Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c10.2

c10.2

We have said in connection with the nature and function of the Tantras that the Tāntric systems, whether Hindu or Buddhist, never profess to discover and preach any truth anew; their main function is to indicate practical methods for the realisation of truth. The Sahajiyā cult, as an offshoot of Tāntric Buddhism, lays the highest stress on the practical method for realising the Sahaja-nature of the self and of all the Dharmas. From the point of view of literature, however, we are not much interested in the details of the yogic practice of the Sahajiyās, and we, therefore, do not propose to go into all the details. We shall give here a very brief account of the main practices and also of the state of supreme bliss produced through this process of Sādhanā.