the story continues people not only see that that as soon as this started
i mean his spiritual experience came to maturity various different strands if different sectarian
movements of hinduism started to appear on the scene first we see if you like the
introduction to this ancient idea of hindus called tantra now the tantric tradition has
required a very bad reputation it is considered something illicit something kind of obnoxious
is called so the first people who have arrived here on the scene to get their credentials to
get some marks are the tantrics they appear now on the field in the story of ramakrishna
one day this ramakrishna was standing in the garden looking attending the flowers or something
and they saw a boat arrive on the bank of the river ganga and from there and like enlightened
you know come out a young woman a middle-aged woman really was very fair and very beautiful
and this woman stepped on the stair on the shores and this aram krishna quickly went into his room
and told his barney come here radi go and call that woman tell her that your mama wants to see
her this man never sees a woman and he wants to see a woman a beautiful woman mama mama i don't
know what he's up to now so let me check so i went to that woman called brahmani and said my mama who
spends his time worshipping the mother goddess has requested that you visit him brahmani said yes i
was looking for him all the time where is brother they said even she seems to know him very enough
he brought her to the room the moment this brahmani came look let me tell you what this
brahman is little bit of back i told you different characters will appear in the story they are all
individual they're highly different unusual and they're all worn into the story in a most colorful
manner this brahmani is an expert tantric in in her time she was very well known she had mastered
the tantric siddhis she was sid and this lady is this ancient idea of panthera somehow has been as
i said misunderstood and misrepresented was a very positive way of becoming spiritually enlightened
it talks about this idea that spirituality can be experienced through kundalini yoga
very ancient practice somehow it has never sat well with the vedantic practice which
is more philosophically oriented and here we see the reconciliation
of the tantra with the vedanta through the arrival of this individual called brahmani
and ramakrishna called her and she immediately responded she says i was looking for you i was
told by the mother goddess i should look out for three personalities i already met the other two
and i was looking for you you are special you are chosen and the mother at the meeting of the mother
goddess i am here the story unfolds now this ramakrishna already established in realization
of the mother of the universe spirituality is a personality super personality is the mother
goddess says oh you've been sent here by the mother goddess what do you want me to do she said
now i'm going there are 64 practices of tantra that i want you to practice and achieve all the
siddhis what are these cities and what's all about you see all of us have possessed tremendous powers
of mind tremendous power but they lay latent in us it's an ancient ancient science the hindus
have discovered for a long time it has laid kind of you know not been kind of fully pro invoked in
society it is led hidden in society and she said i come with the powers to make you if you like
achieve this tremendous siddhis make you a true yogi and develop tremendous powers
if mother god has said let's go for it this is how we did this is the story so now within a few days
this brahmany puts ramakrishna under he undergoes all these various difficult tantric practices
within a few days literally he covers them instantly without any difficulty
he's a master already he has no difficulty and in his life they become reconciled but now let
me show you the power of the sarama krishna he goes to tantra tradition he achieves you
know full marks he passes the test that is you see some people say tantra means you know kind
of somehow involved with sex or with drinking wine with ramakrishna nothing of nothing of this
thought was ever achieved nothing of the sword was ever used he passed the tantric practices
but look at this person and his abhorrence to siddhis he could not be bothered with any siddhis
he acquired them but he was not bothered while he was there the two other tantra could achieve
tremendous powers came to visit sri ramakrishna all of them will be attracted to him they all came
to visit him and when they one was called girija other was called chandra they came to see him
they had tremendous but this is recording in the story of ramakrishnan believe it or not
this girija could actually from his body through light in the middle of the night light of the
whole sky from his body and the both of them had the power of becoming invisible at will as soon
as they came near ramakrishna or dakshineshwar see the ramakrishna so these guys have lost their path
the aim of tantra is not to achieve siddhis it is in fact to achieve good realization see these are
a distraction they stop your path they stop you from making spiritual progress and they had become
an obstruction to these two youngsters the moment they came near aram krishna he pulled the siddhis
away forget about him being a siddha he was able to pull away somebody else's siddhi pulled the
carpet under the floor and they lost the siddhis in front of him they could not do these things
and ramakrishna warned them that tantras are not in order to achieve siddhis you see
again we hear in the hindu stories lots of siddha purush who have got tremendous powers mental
powers they can make things make things disappear all that here comes the the if you like the the
ramakrishna's understanding and explanation to what the siddhis all about he says keep away
they are a by-product and you know when you take medicine you don't want side effects these are
side effects in the process of spiritual enlightenment you don't encourage side you
know side effects i mean if you are a doctor i say when you take medicine even side effects
have to be demolished you don't take medicine to get side effects it's exactly what you don't do
here are these two practitioners who were using the side effects as the end product
and they came near him and he pulled them away again you see a modern vision of hinduism
we recognize the powers of siddhi keep them at bay do not be distracted by them focus on
making spiritual progress deciding discus you know finding your own like path to god
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