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.
