"From being interested tantra moves forward to being involved. Yoga would naturally move from intending to attending, naming it Dhyana as its seventh step. Now what is the difference between attending and getting involved?" - I asked Eva as I told her what context I was asking this in.
"I think the two perspectives are different, rather opposite to each other. If you are involved, you don't need attending to it as you have become a part and parcel of the whole thing that it is. You yourself have become it. But if you have not become one, you are still holding your identity separate and hence you will have to attend to it in order to listen to it. In other words you will have to make an effort to do so that will not be spontaneous whatever else it might be. Have I got it right?" - She was looking at my face with a great curiosity.
"Exact! That's what yoga wants to turn you into - a master of your mind through what it calls Dhyana. Tantra doesn't believe in master and servant relationship. It only deals with interaction and no relation at all. So when the latter wants you to become spontaneously one with your mind, the former makes Herculean efforts at mastering it through attentive concentration." - I elaborated the point further.
"The difference is basically like between a democracy and a dictatorship. Isn't it?" - She smiled as she gave this analogy.
"I'll rather say it's fraternity more than democracy; and that, an antagonistic war more than dictatorship. The two contradicting parts of our mind are at war with each other and whoever wins, it further strengthens our ego only." - I expressed my analogy for the two.
"It's the difference between love and war. I love love, I hate war." - She was dreaming.
"I love you." - I shadowed her face with mine to play the game of life with love between the two lonely souls under the vast open sky of Lahaul and Spiti.
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