Tantric Music And Goddesses
Tantra and polarity
One of the main principles in the philosophy of Tantra is polarity which states that the universe consists of Shiva and Shakti. Shiva is the masculine principle (Yang) and Shakti is the feminine principle (Yin).
The masculine represents the transcendent aspects of the universe: The consciousness, the spirit, the world of ideas, while the feminine represents the imminent aspect of the universe: The material, the body, nature, our moods, life itself.
If Shiva does not have his Shakti he is but sterile ideas with no body. If Shakti does not have Shiva she is wild and chaotic and follows no essence or plan.
Shiva and Shakti dance together in a complex and beautiful dance which creates the universe, keeps it together and destroys it.
This dance exists on all levels of cosmos. For example on the cosmic scale, huge galaxies (Shakti) revolve around points in space, black holes (Shiva), singularities in space time.
Polarity exists in the couple relationship where the man embodies Shiva and the woman embodies Shakti. Polarity exists within us, our bodies, emotions and mental activity are Shakti while the spark of consciousness and awareness within us is Shiva.
Shiva is consciousness and Shakti is energy. Shiva is the mirror in which Shakti can see herself.
Resonance
Resonance is a fundamental law of the universe. The universe is pulsating energy (Shakti) covering an infinite scope of vibration.
Energy pulsating in one frequency will naturally tend towards other energy pulsating with the same frequency. This is a fundamental teaching of the theory of Resonance.
An energetic system which vibrates with a certain frequency will automatically start transferring information from another system vibrating in the same frequency.
E.g. if you are happy you will transfer data from other systems which have "happy energy". You will transfer data from all the people that ever were happy and transmitted happy energy into the universe.
Similar resonances can be transmitted through different mediums. A landscape can give you happy thoughts just as well as music and colors can.
If you listen to heavy metal for example you will join the network of all the people who listened to heavy metal and transferred their emotions into that network. You should be careful which resonances you associate with as you are transferring all the data into your being as the people that have associated with that resonance. In this case you might wind up becoming very angry and disharmonious.
Some say that you have to expose yourself to negative energies to become stronger. This may be true but only if you have the consciousness (Shiva) to go through it with awareness. Otherwise you will be overwhelmed and it will do you no good.
Rather focus on that which is good and divine and transfer and download those energies instead!
The Tantric World
Tantrics actively study Shakti in her myriad ways to thereby understand the mind of Shiva. In these studies of Shakti the universe has been categorized into Gods and Goddesses, each representing a unique range of frequencies/aspects.
As an example of a range of energies in the same frequency we can mention the concept of compassion. This concept is embodied in the Goddess Tara in the tantric tradition. In our modern western civilisation we do no longer understand the need to represent such a concept with a Goddess.
But deifying an energy has an important function: It enables us to identify easier with the energy as it gains a human face. It is easier to digest and to take in.
Through identifying with an object you can reach a full understanding of it as you "put yourself in its shoes".
A bija mantra is a sound which has the core vibration of the range of frequencies represented by a certain God or Goddess.
A mantra is a sound which can be repeated internally by the meditator in his worship of the Goddess and is the closest physical representation we have to the bija of the Goddess.
Tantra means "Net" or "Network" because Tantra sees the universe as a huge network of resonances between common frequencies and offers the worshipper an opportunity to log on to these networks through Goddesses and their Mantras.
In this way we can identify with any aspect of the universe through mantras and resonance.
Tantra and Music
Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.
An artwork created by an artist in a specific resonance will transport these resonances directly to the observer/listener of the art.
Music can be made for any Goddess, for any idea, for any concept. It is the responsibility of the artist to enter as best as he can into that resonance and to convey it through his music.
The inspired artist submerges himself into the Bija of an uplifted energy, impregnates his art with it and thereby transmits this to the audience. In this way the artist is like a priest who conveys the divine to those who are able to receive.
