ABSTRACT

While modern India is complex, plural and perhaps foundationally connected with its rich liberatory paths, there is reason to be concerned when a large number of people are fed hate-filled rhetoric against their own long-term neighbors. Today the virulent ideology of a purported “Hindu” rashtra is growing under governmental provocation. It needs an alternative vision which can be resurrected from India's own suppressed history. That is Tantric India, whose liberatory paths with women and goddesses is compatible with the contemporary world. India has been a magnet for “spiritual” seekers around the world because the great sages were helping to free us from our conditioned selves. This worldview, that encompassed all Indic dharmas, was developed especially by Shaiva, Shakta and Buddhist enlightened beings, and was set against an upper caste hegemony of truncated Vedism. The true masters who developed a real science of tantric praxis taught how to appreciate the world here and now without violence to the self, earth or the perceived other. From ancient yogic explorations of humanistic psycho-spiritual development that has been a hallmark of India, a profoundly egalitarian world view had developed during 8th through 12th centuries. It is time we reexamine that history and imagine a different Subcontinent.

摘要

尽管现代印度是复杂的，多元化的，也许与其丰富的解放道路有着根本的联系，但当大量人饱受仇恨的言论针对他们自己的长期邻居时，有理由要担心。如今，在政府的挑衅下，所谓的“印度”拉什特拉的凶猛意识形态在不断增长。它需要一种可以从印度自己被压制的历史中复活的另类愿景。那就是密宗印度，其与妇女和女神的解放之道与当代世界兼容。印度一直吸引着世界各地的“精神”追求者，因为伟大的贤哲帮助我们摆脱了条件自身的束缚。这种世界观涵盖了所有印度佛法，尤其是由谢瓦（Shaiva），释迦（Sakta）和佛教开明的生物发展而来的，并反对截断的吠陀主义的上层阶级霸权。真正开发了密宗实践科学的真正的大师们教给人们如何在这里和现在欣赏世界，而又不会对自己，地球或被感知的他人施加暴力。从古代瑜伽对人文精神-精神发展的探索开始，印度一直是它的标志，在8至12世纪间，人们发展出了深刻的平等主义世界观。现在该是我们重新审视历史并想象另一个次大陆的时候了。在8至12世纪间，发展了一种极为平等的世界观。现在该是我们重新审视历史并想象另一个次大陆的时候了。在8至12世纪，发展了一种极为平等的世界观。现在该是我们重新审视历史并想象另一个次大陆的时候了。