PART V: ABOUT THE WIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE On the Characteristics of Men and Women, and the reason why Women reject the Addresses of Men. About Men who have Success with Women, and about Women... Read more
PART I CHAPTER I PREFACE Salutation to Dharma, Artha and Kama IN the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters lai... Read more
CHAPTER XXI ON THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF WISDOM, ITS NATURE AND SCRIPTURAL LORE 1. After Parasurama heard this from Sri Dattatreya he felt as if released from the meshes of ignorance. 2-8. He ag... Read more
The Yogini Tantra is a voluminous work held in high regard by practitioners of Vamachara. In a total of 28 chapters divided into two parts, it outlines every topic familiar to the Kaula and... Read more
This Hindu tantra is a brief but often quoted work of ten patalas or chapters. It is referred to, for example, in the Matrikabhedatantra. It also contains the daily pujas of Tara, Kali and S... Read more
This ancient text is attributed to Siddha Matsyendranath, said to be the founder of the Natha lineage, deals with the characteristics of the linga and discusses the flowers, centres or chakr... Read more
The word kankalamalini means garlanded in bones, or skeletons, a constant theme of texts related to the goddess Kali. This work therefore falls into the Kalikula category of tantrik texts. T... Read more
After churning the four Vedas and all the scriptures, the yogis have extracted their essence, leaving pandits to drink the butter milk which remains. (51) All the scriptures are like dirty l... Read more
Hindu tantras are discourses between Shiva and Shakti, the male and female aspects of divinity whose play creates the entire universe. The Jnanasankalini Tantra is a brief work of 107 shloka... Read more
Chapter Seven The chapter opens with something of a tiff between Shiva and Shakti. The goddess wants to know about the tattva, and entreats Shiva, if he has love for her, to reveal these det... Read more
