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   A series of discourses on Tantra. These discourses are in the very truest   
   spirit of yoga for Liberation of Self and Service to the Universe.   
      
   These articles are a must for your collection and research in this valuable   
   subject area. As well as being indispensable for practical insights into   
   spiritual practices. They are informative, enlightening and consciousness   
   raising. Much knowledge can be    
   gained from their reading.   
      
   Ultimately, their use is as an aid to actual spiritual meditation practices   
   and in understanding one's Self and the spiritual nature of the Cosmos.   
   Insights of this are gleaned from the significant concepts in the material and   
   are from the deepest    
   spiritual perspective.   
      
   The ongoing format is a sutra (verse), a regular discourse (spiritual   
   scriptures), and an article from other works. From time there will be special   
   features and these may be ongoing over several weeks.   
      
   Key themes for the discourses appear in each issue.   
      
   Sample summaries:   
      
   Tantric Gems - 01 - In this first issues, the theme of the discourse 'The   
   Science of Action' is direct and indirect will, desire, action and reaction,   
   and reactive momenta (samskaras). It looks at pleasure and pain, motor and   
   sensory organs, vital energy    
   and perception.   
      
   Tantric Gems - 02 - Key themes for the first discourse are motor and sensory   
   organs, will power and mind, objective mind (citta), conscience or   
   discriminating judgement (buddhi), prana and pranah (vital energy) and atman   
   (soul). The next discourse looks    
   at matter and non-matter, inferential waves (tanmatra), organs (indriya) and   
   mind and perception.   
      
   Tantric Gems - 03 - This issue looks at the proper use (vaeragya) of things   
   and the different bases for body, mind and the spiritual. It also considers   
   Tantra and its effect on society, which is profound because of the fighting   
   spirit of tantrikas and    
   the spiritual practices, through awakening of the kula-kundalinii, that enable   
   a person to rise above animality and crudity and move to the higher mental and   
   spiritual faculties.   
      
   Tantric Gems - 04 - This issues considers what is Brahma, Shiva and Shakti and   
   what is the soul-plate and the mental-plate. It gives a rundown of the Cosmic   
   levels, ie Unqualified Cosmic Consciousness, Qualified Cosmic Consciousness,   
   Cosmic I-feeling,    
   Cosmic Doer-I, Cosmic Done-I. It also sets out the importance of food and   
   cells to physical and mental development and associates them to the three   
   binding factors (sentient, mutative and static).   
      
   Tantric Gems - 05 - This issue covers what is knowledge and human progress and   
   whether progress exists in the physcical, psychic or spiritual arenas. It also   
   explores how God is close to you and because the Cosmic Consciousness is   
   everywhere - you are    
   never alone.   
      
   Tantric Gems - 06 - This issue explores the stages of realisation espoused by   
   Krsna for devotees explained in such a way that one feels Krsna as one's   
   dearest. The other article is an explanation as to gender differences in   
   relation to incarnation of    
   mind, but with the clear message that sex difference has no relevance to   
   ability to attain spiritual realisation and hence spirituality does not   
   discriminate between male and female.   
      
   Tantric Gems - 07 - Covers the various propensities associated with each   
   chakra and the acoustic root of each 'petal' of each chakra. In effect this is   
   also the Sanskrit alphabet. Starting from the 5th chakra and working   
   downwards, is each consecutive    
   letter of the first 48 letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. Then the last 2   
   letters are the propensities associated with the 6th chakra. Also covered is   
   the binding attributes of the Cosmic Cycle, maya and liberation from maya   
   (illusion).   
      
   Tantric Gems - 08 - This issue again touches on the Sanskrit alphabet and the   
   acoustic roots of sounds (which are ultimately also associated with the petals   
   or propensiteis of the various chakras). Refer back to issue 7 for more   
   details. As part of each    
   issue of this email series, one letter of the Sanskrit alphabet will be   
   discussed. The letter a' is analysed in this edition.   
      
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