and the idea that love is the fulfilment of law has been high jacked into perverted forms in the Vamachara.
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