Easy Way to Happiness

Polarity In Tantra

In Tantra one of the fundamental principles is the principle of polarity. The universe has a masculine principle called Shiva and a feminine principle called Shakti.

The masculine principle (yang) is beyond the material world. It is spirit and essence. It represents the world of ideas and concepts. It is the yet to be manifested, the Word. Shakti (Yin) is the world, the universe, the material. It can be seen and touched. It is life itself.

Shiva without Shakti is but a corpse, concepts with no “body”, no “life”. Shakti without Shiva is chaos and destruction. It is the universe with no master plan and no essence to keep it together.

Shiva and Shakti dance together in a complex and beautiful dance which creates the universe, keeps it together and destroys it.

This dance exists on all levels of cosmos. For example on the cosmic scale, huge galaxies (Shakti) revolve around points in space, black holes (Shiva), singularities in space time.

The dance between Shiva and Shakti can be seen in the couple relationship and even in our own beings as the interplay between our awareness and our bodies.

More poetically put, Shiva represents consciousness, while Shakti is the energy. Shakti gets to know herself by mirroring herself in Shiva.

The Theory Of Resonance

Another fundamental tantric teaching is the law of Resonance. As we stated above, the whole visible universe is Shakti, who is vibrating pulsating energy split up in an infinite range of frequencies.

Resonance states that energy which pulsates with the same wave length will attract other energies vibrating with the same frequency (the law of attraction).

A system which pulsates with a specific frequency can transfer data from another system vibrating with the same frequency.

Just to make an example: If you are a happy person you will transfer data from all the other people in the world who have transmitted happiness energies. All energies which have been emitted exist out there in the universe and make up a network of the “happy energies”. This is a network you automatically join and start transferring from when you are happy!

Music, colors, landscapes etc can have a common resonance even though they are different mediums for that resonance. A landscape can be sad, music can have a sad tone, a color may be sad etc. If we want to become happy we should listen to music that is happy.

We should therefor be very careful with which resonances we allow into our being. Listening to heavy metal for instance will put you in resonance with all the people that ever listened to heavy metal and as experiments with plants show, it is not an energy which is very conducive to life.

Many people who delve into negative energies claim that it is a part of life, and if you do not indulge in them you will not know how to handle them. Unless you have a high state of consciousness which can witness these energies from a very detached position you do yourself no good by immersing yourself in dark energy.

You should rather put your attention on the good beneficial energies!

The Tantric World

Tantrics study and worship Shakti in order to get to the Shiva (essence) behind the Shakti. In their studies they have categorized the world into a large family of Gods and Goddesses. Each deity has a specific vibration or resonance and represents a certain aspect of the universe.

For example, the energy of beauty encompass certain frequencies. We in the west would not need to have these energies represented by a Goddess. We would just call it beauty.

There is though, a very important reason for deifying a concept because it makes it much more personal. By making something into a Goddess you give it a human face and you are able to “take it in” and identify with it.

Only through identification with an object can you reach a complete understanding of it as you put yourself completely in its place.

Each Goddess has a Bija, a vibration which is the essence of that Goddess/energy. This Bija exists within the mantra of that Goddess.

This sound or mantra is repeated silently inside the worshipper of the Goddess.

The word Tantra in fact means “Network” as the universe consists of a huge range of energies interconnected to each other. Tantra offers us the opportunity of going into resonance processes with all these energies through its pantheon of Gods and Goddesses and their associated Mantras.

In this way we can identify with any aspect of the universe through mantras and resonance.

Tantra and Music

Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.

The artist who enters into a specific resonance composes his music in that resonance and the listener who has the resonance awakened in himself will easily identify with that music.

Music can be made for any Goddess, for any idea, for any concept. It is the responsibility of the artist to enter as best as he can into that resonance and to convey it through his music.

The inspired artist submerges himself into the Bija of an uplifted energy, impregnates his art with it and thereby transmits this to the audience. In this way the artist is like a priest who conveys the divine to those who are able to receive.

Hans Havasi is a musician and computer scientist who leads a yoga and tantra retreat centre in the north of Copenhagen. Together with his loved one Mariah they form the music group Ibis which creates Tantric music for Goddesses.