Santosh Chandran
Literatarot
XIV - Temperanza/Temperance:
- Mahanirvana Tantra
Santosh is 41 years of age and has worked with Tarot for 12
years of research, learning and development. He has also got some insight of
astrology, numerology, palmistry and other medium of divination. These subjects
has been a hobby from the time he was 17.Five years ago I met some like minded
friends who encouraged him to take this learning to next level. So the idea of
developing a tarot deck was formed. According to him tarot is a good medium to
connect with your inner self/inner voice. He has authored a book Discovering
Tarot...” A Tool to be in terms with Life” that contains the basic insight about
tarot, created for people as a meditative tool to create awareness of the basic
gifts that each humans are given. He has also created a deck Nature Whisper…(A
Whisper can bring hope) - a 78 card non-traditional deck merged to find the
traditional card energy in natures form with traditional and non-traditional
names and their elements on it.
Description:
The spiritual sustainer of all lives at all
levels of being has a contented understanding that we have access t o the
spiritual energy needed to bring about a change in any aspect of our life that
has slipped out of balance. The lotus is a symbol of duality and transcendence -
each petal a part of your spiritual understanding, yet the stem anchors it to
the earth and makes the growth of the lotus healthy and vigorous. That force
comes from within you, from the mundane body, the 'Me' and you can achieve many
marvelous things such as healing or using the force to help you through your
life. You are developing your spirit, the real you, the 'I', representing
the lotus as the duality of 'I' and 'Me' as one. Almost from your first birth
you have loved with the duality of the spirit living in the body shell, 'I' and
'Me'. In some ways there is a conflict between two parts of your being, yet each
needs the other. 'Me' is the source of physical demands, constantly pushing you,
wanting attention. 'Me' wants to be fed, 'Me' is tough in looking out for itself
against the world for the whole of your life. 'Me' has the opinion that if 'I'
turns its back 'Me' will become possessed and will die and 'Me' doesn't want to
die. It has the bodily appetites still to fulfill. It is all about convincing
'Me' that 'I' having its own time represents no9 threat and will actually be
beneficial to '[Me' because during 'I's trip it will be looking for things that
will help 'Me' satisfy the majority of 'Me's immediate demands and then say, its
time for 'I'. If you don't let 'I' go, 'I' will be mad at 'Me' and will in
future not satisfy 'Me's appetites. Its whole idea is to focus all the attention
into a single point in time for one instance. It is about learning to design to
raise your force and to teach you to control your body functions. As the lotus
petals open they reach upwards and outwards, gathering in the sunlight and dewy
moisture that gives them life. You too can reach out and develop spiritual
communication and absorb the psychic energy to revitalize your life.
The Indian Tantras are
numerous and constitute the Scripture (Shastra) of the Kaliyuga, Shiva
says: "For the benefit of men of the Kali age, men bereft of energy and
dependent for existence on the food they eat, the doctrine, O auspicious one! is
given". To the Tantra we must therefore look if we would understand aright both
ritual, yoga, and sadhana of all kinds, as also the general
principles of which these practices are but the objective expression.
Mahanirvana Tantra is the Tantra of Great Liberation, translated by Arthur
Avalon in1913. The card depicts the sadhak in posture with the lotus opening and
the spiritual fire being stirred inside that invokes the kundalini energy to
rise upwards. The darkness on one side and the light on the other side of the
picture present the two opposites that await unison.