Tantra is an advanced technology of consciousness development and represents a highly potent path to self-realization. It consists of mantras, yantras – geometric diagrams, Pujas, Yagyas and mudras – specific finger positions. Of all the above, mantra is the most important.

Tantra, as a primordial practice, has always been preserved as secret knowledge that was transmitted orally, through initiations, from the Master to the disciple who would possess the necessary level of maturity.

The first records of Tantra were created sometime in the 8th century, in Kashmir, India. Along the way, several different traditions emerged, each with its own associated methods, which have been preserved to this day. Of all of them, Naga Sadhu is the oldest uninterrupted tradition of pure knowledge.

The word “Tantra” consists of two words, “tan” and “trayate”. “Tan” means development, liberation, while “trayate” means instrument, technology. Tantra is a technology for the development and liberation of human consciousness.

There are several different types of Tantra, of which Shakti Tantra is the most potent.

Tonči and Ana received the knowledge of Shakti Tantra, in which they will give initiations after the meditator has gone through the process of the Vedic mantra tradition. Shakti Tantra consists of ten mantras and associated rituals. These mantras are called Siddha mantras. They purify the nervous system extremely quickly and awaken energy in the meditator’s body.

In order for Shakti to fully awaken and integrate and illuminate consciousness, three to four mantras are selected that resonate most with the individual.

All tantric mantra dikshas are given, as before, individually and live with the ritual of Puja that belongs to a particular mantra. The dynamics of initiations are again completely individual and depend on the maturity of the meditator.

The process described in this and in the Mantra diksha chapter represents the Mukti path of the Naga Sadhu tradition.