Spiritual life is unbelievably simple.
It is essentially all about single-pointed, sincere, intense love for God, by whatever name you want to call Her!
It's about obsessions and absorption, about losing yourself in love for that which is most love-able, Love Itself.
It's all about just choosing one Ideal and like a moth into flame, plunging recklessly into it!
It should be fun! It should always be fun. It's the most fun!

But, part of the fun is that we tend to make things very complicated for ourselves! Especially given how maximalist the Tāntrik tradition can be with all of its concepts, tools and techniques, we tend to ask somewhat unimportant questions and focus on peripheral, non-essential, and often unhelpful priorities. There is a great temptation and proclivity in Tantra to overcomplicate.

As such, the so-called left hand path of Tantra (Kaulamārga, Vāmācāra etc.) has always emphasized
intensity and sincerity over rules and purity,
force and feeling over form and finesse
ecstasy of feeling over technicality and thought!

Let's fucking lose our heads and go crazy for Mā already!
What the fuck are you waiting for? The world is mad! Let the dead bury their dead.
Fuck 'em.
Lets go dance mad with joy in the smaśāna with our friends, the ghosts and drink deep the liquor of devotion!

Here are the 3 simple, direct, no-nonsense, single-syllable mantras to do just that! ^ Jai fucking Mā!

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