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a mystic has no proof. He cannot have any proof by the very nature of things. HE IS the only proof -- so he can bare his heart to you.
These verses, these Songs of Saraha, have to be meditated on deeply. Each song can become the opening of a flower in your heart. I hope these forty verses will become forty flowers in your being, as they became in the being of the king. The king was liberated -- so can you be. Saraha has penetrated the target. You can also penetrate the target. You can also become a Saraha -- one whose arrow is shot.
The Tantra Vision, Vol 1
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The goose is out!
22 April 1977 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7704220
ShortTitle: TVIS102
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 95 mins
The first question:
Question 1
IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE APPROACHES OF SHIVA AND SARAHA TOWARDS TANTRA?
NOT REALLY, NOT ESSENTIALLY. But as far as the form is concerned, yes. Religions differ only in the form. Religions differ only in their methodology. Religions differ as far as the door into the Divine is concerned, but not existentially. And there are only two basic formal differences: that of the path of devotion, prayer, love, and the path of meditation, awareness. These two basic differences persist.
Shiva's approach is that of devotion; it is that of prayer, of love. Saraha's approach is that of meditation, awareness. The distinction is still formal, because when the lover and the meditator reach they arrive at the same goal. Their arrows are released from different angles, but they reach the same target. Their arrows are released from different bows, but they reach the same target. The bow does not matter finally. What type of bow you have chosen does not matter if the target is attained.
And these are the two bows because man basically is divided into two: thinking and feeling. Either you can approach reality through thinking or you can approach reality through feeling.
The Buddhist approach -- the approach of Buddha and Saraha is through intelligence. It is basically through the mind that Saraha moves. Of
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