The Dark Side of the Net
There is a darkness inside us. This site is a doorway to the dark... if what you find passing through here disturbs you, there is no need to return. If you can resist...
DarkSideOfTheNet
Tantra
Shakti and Shâkta
by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe),
[1918]
Title Page
Chapter One: Indian Religion As Bharata Dharma
Chapter Two: Shakti: The World as Power
Chapter Three: Tantra Shastra and Veda
Chapter Four: Tantra Shastra and Veda
Chapter Five: The Tantras and the Religion of the Shaktas
Chapter Six: Shakti and Shakta
Chapter Seven: Is Shakti Force?
Chapter Eight: Cinacara (Vashishtha and Buddha)
Chapter Nine: The Tantra Shastras in China
Chapter Ten: A Tibetan Tantra
Chapter Eleven: Shakti in Taoism
Chapter Twelve: Alleged Conflicts of Shastras
Chapter Thirteen: Sarvanandanatha
Chapter Fourteen: Cit-Shakti (The Consciousness Aspect of the Universe)
Chapter Fifteen: Maya-Shakti (The Psycho-Physical Aspect of the Universe)
Chapter Sixteen: Matter and Consciousness
Chapter Seventeen: Shakti and Maya
Chapter Eighteen: Shakta Advaitavada
Chapter Nineteen: Creation as Explained in the Non-dualist Tantras
Chapter Twenty: The Indian Magna Mater
Chapter Twenty-one: Hindu Ritual
Chapter Twenty-two: Vedanta and Tantra Shastra
Chapter Twenty-three: The Psychology of Hindu Religious Ritual
Chapter Twenty-four: Shakti as Mantra (Mantramayi Shakti)
Chapter Twenty-five: Varnamala (The Garland of Letters)
Chapter Twenty-six: Shakta Sadhana (The Ordinary Ritual)
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Pañcatattva (The Secret Ritual)
Chapter Twenty-eight: Matam Rutra (The Right and Wrong Interpretation)
Chapter Twenty-nine: Kundalini Shakta (Yoga)
Chapter Thirty: Conclusions