Shall we reject all tantra books in the spiritual path?

Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, have we to reject all tantra books in the spiritual path?

Swami replied:- The word Tantra means the technical clue for the success in an effort. Such clue is very important. Even for the success in spiritual effort, such clue is very significant to be known. In this way, the word Tantra is good provided you undertake the spiritual effort to develop a real bond with God. The tantra or clue in this effort is to love God truly based on the real attraction towards the divine personality of God without aspiring for any worldly desire. If you love God for the sake of fulfillment of your worldly desire, such love on God is false love due to which you cannot form a true and permanent bond with God. In such false love, our worldly desire is the goal and God is not the goal. Only in true love, God becomes the goal. This is the most important technical clue in the spiritual path, due to lack of which almost all the souls are failing in the beginning itself. If the devotee keeps God as the instrument to fulfill worldly fascinations, such a tantra is resulting in failure in the spiritual path. It is also a failure in the worldly path because the worldly desires especially in the line of sin and injustice destroy the souls as we have observed the cases of several demons. As far as the tantra books are concerned, mostly they belong to the path of demons only and human beings shall avoid such books. The books in the spiritual path like Vedas, Shastras helping to understand Vedas, Brahma Sutras, Giita, Ramaayanam, Mahaa Bharatam, Bhagavatam and other Puraanas belong to angels and the human beings shall try to go up to the position of angels and not fall down to the position of demons.

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