@Kuru Sandhyasa, besides attacking people, besides fear mongering, what have you contributed to this site and the sadhakas who are here to learn something? NOTHING! Instead of being so negative, why don't you first share some pearls of wisdom to demonstrate how your idea about what should be shared and not with concrete examples? You can see from the responses of other sadhakas, that nobody seems to be in agreement with your harsh attacks that borders at the edges of insult while being totally empty in its contents. I dare you first to create some credibility with your knowledge, teachings, decoding, deciphering mantras that no contributor on this site has achieved so far. Then and only then, can you constructively criticize people like Tivra or Prince. So far you appear like an extremely angry, empty vessel. Talk is cheap, first show us your walk. Thank you!

We have provided references wherever possible so that interested seekers can verify and apply due diligence. There are warnings and suggestions. Most people are not aware that more than 90% of the Tantric scriptures are in the archives of various Nepal libraries and in private possessions, besides numerous other Indian libraries. Not all manuscripts have been digitized leave alone their translation or transcription. Many scriptures have been lost due to neglect, secrecy, natural and man-made causes etc. Let there be greater interest and enthusiasm among seekers to help drive the translations and restore the hidden glory of the tantras and various other scriptures for the benefit of the world. One who does not face difficulties in their path, are certainly not on the right one. I strongly believe in this. Those who fall while learning to ride a bicycle will certainly succeed and ride miles on them. If we are scared at the very outset to explore the world of tantras, then this is certainly not the path to follow. I tried finding suitable gurus for 3 decades and finally found Shri Ravi ji, Shri Krishna ji of Medhayoga and Shri Ramesh ji besides others to help me get further in my own spiritual pursuits. During this entire pursuit, I simply followed books and advice from others who did the same. It took me time, but I was able to find learned and well-meaning gurus and accelerate my own spiritual practice. I still interact with many gurus and enrich myself with their insights and when possible, incorporate their knowledge into the articles. Every article on this website is updated as and when we find more relevant information. My own endeavor is that no one should face the ordeal I faced in finding suitable gurus and knowledge and be discriminated against for any reason, so I will do my best to ensure that the knowledge flow on this website does not stop even after my heart stops beating! For the seekers of tantra, may this website be the lighthouse of information to guide them on their journey besides their own gurus and teachers. For those who cannot find gurus, they may start with simple name chanting or stotra chanting or Purāṇic or Vedic mantras which may lead them to find an appropriate guide to progress faster. Besides, this website does offer alternate paths like Advaita, Upaṇiṣads, Purāṇas, Meditation etc that one may explore. Knowledge by itself, can help us gain self-realization. This is the promise of Advaita, Upaṇiṣads etc.

Krishna, i do understand where you come from and there is benefit to publication and teachings but it must be done responsibly. And if one is to give out these teachings they must be able to gauge how to responsibly give teachings. By Ravi ji this was taking place, and you have done many helpful things as well. You have brought much to light that is helpful. But without responsibility, restraint, and determinance in what is to be given and how it is to be given, what has the potential to be a huge help can just be a chaos in the life of a seeker. Please take this into consideration, as well as everything else I have said. I may seem harsh but it is because i only seek the best outcome. May clarity, guru's grace, and blessings that result from correct action fall upon all who genuinely seek this path or any other.

