The name tantra is made from the two words “tan” and “tra”. Tan is an abbreviation of the word tanoti and when translated from Sanskrit means to extend. Tra is an abbreviation of the word trayati and when translated from Sanskrit means liberation. So the word tantra is a combination of these two words and means to extend your consciousness to be liberated.

Swami ji’s thinking about tantra is that he wonders why the western world mainly associates tantra with sex only; this is the wrong thinking and understanding about tantra. It is also widely known in the western world that people are associating different colours with tantra such as white, red and black tantra. Colour plays no part in tantra, the origins of tantra bears no colours.

In the Sanskrit tantric scriptures there is much referencing to sexual energies in tantra. This is because sexual energy is a big part of our consciousness and does not belong to any pornographic sick sexual mentality. In the tantric scriptures sexual energy is very divine and meant for yogis and not bhogis. Tantra is for creating energy of love to liberate.

Swami Ji feels much regret towards people who are selling sex in the name of tantra.

Tantra is about working with the chakras and kundalini to achieve consciousness and this is what Swami Ji teaches in his workshops and not about tantric sex.

Tantra is about making love with the soul. Just like technology helps us to enhance and advance our lives in this modern day of living, similarly with tantra we use “yantra & mantra” which are methods we use to liberate our consciousness much faster just like technology.

Detachment is the key to liberating ourselves in tantra. Detachment means when you love someone without having to have any reason to love them, because when you love someone with a reason you’re loving with attachments. You need to have compassion, feelings and emotion in your heart to enable you to love someone without having to have a reason to love them.