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CA PER III
THE SAIVA TANTRIC MYSTIC
The part that intuitive consciousness takes in. Grace as
the subject's will and Ireedom%3B devotion, the only manlies-
tation of man's free will. The ritual as the main tantric
means for subiectivisation of the object.
"The flowing together and dissolution of all things in
the ultimate identity of non-duality can be attained in different
ways: through the affective identity of universal suffering, through
sympathy, and through the theoretical identity or the non-differentiation
of subject and object" (Boris Vysheslawzeff
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"Two Ways of Redemption"
in "The Mystic Vision", editor Joseph Campbell, Princeton, 1968). Here
are someways to define the mystical experience. The first way concerns
obviously a religious experience as found in Buddhism, Christianity
etc. The theoretical identity involves mainly a contemplative approach
in a philosophycal manner as in Sankhya, etc. In my opinion, the sym-
pathetic or, more exactely, empathetic affects characterize the
tantric mystic. And among tantras, Saiva tantra has a peculiar feature
concerning the interaction between subject and object which is parti-
cularized here through a grace devotion relationship. In this relation-
ship it is not sufficient for the follower to merely approach God who
would then remain a spectator, but equally, the Lord acts on his own
will bestowing grace on the mortal.
The tantric struggles in order to obtain liberation
from transmigration (samsara) which is dominated by the inexorable law