Asceticism and Monastic orders for both men and woman are institutions quite common in almost all world religions.
But Tantrism does not promote either the separation of man and woman or throwing them into monastic orders where they torture themselves to death each time the EROS shows up against their will. Instead of devising ingenious ways to suppress, repress and DENY the Eros, the Tantrics go to the very roots of EROS and BURN it so that such impulses are eradicated totally from the system.
They see this as attaining an Inner Purity and True Freedom where EROS is considered as part of being a defiled self, a self caught up inescapably in the historical, a perpetual tie with FLESH and hence bound and not free.
From very ancient times, Tantrism has also recognized the presence of Inner Moon and Sun as potent forces that install various kinds of instincts like Eros, the desire for Power and so forth. Here they also have recognized that while the Inner Moon, the Woman is responsible for the ordinary EROS that binds man and woman to Samsara, historical existence caught up in the evolutionary mechanism of the cosmos, the Inner Sun can, if activated, BURN this and FREE the human beings from sexuality.
One way of activating this Inner Sun is gaining deep and profound metaphysical INSIGHTS, illuminations that would flood the interior with FIRE that tend to burn off the erotic desires and pining after sexual partners. But it also follows that there is another level of sexuality where the union does not involve the normal ejaculation of the seminal fluid but rather the elicitation of NECTAR that would, in addition to giving a youthful body also would furnish further illuminations that would root out EROS totally and irrecoverably.
It is stated that this is the Siddhi, an attainment that would make a person a Siddha or Civayogi, the ideal spiritual individual set up by Tantrism and which is certainly NOT the birth based Brahmanah.
36.
1959
அமுதச் சசிவிந்துவாம் விந்து மாள
அமுதப் புனலோடி அங்கியின் மாள
அமுதச் சிவயோகம் ஆதலாற் சித்தி
அமுதப் *பலாவனம் ஆங்குறும் யோகிக்கே
பாடபேதம்*: பிலாவன
உரை:
உடலின்பம் தந்து சந்தான விருத்திக்கு ஏதுவாகும் அபரவிந்துவின் சந்திரவடிவத்தின் தண்ணொளிக் கசிவு காமப்பாலின் அபரவிந்துவின் ஆட்சி மாள, உள்ளிருந்து எழும் பரநாதத்து நெருப்பினால் ஞானப்புனலாக ஓடும் கானற்பாலினால் அது மாள, சந்தான விருத்தியில் வீழ்த்தாத அமுதம் உண்ணும் சிவயோகம் சித்தியாகும். அதுபொழுது அந்த யோகிக்கு அமுதப்பிலாவனமாகிய என்றும் இளைமையோடு வாழத்தரும் அமுதப்பெருக்கு மெய்யாகும்.
36.
1959
amutac cacivintuvaam Vintu maaLa
amutap punaloodi anGkiyin maaLa
amutac civayookam aataalaaR citti
amutap pilaavana aaGkuRum yookikkee
Meaning:
The dominance of Apara Bindu, that which appears as the Inner Moon and provides the milk of ordinary sexual bliss that traps one in species regeneration, dies and it dies because of the Fire that comes from the ParaNatam, the Inner Sun. When this is achieved then there will be drinking of Nectar of eternal youthful vitality and which constitute the Siddhi as well as genuine Civayoga. For such yogis there will be an immense flooding of nectar that will make the body eternal youthful
37.
1960
யோகமாம் விந்து ஒழியாவகை புணர்ந்து
ஆகம் இரண்டுங் கலந்தாலும் ஆங்குறாப்
போகம் சிவபோகம் போகி நற்போகமா
மோகங்கெட முயங்கார் மூடர் மாதர்க்கே
உரை:
குண்டலினி யோகமாய் சுக்கில வித்து ஒழியாவகைப் புணர்ந்து, மெய்யுற ஆண் பெண் ஆகங்கள் இரண்டும் கலந்தாலும், ஆங்கு சாதராண காமபோகம் உறாது இன்பம் தூய்த்தால் அதுவே சிவபோகமாகும். இவ்வாறு முயங்கி மோகம் கெடுப்பது நினையாது சாதாரண போகியர்கள், மூடர்களாக அற்ப காம இன்பத்திற்கு ஏங்கி மாதர்க்கே மயங்குவர்.
37.
1960
yookamaam Vintu oziyaavakai puNarntu
aakam iraNduG kalantaalum aaGkuRaap
pookam civapookam pooki naRpookamaa
mookaG keda muyaGkaar muudar maatarkkee
Meaning:
The Civayookam, the enjoyment of Siva Bliss is NOT the ordinary sexual union where there is ejaculation of the seminal fluid that would serve to bring about species regeneration. It is a union where such ejaculations do not take place though there are bodily unions but where the sexual desire itself is transmuted. The ordinary man not knowing this will pine for females for enjoying the bliss or ordinary sexuality.
Comments:
The ‘amutac caci Vintu” is a very ancient notion in Tantrism and which is also common in all religions, however distorted and camouflaged it may be. There is the Inner Moon, a form of Apara Bindu which in fact as the form of the BEING-as-Woman (the Kaamatci etc) installs the sexual instinct, the EROS that make the male and female come together, unite sexually and with that produce progeny that would perpetuate the species and as phenomenal expression of the desire for immortality. But there is within also the Inner Sun, the form of Para Natam, that sends red-hot rays or FIRE, the Agni that would BURN this moon rays and with that FREE a man from the cosmic mechanisms that bind him to the historical. This burning off by the Inner Fire of the antics of the Inner Moon, is that which liberates the man from being bound to the historical, which along with binding him to the FLESH also binds him to the experince of DEATH and all the miseries that come along with it.
But the Tantrics like Tirumular do not propose the avoidance of women and leading a ascetic or monastic kind of life and which is quite common in practically all religions. There is a species of Civayookam where the sadhana is the sexual act itself but where it is enjoyed without discharges of the seminal fluid. As already explained, as a result of deep and true insights into the genesis of sexuality itself, one can lift up oneself to a Pakkuvam, an inner spiritual maturity where one is equipped well to enjoy sex but without the discharge of seminal fluid. Tirumular notes that such enjoyments in fact are that which FREES one from sexuality, from the instinct of EROS and thereby allows one to enjoy true freedom.
Loganathan @ Ullaganar
( Editing and re-paragraphing by his student )
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