WHAT IS HINDUISM?
Yet as Urban stresses;“Surely the most fascinating and original aspect of Kaviraj’s
system is his new vision of Tantra, which is now conceived
as something far more than a quest for individual
liberation. For Kaviraj, Tantra has the potential to achieve a
collective salvation or universal liberation for humankind.”
How Kaviraj believed this liberation might come about
is summed up by the following citation from Arlene
Mazak’s dissertation on Gopinath Kaviraj’s Synthetic
Understanding of Kundalini Yoga in Relation to the Nondualistic
Hindu Tantric Traditions:
“The mahayogin who has attained his own integral Self-
realisation must look back compassionately upon all people
sunk in their collective ignorance and dedicate himself to
winning the integral Self-realisation of the entire world ...
One mahayogin, working prodigiously within one lifetime,
could eventually become identified with paramashiva as the
imperishable purusha sleeping on the supercausal ocean. If
this mahayogin could then awaken from the world-dream
while still holding the physical body, the root ignorance in
absolute subjectivity would disappear and the new kingdom
of dynamic consciousness (chaitanya) would be created...”
Here we find a trans-national and deeply esoteric expression
echo, in the late 20th century, the national-political message of
the renowned 19th century visionary mystic Ramakrishna,