Namaste Dear Kuru Sandhyasa. Greetings to you and everyone here! I sincerely request that we please desist from getting personal on any viewpoints and agree to disagree with others in a polite and respectful way. I do not wish to edit anybody's comments but will be forced to, if this is not complied with. Other admins may entirely delete the deemed offensive comments, so I try and jump in as much as possible to quickly endorse the comments. I am personally very thankful to revered Tivra, Prince, Dylan, Tripuraghna, Jothi and many others for donating their valuable time in providing invaluable guidance and assistance to sādhakas to advance in their sādhanas. I can endorse to the difficulty of finding valuable guidance that this site offers and had this knowledge been available to me many decades ago, my life would have been completely different! Let us be grateful for what is offered here and may it be of benefit to the sincere seekers. Further, I would also recommend folks to read "The garland of Letters" book by Arthur Avalon to understand what a string of letters can do in awakening the spiritual cakras with our body. Also, this website was designed to be a guide to self-realization and Shri Ravi ji took painstaking efforts forsaking his career, family life, health, wealth etc. in adding content for the benefit of all seeking nothing for himself or his family. The name of the site is a misnomer in itself. It can be a warning to people not to follow or to educate themselves and decide what to follow and skip etc. I certainly welcome criticism as well as encouragement. Once again, we need to keep ourselves polite and be respectful to everyone. No one including me have the right to tell anyone not to post comments or go away. It is my personal desire that all everyone should benefit from what is posted here and will be posted here in the times to come. One more point to note, is that the experience of each individual differs and the commanility may not exist. We encourage sādhakas to find an appropriate guru and provide limited guidance ourselves to mantras that we have practiced. Also, I have published 100s of mantras and stotras that I have not diligently practiced myself, but I was still guided by the grace of the Divine Mother to undertake the journey. If She permits, there will be 100s more and this will go on even after I am no longer here and someone else will take up the efforts. It is the power of the Divine Mother and the guru parampara that lets this happen and so be it!

Your line of thinking is that: "believing that a string of letters is inherently divine feels like a bit of a stretch.". You clearly do not understand, hold sacred, or have any sort of self revealed experience in these traditions. So why are you here then, giving advice to those who do want to follow these traditions, when you yourself do not hold these sacred?

"The text I shared was solid—it was well-researched, clear, and did a great job of showing the different sides of mantra sadhana. As adults, I think we’re better off avoiding extreme positions. It makes more sense to look at the facts and different perspectives before making up our minds. Ultimately, how someone chooses to practice is a personal call. Personally, if a Deity is going to penalize me over the 'technicalities' of a chant or how secret I keep it, I will reject the Deity from my life. Frankly speaking, I have never felt any penalties from ANY DEITY. That just means, that all this ‘fear mongering tactics’ are just falsehoods in my experience. And honestly, believing that a string of letters is inherently divine feels like a bit of a stretch. I’ve said my piece.

Various mantra dosha is precisely the reason why mantra should be initiated by guru only. You have answered your own question.

Prince, you say this yet you have said before that you have not even experienced something as foundational as kundalini. If you have never experienced the loss of grace or mantra shakti how can you possibly dismiss this, which is not only attested to within every tantric text and scripture, but experienced by those of attainment. There is no point in remaining in one place and yet thinking you know better than everyone else who has accomplished these things.

Namaste Dear Tivra, mostly when you are explaining a topic before the conclusion you scatter some "Gold Nuggets" during your conversation. One of the gold nuggets mentioned is "Arut Perum Jothi". To benefit more from this mantra, would it be beneficial to either at the beginning or the end to chant Arul? Or is simply chanting the complete Arut Perum Jothi mantra enough, because its essence is Arul anyway? Thanks in advance for your guidance.

this article touches a magical principle, but it is not tantric in nature, and i deeply doubt if it is useful alone, without context. Tantra is a flow of Guru's illusion, Mahamaya itself, unillusory because of the direct Will of Devi - to give sadhaka an illusion above all illusions, that is reflexive to its Source, and that leads to the Source Supreme. aham=idam is not a principle of philosophy, but a great achievement, that is possible through tivra sadhana & Guru anugraham. Guru is not a mentor but God. Ishta Devata is not a good imaginative creation that we make and start believing in; it is a primordial channel for the Will of True Guru, it is Essence of Guru. here is a great difference between the Western Ceremonial approach, that constructs Godforms to manage flows of Power, where good magicians say that gods are not to worship but to work with, and Tantra, which is able only through complete surrender to Guru, through only will to make Guru's "illusion" defeat the illusion of ego, thus having a chance to exit ilusion at all. there is no sence to think about nature of maya, as maya is the very nature of thinking. thank you for reading, and may God bless us with wisdom, if we can hold it.