CANT IT BE CONCLUDED THAT, ACCORDING TO TANTRA, A WOMAN IS A MEANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN?
A – Man and women are biologically and energetically one body. They can’t survive without each other. In a Tantra relationship, this unity is maximally expressed. In a Tantra relationship man and woman are like communicating vessels. The energy initiated in one partner is immediately transmitted to the other. The awakening of energy, its rising and spreading and broadening of awareness occur at the same time in both partners. A woman is a means for the development of a man as much as a man is a means for the development of a woman. The development of the one means also the development of the other. The idea that the partner’s benefit, or generally other people’s benefit is not our own benefit is a limitation that we acquired somewhere during our growing up. Such ideas are not present in the Tantra approach to life. Growth and development of my environment definitely mean my own growth. The benefit of others is definitely my own benefit. In a Tantra relationship, this common benefit, th