> > The Tantras were composed during the Gupta Age. > > Vaj wrote: > The tantras pre-date written history, > How would you be knowing anything about anything before written history in India in an age millions of years ago?
You need to get some smarts, Vaj, there were no tantras before written history, because there was no written history before the invention of writing. Before written history is pre-history. History in India begins with the historical Buddha. Writing in India dates from the 2nd century B.C. > > P.S. Have you ever considered using a standard Sanskrit > > lexicon? > > > If you look at the first line of your aforementioned dictionary > entry you would have found the relevant definition: > > "the best or finest or prime part of anything, essence" > That's what I said: sexual fluid and nectar of mushroom - the prime part, the essence of life. It's in the tantras. Have you ever read a tantra, Vaj? > And it would have been appropriate to include the entire > entry: > So, where does it say in the dictionary say that rasa means prana - life force? In fact, there is no such thing as prana - that's part of an Indian myth. There is no "force" that exists outside existence that enters into human life and causes change at will - that's magic. There is cause and effect; sexual activity involving rasa: one thing leads to another. That's tantra in a nutshell. Never heard of anyone getting pregnant smelling someone else's bad breath. No kundalini snake, no magic breath, just rasa and activity alternated with rest. It's that simple. > > Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: > > > > 1 rasa m. the sap or juice of plants. Mercury, quicksilver > > (sometimes regarded as a kind of quintessence of the human > > body, else where as the seminal fluid of Shiva; semen virile > > RV. i, 105, 2. > > > > http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
