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The Importance of Sexual Rituals in Tantra
Tantra is today in the West primarily and wrongly associated with sex. This is often a grave misreading or misunderstood aspect of this tradition. The sexual act represents the union and relationship between shiva and shakti, the two primary aspects of supreme consciousness itself. One can use that profoundly powerful central experience of sex as a tool for enlightenment through a mirroring of the essential pulsation of reality itself In a kind of microcosmic form,. And the two practitioners are engaging in a ritual act of sex. They are mirroring the sexual act of shiva andShafti, the basic pulsation movements of reality itself.
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