THE TESIS OF KAMATANTRA
The term tantra can assume different meanings and trying to define it is not easy. It can means "plot" or "net", but can be also synonymous of "doctrine" or "ritual". The word tantra draws origin from the sanscrit root tan that means expansion and tra that means liberation. Tantra therefore is a whole of millenary practices to the amplification of the awareness, it is the systematic use of body and mind as physical instrument for the spiritual realization. The body and the mind are governed by the three gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas (virtue, passion, ignorance). They are the principal tools of the nature (Prakriti) to mantain the soul chained to the cycle of birth and death through the inexorable law of the karma.
In the "Mahanirvana Tantra" Shiva exposes the various techniques of meditation to Parvati, to be able to go over these influences of the nature and rise to an ampler awareness of themself, that is the basic condition to be able to win the cycle of birth and death. These techniques are among the most disparated: from the simple passenger that follows the movement of the wagon to the forms of meditation tied to the daily actions; from the mantras and rites of purification to the eternal dharma (truth).
The Aghori sadhana seems to be circumscribed to the tantric practice; actually it is ampler and also include various forms of the Yoga and different meditations coming from different schools.
Krishna Das says that among the Aghoris is spread the use of the anatomy as meditative practice and as study of the human body, a rather unique practice among the sadhus. It also says that muslim prayers are included among his more used mantras. The purifications (kriya) proper of yoga, as also Hatha Yoga make part of the tantric and Aghori practice.
As Dattratreya tells in his Avadhut Gita, everything can be a vehicle to reach the awareness of the Supreme one and of the Supreme one that is in us ; that's why the Aghoris don't have limits in the search of new practices for the spiritual realization.
