HOW DOES TANTRA RELATE TO MORALITY, AND WHAT IS, ACCORDING TO IT, MORAL AND WHAT IS NOT?
A – Tantra is not occupied with what should be, but with what is. Tantra deals with facts. Tantra accepts every person on the level where he is and instructs him in the ways to connect this situation with the absolute value of life. Tantra says: “Whatever may be the cause of one’s fall, it can be the means of his rise!” So Tantra doesn’t set any moral rules. Right is what makes us come closer to the Self. Wrong is what removes us from the Self. If we feel that an act degrades us, that it makes us unhappy, that it binds and tightens us, even if it apparently doesn’t do any harm to others, or if it initially seems to do good to others, and restricts us, it is evident that we do wrong. Wrong is everything that reduces awareness. Approaching to the Self means broadening of the awareness. This is the ultimate and the supreme criteria of the right or wrong of an act.
