The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha

 A man, with no particular taste or passion for whatever the writer of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha has written or spread out in his writing over the scrolling years, I reckon that by writing a review of any kind about this so-called Guru’s so-called insights is deemed impossible from my end. The writer of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha, Chandra Mohan Jain (known nowadays as Acharya Rajneesh, or even Bhagwan Rajneesh, or otherwise, also holding the nickname, Osho)—an inspirational figure to many, a Guru and a master who has guided many around the globe starts his book by fetching for unhealthy keys that are the causes of many known sufferings on our planet. The Preface he writes is one item that denies me from reading The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha any further. However, by acknowledging that by judging a book by its cover or Preface, would not serve the purpose of knowledge after all, I resulted to slaving through this book thoroughly in ‘one go’. The following is the ending outcome of this reading…

The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha

Review written by Vimal Kodai 

A notable point that caught my attention prior to navigating through this book by Guru Rajneesh, was the idea behind what creates devil instincts inside of all pure-hearted souls. What is the root of evil? How can it be elevated? How can it vanish? How can it be destroyed, annihilated, eliminated and/or taken away from all good-natured origins?

The subjective writings from Guru Rajneesh that allowed me to read his book further, comes up in the following initial forms: “There is no unbridgeable gap between the Devil and God: the Devil is carrying God deep down his heart. Once that heart starts functioning, the Devil becomes God.” 

This sentence’s ending part brought a new form of understanding into my life. It created something which had been keeping in an illusion for quite a number of years. Although this statement cannot be truly justified in several fragments of any living being’s life journey, it provides a positive glimpse on how to understand and handle evil-minded thoughts in the self and in other selves.

The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha at one point, compares the tantric experience deriving from Shiva’s Tantra versus Saraha’s Tantra—what makes these two Tantric forms unique and common, or rather, what makes them uniquely common are the fact that both lead to purity and peacefulness, however the approaches taken from each of these tantric manifestations are met with pathways boarding spiritual diversities.  Howsoever the routes taken by living forms to reach the ultimate reality of bliss, the writer of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha offers one perspective that strikes as appealing to his readers: “Agreement, disagreement, is about theories, not about truth. So when you agree with me you are not really agreeing with me; you start feeling your theory that you have already been carrying with you.” (Page 25) 

When the pinpointing truth with which one really needs to connect in one’s lifetime on the planet has been fulfilled, the certainty of the right divine comfort is felt.  At this precise moment, no remedy or no such beliefs or any kinds of platforms laid or set forth by any living being makes sense—the peaceful clarity that is felt surpasses all and reassures one that this truth threshold has been attained. No other understandings make sense as the mind has already agreed with this divine order’s true reality. It is the quest of this true reality that has been keeping the mind puzzled all throughout, and at the prompt instance of this enlightening manifestation, a sense of true joy is felt. The untrue is sifted from the true whereby a true vision of clarity is felt in the interior within self. A joy that surpasses all sufferable clauses is felt.

This book even goes to the extent of explaining the real impact of a Master on the mind of a living being. Thus, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara intones on true happiness that can be lived with when the cunning mind is made to handle doubts with the guided approaches of a Master. The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara denotes that trusting a Master disallows the self to listen to what the mind is really saying. A true Master guides the mind (s) to discover its real potentials, but a fake Master plunges the mind in an even worse state of doubtful abode. The truth can neither be accepted nor explored when a Master deviates the real meaning of truth and trust from the mind’s identity. As such, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara suggests the following: “Listening to the master, trusting the master, by and by the mind is neglected. Many times you have to drop the mind, because the master is saying something which goes against it—it always goes against it. Neglected, mind starts dying.” (Page 79 – 80)

 

In a different perspective approach to the book The Power of Now (written by Eckhart Tolle), The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara also prescribes the mind to be its own master by possessing the right pathed choice for leading the body and mind (altogether) in the righteous direction.

 

More deepened thoughts are elevated from this must-read book by Guru Rajneesh. It is a highly recommended book to be read by all as it can certainly allow blockages in minds to be set on open-minded platforms whereby prospective perspectives on life’s various faces can be overlooked.

 

A brief description of Saraha – the invisible protagonist of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara. 

The Tantra Experience which manifests in the man known as Rahul, is first of all his tantric experience of perceiving the spiritual beauty in a woman who in turn eventually unlocked him from his own self by releasing his spiritual self outwardly. Thereafter, Rahul became known as Saraha – for his having opened his own self to the path of enlightenment. Saraha’s true self-realization took effect when he reached the point of knowing what the truth was really about and what it meant to be truthful by knowing the true truth in one’s lifetime. His ability to find the spiritual beauty hidden in one pious woman’s true self-worth gave rise to this name—Saraha. Saraha is known to have revived the Buddha within his own self. The Royal Song of Saraha is composed of a narrated form of poetry that comes from the truthful experience lived by Rahul – who is the unrealized name of the same man called Saraha. The latter became known since as this true enlightened spiritual being.