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TANTRA means technique. So this treatise is a scientific one. Science is not concerned with
why, science is concerned with how. That is the basic difference between philosophy and science.
Philosophy asks, ”Why this existence?” Science asks, ”How this existence?” The moment you
ask the question, how?, method, technique, become important. Theories become meaningless;
experience becomes the center.
Tantra is science, tantra is not philosophy. To understand philosophy is easy because only your
intellect is required. If you can understand language, if you can understand concept, you can
understand philosophy. You need not change; you require no transformation. As you are, you
can understand philosophy – but not tantra.
You will need a change… rather, a mutation. Unless YOU are different tantra cannot be understood,
because tantra is not an intellectual proposition, it is an experience. Unless you are receptive, ready,
vulnerable to the experience, it is not going to come to you.
Philosophy is concerned with the mind. Your head is enough; your totality is not required. Tantra
needs you in your totality. It is a deeper challenge. You will have to be in it wholly. It is not
fragmentary. A different approach, a different attitude, a different mind to receive it is required.
Because of this, Devi is asking apparently philosophical questions. Tantra starts with Devi’s
questions. All the questions can be tackled philosophically.
Really, any question can be tackled in two ways: philosophically or totally, intellectually or
existentially. For example, if someone asks, ”What is love?” you can tackle it intellectually, you
can discuss, you can propose theories, you can argue for a particular hypothesis. You can create a
system, a doctrine – and you may not have known love at all.
To create a doctrine, experience is not needed. Really, on the contrary, the less you know the better
because then you can propose a system unhesitatingly. Only a blind man can easily define what
light is. When you do not know you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And
the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know,
the more you feel how ignorant you are. And those who are really wise, they become ignorant. They
become as simple as children, or as simple as idiot.