One of the main principles in the philosophy of Tantra is polarity which states that the universe consists of Shiva and Shakti. Shiva is the masculine principle (Yang) and Shakti is the feminine principle (Yin).
The masculine represents the transcendent aspects of the universe: The consciousness, the spirit, the world of ideas, while the feminine represents the imminent aspect of the universe: The material, the body, nature, our moods, life itself.
If Shiva does not have his Shakti he is but sterile ideas with no body. If Shakti does not have Shiva she is wild and chaotic and follows no essence or plan.
Shiva and Shakti dance together in a complex and beautiful dance which creates the universe, keeps it together and destroys it.
This dance exists on all levels of cosmos. For example on the cosmic scale, huge galaxies (Shakti) revolve around points in space, black holes (Shiva), singularities in space time.
Polarity exists in the couple relationship where the man embodies Shiva and the woman embodies Shakti. Polarity exists within us, our bodies, emotions and mental activity are Shakti while the spark of consciousness and awareness within us is Shiva.
Shiva is consciousness and Shakti is energy. Shiva is the mirror in which Shakti can see herself.
Resonance
Resonance is a fundamental law of the universe. The universe is pulsating energy (Shakti) covering an infinite scope of vibration.
Energy pulsating in one frequency will naturally tend towards other energy pulsating with the same frequency. This is a fundamental teaching of the theory of Resonance.
An energetic system which vibrates with a certain frequency will automatically start transferring information from another system vibrating in the same frequency.
E.g. if you are happy you will transfer data from other systems which have "happy energy". You will transfer data from all the people that ever were happy and transmitted happy energy into the universe.
Similar resonances can be transmitted through different mediums. A landscape can give you happy thoughts just as well as music and colors can.
If you listen to heavy metal for example you will join the network of all the people who listened to heavy metal and transferred their emotions into that network. You should be careful which resonances you associate with as you are transferring all the data into your being as the people that have associated with that resonance. In this case you might wind up becoming very angry and disharmonious.
Some say that you have to expose yourself to negative energies to become stronger. This may be true but only if you have the consciousness (Shiva) to go through it with awareness. Otherwise you will be overwhelmed and it will do you no good.
Rather focus on that which is good and divine and transfer and download those energies instead!
The Tantric World
Tantrics actively study Shakti in her myriad ways to thereby understand the mind of Shiva. In these studies of Shakti the universe has been categorized into Gods and Goddesses, each representing a unique range of frequencies/aspects.
As an example of a range of energies in the same frequency we can mention the concept of compassion. This concept is embodied in the Goddess Tara in the tantric tradition. In our modern western civilisation we do no longer understand the need to represent such a concept with a Goddess.
But deifying an energy has an important function: It enables us to identify easier with the energy as it gains a human face. It is easier to digest and to take in.
Through identifying with an object you can reach a full understanding of it as you "put yourself in its shoes".
A bija mantra is a sound which has the core vibration of the range of frequencies represented by a certain God or Goddess.
A mantra is a sound which can be repeated internally by the meditator in his worship of the Goddess and is the closest physical representation we have to the bija of the Goddess.
Tantra means "Net" or "Network" because Tantra sees the universe as a huge network of resonances between common frequencies and offers the worshipper an opportunity to log on to these networks through Goddesses and their Mantras.
In this way we can identify with any aspect of the universe through mantras and resonance.
Tantra and Music
Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.
An artwork created by an artist in a specific resonance will transport these resonances directly to the observer/listener of the art.
Music can be made for any Goddess, for any idea, for any concept. It is the responsibility of the artist to enter as best as he can into that resonance and to convey it through his music.
The inspired artist submerges himself into the Bija of an uplifted energy, impregnates his art with it and thereby transmits this to the audience. In this way the artist is like a priest who conveys the divine to those who are able to receive.
About the Author:
Hans Havasi is a musician and computer scientist running a yoga and tantra retreat centre in the north of Copenhagen. Together with his wife Mariah they form the music group Ibis which makes Tantric music for Goddesses.