Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita
Is a world renowned Tantra teacher and author. She teaches a 7 level Tantra training for couples and a variety of groups for singles. She comes once a year to Osho Nisarga in India to teach the Tantra Meditation Retreat, during which participants experience the 112 methods from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. She has been a disciple of Osho since 1973 and received a great deal of personal guidance from him on the subject of Tantra. She lived in his commune in Pune 1, Oregon and Pune 2, before moving to England in 1999, where she founded the School of Awakening.
Is it possible to practice Tantra even if I have not done any meditation?
You can enter the path of Tantra from wherever you are right now. There will be one or many Tantra meditations which will suit you. In the 112 methods of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, there are methods to suit each and every type of human being. If you have never done meditation, it will be easier to practice the method with the guidance of someone who has already had in depth experience of Tantra. The one who has experienced Tantra will help to create the right milieu in which you can receive the best possible transmission of the method.
What are benefits of Tantra in the modern day life?
Tantra respects the whole human being. Senses, emotions, mind, subtle energies, physical instinctual forces, are all included in Tantra. In our modern life we have become accustomed to cutting ourselves into parts and then getting very stressed as a result. We use our minds to the extreme and ignore our bodies, but want pleasure, so go for alcohol or drugs. In Tantra the whole human being is embraced. By bringing loving awareness to everything that we are, our natural divinity is revealed. As we begin experiencing the divine in each aspect of ourselves, this impacts greatly on our daily life. We no longer need to cut ourselves into parts. We can enjoy the amazing instrument of the mind, while knowing how to go beyond it. We can enjoy the fullness of sexual ecstasy as a diving board into the ecstasy of spiritual awakening. We can celebrate god while bringing awareness to each sensorial experience, whether it is seeing, hearing, tasting or feeling. In this way, life itself becomes the guru. Each moment is revealed as a teaching for our spiritual awakening. This brings so much joy to daily life and transforms each mundane moment into bliss. In our modern day life, Tantra is more than a blessing. It is desperately needed. just as the parched desert needs rain, so our modern lifestyle is thirsty for Tantra.
Please explain one Tantra technique which can be done by today’s busy person.
Ahh, there are so many beautiful ones… how to choose? O.K. Here is one you may enjoy.
"When listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound."
(Shiva Sutra)
This one, you can practice anytime you happen to be hearing stringed instruments playing, whether it is a live recording or on C.D. Invite the central vibration of the sound to enter your body, or you merge and melt with the sound of the instrument until you feel yourself becoming one with the music. As you become one with it, there is a central sound, which runs like a river through all the other notes. This central sound has a lot in common with the sound OM. As you continue listening, you may begin feeling that this central sound is you, that you are the strings, and that existence itself is vibrating your strings of life force energy. As you identify with the music, you will also be able to identify with the central sound, with Om. You are in essence, already one with the soundless sound of Om. This meditation helps to remember that space of your original essence through the very pleasurable medium of listening to music.
I have heard Osho say many times to become a flute on the lips of God. In this meditation we become a stringed instrument in God’s hands. Every fiber of our being becomes so sensitive that we can feel, sense and resonate with the very origin of existence through the central sound.
OSHO Speaks on Tantra
“IT IS NOT. It is the ONLY way to get out of indulgence. It is the only way to get out of sexuality. No other way has ever been helpful for man; all other ways have made man more and more sexual.
Sex has not disappeared. The religions have made it only more poisoned. It is still there -- in a poisoned form. Yes, guilt has arisen in man, but sex has not disappeared. It CANNOT disappear because it is a biological-reality. It is existential; it cannot simply disappear by repressing it. It can disappear only when you become so alien that you can release the energy encapsulated in sexuality -- not by repression is the energy released, but by understanding. And once the energy is released, out of the mud the lotus.... The lotus has to come UP out of the mud, it has to go higher, and repression takes it deeper into the mud. It goes on repressing it.
What you have done up to now, the whole humanity, is repressing sex in the mud of the unconscious. Go on repressing it, sit on top of it; don't allow it to move; kill it by fasting, by discipline, by going to a cave in the Himalayas, by moving to a monastery where a woman is not allowed. There are monasteries where a woman has never entered for hundreds of years; there are monasteries where only nuns have lived and a man has never entered. These are ways of repressing. AND they create more and more sexuality and more and more dreams of indulgence.
No, Tantra is not a way of indulgence. It is the only way of freedom. Tantra says: Whatsoever is has to be understood and through understanding changes occur of their own accord.
So listening to me or listening to Saraha, don't start thinking that Saraha is supporting your indulgence. You will be in bad shape if you accept that.
Indulgence is suicidal -- as suicidal as repression. These are the two extremes that Buddha says to avoid. One extreme is repression, the other extreme is indulgence. Just be in the middle; neither be repressive, nor be indulgent. Just be in the middle, watchful, alert, aware. It is your life! Neither does it have to be repressed, nor does it have to be wasted -- it has to be understood.
It is your life -- take care of it! love it! befriend it! If you can befriend your life, it will reveal many mysteries to you, it will take you to the very door of God.
But Tantra is not indulgence at all. The repressive people have always thought that Tantra is indulgence; their minds are so much obsessed.”
Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita 
