SO WHAT IS IT TANTRA?

What about original tantra?

Guruji: “Tantra” originally means “technical aspect”. Engineering is translated as “tantriki”.

So it was no sexual context?

Guruji: I’m talking about the word itself. Engineering literally means tantric. And any technical mechanical aspect of any technical thing is tantra. So the technical aspect of any type of spirituality you can call tantra.

And I have said it on record: somebody asked me — because of my long hairs and kundals, and I’m wearing sometimes red or black — I like it, I’m not a sannyasi — so I can remain any way dressed I like or any way undressed I like — nobody is going to stop me; so he asked me: are You a tantric?

I said: just tell me, who in India is not a tantric?

He said: how?

I simply told him — I will translate that: are you not living in a prajar tantric country? Prajar tantric means democratic country. Prajar means “all the citizens”. All citizens are tantric: democracy is called “prajar tantra”. So we are practicing tantra.

And who is our Prime Minister? Means Pradhan Mantri: the chief knower of mantras! So everybody in India is a tantric. So we are all tantrics — and that is good.

Every technical aspect — even if it is a posture — can be called “tantra”. And the more they are trying to explain it to the westerners — the more complicated it is becoming. But nobody will tell you the literal translation of the word “tantra” — they escape that.