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| SRI Yantra |
The 'left-hand path' (LHP) so popular in the west for the last decades has its origins mainly in the Tantric teachings.
Intro below views LHP from a Tantric standpoint:
The Right-hand path (Dakshinachara in Sanskrit) offers safe and relatively effective spiritual progress methods. These methods adhere to strict rules and norms, which help practitioners advance in a safe inner environment.
The Left Hand Path (Vāmamārga in Sanskrit), on the other hand, takes a diametrically opposite approach. Its methods and techniques are most effective, direct, and quite dangerous.
The Left-Hand Path denounces the notion that purity and light define closeness to salvation. The LHP Adepts embrace the negativity (shadow side of the psyche). They ritually consume intoxicants and psychoactive substances. They employ body fluids and energies to rapidly progress by performing advanced sex rituals (with a partner and various spirits).
LHP embraces Darkness by working with "demons" and other powerful spirits that most Right-hand path practitioners wouldn't even dream of evoking even if they knew such beings existed.
By the power of their Will and blessings of Beings the LHP Adepts work with, one such ritual can and indeed does yield results of maybe several years of the safe and steady Right-hand path practice.
It is said that walking the edge of a sharp razor and riding a wounded tiger is not as potentially dangerous as performing Tantric rituals.
I have seen that even most advanced practitioners fall and fail, not just for a few moments or months or years, but for several lifetimes.
The Left-Hand Path is open to all, yet only a few succeed. It takes courage, detachment, determination, and complete surrender to Inner Higher Power (or the Devi, i.e., Lilith or Kali).
LHP is not about fancy / angry dark worshipers; it is about using the Darkness to go beyond it; LHP is not about worshipping anything or anyone.
LHP / Tantra adores freedom, independence, creativity, and harmony and goes beyond the opposites of Light & Darkness or Good & Bad.
Intro below views LHP from a Tantric standpoint:
The Right-hand path (Dakshinachara in Sanskrit) offers safe and relatively effective spiritual progress methods. These methods adhere to strict rules and norms, which help practitioners advance in a safe inner environment.
The Left Hand Path (Vāmamārga in Sanskrit), on the other hand, takes a diametrically opposite approach. Its methods and techniques are most effective, direct, and quite dangerous.
The Left-Hand Path denounces the notion that purity and light define closeness to salvation. The LHP Adepts embrace the negativity (shadow side of the psyche). They ritually consume intoxicants and psychoactive substances. They employ body fluids and energies to rapidly progress by performing advanced sex rituals (with a partner and various spirits).
LHP embraces Darkness by working with "demons" and other powerful spirits that most Right-hand path practitioners wouldn't even dream of evoking even if they knew such beings existed.
By the power of their Will and blessings of Beings the LHP Adepts work with, one such ritual can and indeed does yield results of maybe several years of the safe and steady Right-hand path practice.
It is said that walking the edge of a sharp razor and riding a wounded tiger is not as potentially dangerous as performing Tantric rituals.
I tend to agree with that notion.
I have seen that even most advanced practitioners fall and fail, not just for a few moments or months or years, but for several lifetimes.
The Left-Hand Path is open to all, yet only a few succeed. It takes courage, detachment, determination, and complete surrender to Inner Higher Power (or the Devi, i.e., Lilith or Kali).
LHP is not about fancy / angry dark worshipers; it is about using the Darkness to go beyond it; LHP is not about worshipping anything or anyone.
LHP / Tantra adores freedom, independence, creativity, and harmony and goes beyond the opposites of Light & Darkness or Good & Bad.
