WHAT IS HINDUISM?
In Marxism, as in Tantric Hinduism, revolution is seen
as essentially to do with the liberation of the human senses
and of human subjectivity – the soul – in its twin but
inseparable or ‘non-dual’ aspects – as a transcendent field of
pure awareness on the one hand and its sensual
manifestation or ‘contents’ on the other. Unfortunately,
with the exception of the tantric philosophies of Kashmir,
Hindu religious thought and practices have been
dualistically divided by those which emphasise and affirm
the truth and validity of sensual experiencing and those
which emphasise the field of pure sense-free awareness
within which they arise. In contrast to Vedantic philosophy
- which regarded sensual and bodily experiencing as
essentially unreal, Tantric philosophy emphasises that pure
awareness (Shiva) and its innate power of manifestation in
sensual phenomena (Shakti) were distinct but inseparable
aspects of the same Godhead or absolute reality known as
‘Anuttara’.
Marxist ‘dialectic phenomenology’ shares with Hindu
advaitic philosophy a recognition of this inseparability or
‘non-duality’ of the pure or ‘transcendental’ and the sensual
dimensions of awareness. It also recognises pure awareness
as having a universal, non-local or ‘field’ character – rather
than being localised in individual beings or ‘subjects’. As a
result it is a ‘subjectivism’ in which subjectivity or
awareness is not limited to or seen as the private property
of the individual ‘subject’ or ‘self’. It therefore avoids all