‘Abode of bliss as perfect as my own body’

 

The Bengal Tantra maintained that human body is the micro organism of the universe and therefore they maintained their body as the universe faces the laws of nature. They face seasons as the universe faces the law of season and they maintained that as the universe remain peace and quiet so their body should attain the silence and quietness. M.M Bose in Post Chaitanya Sahjiya Cults of Bengal Calcutta 1855 stated-

“The most important of all things is one’s own body.”

“And Thou should attain peace only when the mystery of the body is known to thee.”

“One who knows the mystery of one’s own body.”

“Is the most wise one; this is the message of all the scriptures. “

The body is the basis of all the disciplines.”

Here (within this body) is the Ganga and the Yamuna, here the Ganga-

Sagara, Prayaga, Kashi, here the sun and the moon, Here are all the sacred places- the pithas and the upapithas. I have never seen a place of pilgrimage and an abode of bliss as perfect as my own body.”

 These sects and cult still in practice at large and perform their rituals on certain days and time and at certain place. There are some work done on this stream of Indian philosophy but still need large work to cover. The real Hinduism led in such practices and cultures which still prevailed and now part of such practices are included in the Neo- Hindu religion which is a new way of practicing religion in India.

 There are evidences in history and also in literature in which such practice of occult, related to material world was practiced here on the land of spiritual idealism where the spirit is only the truth and nothing else,

“There are two basic trends in Indian culture, the Vedic and the non-

Vedic,” Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, in Materialism. Similarly,

Acarabheda Tantra of Viswas Kosa edited by NN Bose pg512 stated,

  “Worship the five principles, the sky flower, and the kula woman. That will be Vamacara. The ultimate female force is to propitiated by becoming a woman.” These cults took the nature as feminine unlike of Vedic people who symbolized or animated the natural powers as gods, in male form but these cults who believed that nature and only nature is truth maintained that Nature is only feminine and nothing else. Because like Maha Purusa, the Shiva who is supreme conscious and to attain that stage they made the nature as female, “It is currently believed that at the time of the first burst of rain, Mother Earth prepared herself for being fertilized by menstruating. During that time there is an entire cessation from all ploughing sowing, and other farm work,” The Cambridge History of India.

 Still there are secrets in these sects and very little has been known about their metaphysics and culture because they never record their rituals or system and they also not mingled with society, “The Tantra still remains as enigma to us, Very little work has been done in this domain and very little attempt has been made in the interpretation of its doctrines. But the fact remains that a vast literature has been written on it- a literature which is mostly found in manuscripts”

 This group created their own way of liberation and were not agreed to the

Vedic concept of evolution or society, “The sect are generally opposed to caste, In the matter of eating cooked food, where strict orthodoxy is observed by the various sects of the Hindu-nearly all these sects are without any prejudice” added Tantra Paricaya.