Tantra Is Sadhana, Sadhana Is Tantra: Difference between revisions

{{Quote box|width=360px|bgcolor=|align=left|quoted=1|salign=right|quote=What is the nature of the sádhaná of human beings? The bondages and mental limitations that afflict human beings exist not in the external sphere, but in the internal sphere. One whose mind is very narrow is a mean-minded person, whereas one whose mind is broad is a great person. Sádhaná broadens and enlarges the mind. How? It is the innate characteristic of the human mind to become as it thinks – Yádrshii bhávaná yasya siddhirbhavati tádrshii [“As you think, so you become.”] To associate oneself with Parama Puruśa, the Supreme Entity, is the actual sádhaná. There is no one greater than Parama Puruśa, and so, when the mind ideates on Him, it expands.|source=Shrii Shrii Anandamurti}}

Anandamurti starts the discourse by saying that behaind every action there is a particular sound. The sound "Ta" represents inertness and staticity. The first meaning of the word '' Tantra'' is liberation from the bondage of crudeness and dullness of mind. Anandamurti then explains that the the root verb "Tan" means to expand. The second meaning of '' Tantra'' is liberation through expansion. Thinking of [[Parama Purusa]] means thinking about the greatest entity - The Supreme Being. Such an ideation makes the mind broaden. Anandamurti goes on saying that expansion is the goal of human life and the means to release ourselves from bondage. Without [[Sadhana]] liberation is an impossibility.<ref name="AV4"/>