WHATS THE TANTRA VIEW ON SENSORY PLEASURES?
A – Most spiritual systems discourages people form pleasures, especially sensory, saying that it’s opposed to spiritual growth and to the cognition of God. It is argued with the fact that sensory pleasures take the attention out, and the essence of life is inside, hidden deep within us. Besides, sensory pleasures are temporary and therefore they don’t make a permanent happiness. Truth is that what doesn’t change. So, sensory pleasures don’t belong to the realm of truth. The attitude of Tantra is that we can’t deny the reality of experiencing temporary things. The temporary is as true as the permanent. Instead of refraining from pleasure, Tantra teaches to intensify the pleasure to the maximum extent. Maximum pleasure is bliss, and bliss is the essence of life. If we follow the pleasure, we come to more and more refined levels of creation, and eventually to the very source of all relativity. Here there is the greatest pleasure. Here we are closest to the Self. So, Tantra leads us, by wa
